Dr. Michael Grandner

But the concept of sleep restriction therapy, which I hate calling it that because it's not about the restriction.

And that's the thing.

Sleep restriction could be part of it, but it isn't always.

The idea is, let's say you're spending eight hours in bed, but six hours of sleep.

We know you physically can sleep six hours.

Okay, let me give you six hours time in bed.

See if you can fill it.

Let's get you to the point where you can fill it.

And then we'll slowly increase it from there.

Actually, sleep restriction therapy has more increasing of sleep than decreasing.

But there's that decrease at first.

The way I explain it to people is this.

It's actually not super complicated.

Let's say you're trying to eat your vegetables and you've got a kid who's not eating their broccoli, right?

And you put 20 pieces of broccoli on their plate and they're not eating.

They can eat one or two and then they're like, oh, I hate broccoli, blah, blah, blah.

then you say, okay, I need you to learn how to eat your broccoli.

Tonight, I'm going to give you

pieces of broccoli.

Can you, I know you can eat that because that's what you've been eating every day.