Idiopathic Hypersomnia
Hi! I would like to hear your point of view on idiopathic hypersomnia diagnosis, treatment, and current research. It is a difficult diagnosis to have as a patient. From a clinical standpoint, they just want to prescribe everyone sodium oxybate, which I have a hard time getting on board with. Sleep disorders are extremely hard to navigate, even as a nurse practitioner! Another good note would be how patients can get involved in research/clinical trials! Thanks!
Pain management and Studies on Adrenaline Muting or Eliminating Pain
I have been an avid listener on spotify but just joined as a premium member. First of all I owe you a big thanks for helping me make significant changes in my life. I am a 57 year old man, a father of four and a former CEO of a decent sized company and now a business owner that primarily employs 700 plus 18 to 30 year olds. Since listening to your podcasts I have made significant personal changes in workouts, started doing regular cold plunges, focused on sleep, eating better and drinking far less alcohol. I feel and look so much better and most of which is directly attributed to your podcasts and my desire to live a full and active life. The second huge benefit is I can bring many of your teachings to the people in my company. We have an entire business built on helping young people grow and develop. Let's face it, many of them are very lost socially, physically and emotionally. Just wanted to send a thank you but also had a question and/or suggestion. All my kids were competitive athletes and you had an episode on pain that listened to.. During this episode you touched on that there were no good studies on adrenaline impact on pain. I would tell you absolutely there is some sort of pain blocking during times of extreme stress/ adrenaline. Here is my personal proof but I thought you could turn it into a study. My oldest son had a labrum tear in his shoulder as a quarterback. Very painful to practice and throw the ball so he did not practice except one day a week during his last college football season. During the game he described zero recognition of the pain while throwing yet so painful unable to throw well during practice. Second example is that my other son in high school broke his thumb on his throwing hand as a QB. Very painful to throw in practice but no pain at all during games for almost half of the season while playing with the injury. Both said after the first hit in the game all recognition of the pain was gone until the locker room after the game ended. My thought was to find injuries in sports that allowed athletes to continue to play but they could describe the pain levels in stressful/ Games and not stressful/practice situations to help understand potentially the impact on the body perception or feeling of that pain. It seems like you could find a lot of athletes playing through pain and have some reasonable comparisons for the study Thanks again. I tell everyone about your great content Mike Bornhorst
Does use of language tell our body a story?
I normally resonate with nearly everything you say and have taken various forms of advise from sunlight exposure to supplements with great results. I am very curious and frankly surprised at some of the use of language in a recent podcast. It is in reference to the words "making me feel" and "making me feel safe." I have a 5 year old and teach him that feelings come from within. I teach him to say: I am observing a situation. I feel x, y, z. As well as safety as a state of being, not a feeling. Do you see a benefit of creating the distinction between observation and ownership of subsequent feeling (I feel x, y, z) vs. articulations of the external causing the feeling (x,y,z made me feel)?