Connection by Kristine Klussman

Author:Kristine Klussman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683647164
Publisher: Sounds True, Inc.
Published: 2021-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

SLEEP: BEST PRACTICES

During my nine years as a hospital-based psychologist, I had the opportunity to observe and work with nearly every type of psychiatric disorder, usually in combination with severe medical illnesses. It was a wild ride that often felt like I was drinking from the firehose of knowledge every day. I was lucky enough to be part of some of the brightest and most effective multidisciplinary treatment teams I’d ever encountered.

Each morning, we would conduct rounds on our in-patients together and have lengthy team meetings afterward where we would discuss their diagnoses and the best approaches to treatment. The beauty of these multidisciplinary teams was that we often had up to twelve uniquely trained specialists in the room, all comparing notes from their specific areas of expertise. Whether we were discussing a dual-diagnosis organ-transplant patient, a mother with postpartum psychosis, a schizophrenic who thought he was the lord Jesus Christ, or a depressed teenage girl who was cutting herself, it never ceased to amaze me how important and predictive quality sleep was for each and every person’s recovery or stabilization.

It was often the first question we asked people when visiting their room: “How was your sleep?” If a patient’s sleep was not stabilized, we often had difficulty pinpointing what was going on since poor sleep can mimic so many other problematic conditions.

The same is true for human beings who aren’t in psychiatric hospitals. If we don’t get adequate sleep, all bets are off. Well-being and good health literally start and end with sleep.

USC Medical Center’s Dr. David Agus is widely considered one of the most brilliant medical minds of our time. Although controversial, his refreshing and disrupting approach to modern medicine has people like Al Gore, Dr. Dean Ornish, Marc Benioff, and many Fortune 500 CEOs backing him. His unrelenting quest to cure cancer and conquer proteomics (the study of human proteins, their purpose, structure, and partnerships to better understand cellular processes, which may be the key to ending all illness), puts Agus at the forefront of breakthrough medical advances.

At a lecture promoting his book A Short Guide to a Long Life, Agus discussed the key health habits that can drastically reduce your chances of contracting common major illnesses and give you the best odds of exceeding the standard life expectancy. One of the biggest keys is sleep.

In his book The End of Illness, he writes:

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