Dr. Peter Attia

Make time for them.

Make time for them.

So this could be a valuable technique even absent insomnia. Totally. Totally.

So this could be a valuable technique even absent insomnia. Totally. Totally.

Yeah. I try to be uncomfortably cold when I get into bed. Right, but your hands and your feet? No, generally not. I mean, it's just my body. But again, I'm using a device to cool me as well.

Yeah. I try to be uncomfortably cold when I get into bed. Right, but your hands and your feet? No, generally not. I mean, it's just my body. But again, I'm using a device to cool me as well.

I want to kind of go into many more of these because I know this is the exciting stuff that people are interested to hear about. I do want to take one step back and just make sure we understand what constitutes cognitive behavioral therapy before we even get into cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.

I want to kind of go into many more of these because I know this is the exciting stuff that people are interested to hear about. I do want to take one step back and just make sure we understand what constitutes cognitive behavioral therapy before we even get into cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.

So we've had a podcast where we talked about dialectical behavioral therapy, DBT, but we haven't covered CBT. Can you give us a little bit of the tapestry of what defines it and why it, of course, then has this additional subset of treatment for insomnia?

So we've had a podcast where we talked about dialectical behavioral therapy, DBT, but we haven't covered CBT. Can you give us a little bit of the tapestry of what defines it and why it, of course, then has this additional subset of treatment for insomnia?

Is that kind of running the triangle in the other direction? So you change behavior to change thought, you change thought to change feeling?

Is that kind of running the triangle in the other direction? So you change behavior to change thought, you change thought to change feeling?

And tell me a little bit about the history of CBTI specifically. When did the idea come to existence in a way that's been packaged more or less the way it is today?

And tell me a little bit about the history of CBTI specifically. When did the idea come to existence in a way that's been packaged more or less the way it is today?

And these men were struggling with anxiety or actual insomnia?

And these men were struggling with anxiety or actual insomnia?

And to be clear, just going back to this study, was there a belief or were some of these guys studying in bed?

And to be clear, just going back to this study, was there a belief or were some of these guys studying in bed?

Yeah, I want to talk about both of those a little bit more. I want to bracket sleep hygiene and come back to it because I think, again, the temperature and all that light stuff, we shouldn't gloss over that even though it's easy to take for granted. And I know that many people listening to this podcast will have heard other content where we talk about it, but I'd love to have it all in one place.

Yeah, I want to talk about both of those a little bit more. I want to bracket sleep hygiene and come back to it because I think, again, the temperature and all that light stuff, we shouldn't gloss over that even though it's easy to take for granted. And I know that many people listening to this podcast will have heard other content where we talk about it, but I'd love to have it all in one place.