Dr. Rhonda Patrick

data points or clinical features do you kind of look at to distinguish whether or not this person actually has insomnia versus all the other things that could just be causing poor sleep?

And how do you just determine what is the underlying cause of someone's insomnia?

I would imagine hyperaroused nervous system being one of them, but there's probably others.

Can you give an example of that?

So let's say, you know, someone has work-related stress or something, right?

And maybe it's a project-related or maybe there's emotional-related stress from a relationship and it does eventually kind of get better and yet they're still kind of having problems falling asleep.

Now, what would be the conditioned stimulus?

Wow.

You've just explained insomnia to me in a way that no one ever has.

And it's like just clicked.

And I'm like, this is... That's what happens.

What happens.

Right.

And so now I completely understand this concept of stimulus control.

Right.

So...

Let's talk about CBTI, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.

And obviously there's lots of components to it.

One of them being the stimulus control, which now is like making so much more sense to me.

But let's talk about what that is, why it does work so well for people.