Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
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So the core of it, it's not at like a talking therapy.
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It's much more that the the behavioral aspect of we're gonna restrict the time you're in the bedroom, that will change your cognition.
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You're gonna change your behaviour and then you're gonna change your relationship with that sleep space.
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What you're outlining makes a lot of sense.
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I don't think it's intuitively obvious, so it's very, very helpful to kind of outline it for listeners.
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But it seems straightforward enough that it's surprising how many people struggle.
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Like what are the barriers to doing what you're saying?
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On the on the surface it seems like you go, sort your bedroom out, sort your waking up time out, you know, buy an alarm clock, and you should be well on the way.
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So why is it so difficult to take that advice?
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Sophie, there are a massive number of medications available that will put us to sleep.
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There's sedatives, melatonin.
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Do drugs have a role in knocking us out if we're really desperate to get some sleep?
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Do you ever prescribe a sleeping pill?
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There are many more sleeping disorders which I think many people won't have heard of.
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We wanted to touch on the parasomnias, because they're well known, but I think there's a lot of mythology, I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about them.
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Can you walk us through
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What they are, how they work.
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Where do they come from and how do we manage them?
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And should people worry about them?
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So we've got the non-rem ones, deep sleep, sleepwalking, and is sleep terror disorder, is that also a non-rem one?
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