Dr. Michael Grandner

Yeah.

I actually see this not uncommonly where people have trouble with sleep because a medication that is perfectly acceptable to prescribe in the evening is being taken in the evening.

It's just you're sensitive to it in a different way.

So I see this a lot.

So first see if there's something chemical or if you're eating, you're eating a food that's too metabolically active, too close to bedtime or not.

you caffeinated too late.

Yes, it was four hours ago, but it was still too late and it's still hanging around in there or something like that.

Or you have something, something active going on.

So like, do you need, is there, is there a pain issue going on?

Is there some inflammation going on?

Is your mattress 10 years old and needs to get replaced?

And it's just uncomfortable and it's creating too much activation during the night.

You know, there's, there's all kinds of reasons for that.

And then if not,

What's your relaxation wind down routine like?

Why is your heart, are you exercising too late?

And your, and your, and your core body temperature and your heart rate is, is high because of what, what you happen to be doing where it's not dropping.

Why not?

Um, or maybe you need to introduce some more relaxation techniques into the evening, whether it's physical relaxation, like breathing exercises or stretching or yoga stuff or, or mental stuff like, you know, there's

imagery exercises and other stuff and body scans or mindfulness exercises and meditation or like a mind body approach like like a huge fan of progressive muscle relaxation um where especially done right involves both um maybe you're maybe you're going to bed too hot and you need to you need to chill out a little bit first whether it's mentally physically or both