Dr. Michael Breus

I don't have a problem with sleeping pills as long as they're appropriate.

There are so many people, though, that are out there on, and they've been on pill for 20 years.

I just don't think that's appropriate.

You applied, I think, to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and couldn't get in.

It was the number one sports psychology place in the country.

I couldn't get in, but they had a sleep track as an extra position.

And so I worked my way through University of Georgia, which is where I got my PhD in the Department of Electric Physiology.

So I know how to work an EKG machine, an EEG machine, and they use the same machines in sleep.

So I said, I'm going to sell myself

as a sleep guy, and then I'll just transfer as soon as I got there.

Dude, I sold myself as a sleep guy.

I got there.

I asked them if I could transfer.

They said, no, you have to stay in the sleep lab for the first six months.

They said, then you can go anywhere you want.

I fell in love with clinical sleep medicine.

Let me tell you why.

I help people this fast.

It's unbelievable.

Dude, you change somebody's sleep, you change their life.