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Boutique Sleep Telehealth Services including home sleep apnea testing, actigraphy, CPAP help, CBT-I, sleep wellness and optimization plans, and behavioral sleep medicine.

04/09/2026

📚My Personal Sleep Story

-I know some of you followed my MARPE journey in 2024 but I haven’t talked as much about living my entire childhood with an undiagnosed sleep disorder. And how transformational it was finally have it recognized, of all places and of all times doing post graduate training in the Stanford Sleep Clinic.

-Far too many people living with a sleep disorder get labeled as having depression, anxiety, post-partum anxiety/depression, headaches, chronic fatigue, ADHD or even called a GREAT SLEEPER due to lack of education and knowledge around DIAGNOSING AND TREATING SLEEP DISORDERS!

04/08/2026

💊SLEEPING PILLS are more common than you think and we need to talk about it!

‼️A nation this medicated for sleep is telling us something

📉In 2020, 8.4% of U.S. adults took sleep medication most days or every day. The numbers were higher in women, higher with age, and higher in some lower-income groups. The scale of medication use should make us pause. This is not just about insomnia. It is about the undiagnosed conditions being missed!

-There’s a lot of stigma and shame about sleeping pills and I’m here to tell you this a problem we can fix, we are not waiting for a cure. We have the technology and knowledge to solve this problem so let’s change it.

Reuben C, Elgaddal N, Black LI. Sleep medication use in adults aged 18 and over: United States, 2020. NCHS Data Brief No. 462. National Center for Health Statistics; 2023.

04/06/2026

⏪Rebound insomnia is one of the biggest reasons people feel trapped by sleep medications.

-Not because the medication was “working so well” for sleep itself, but because when you stop it, your sleep can temporarily get worse than it was before.

That rebound can look like:
-worsening difficulty falling asleep, more nighttime awakenings, lighter sleep, anxiety about bedtime, and the terrifying feeling that your body has “forgotten” how to sleep on its own.

-But that does not mean you are broken.

-And it does not mean you need the medication forever.

-In many cases, it means your brain and body are reacting to the sudden absence of a substance they adapted to. That reaction can feel so intense it can feel like a medical emergency.

-This is why people need better education around sleep meds:
withdrawal insomnia is often mistaken for proof that the medication is necessary.

04/04/2026

💥Home Sleep Testing in Kids

-Last week I was in a conference sitting next to Maida Chen the head of the Seattle Children’s Sleep Center and we were discussing the challenges we face in our region due to extremely long wait times for pediatric in lab sleep studies (polysomnography or PSG).

-A new Canadian guideline reinforces that polysomnography remains the standard for diagnosing pediatric OSA but home sleep apnea testing may have a role in otherwise healthy children over age 5 when access to PSG is effectively absent.

-This is the tension in pediatric sleep medicine: access matters, convenience matters, family burden matters. Which is one of the reason I started using home sleep testing in children during the pandemic when access to testing was essentially zero due to sleep labs being closed. Waiting over one year to diagnose and evaluate a child has long term consequences.

-Dr. Chen and I agreed that we need better, more accessible home-based testing for children. In the meantime, I continue to feel home sleep testing is a great options when patients and families are counseled on the limitations of using it and referred on for PSG when relevant.

Ref: MacLean JE, et al. Can J Respir Crit Care Sleep Med. 2026.

04/03/2026

🧬i am joining a panel of physicians and scientists to celebrate the opening of Next Health Bellevue for a live conversation on where health is headed next across SLEEP, brain health, human performance, and longevity.

📍 W Hotel Bellevue, WA

🗓 April 15 | 4–6 PM

These are the conversations shaping what comes NEXT!

Austin Perlmutter, MD
Tommy Wood
Kelly Casperson, MD➖Urologist
Darshan Shah, MD

04/02/2026

🦉Not everyone is meant to feel their best at 5 AM.

-Being an “owl” chronotype is not laziness, lack of discipline, or a character flaw. It may reflect a real biologic wiring that overlaps with neurodiversity, sensory patterns, attention differences, creative rhythms, and how the brain naturally regulates alertness.

-We have built a world that moralizes mornings and treats early rising like virtue. But health is not about forcing every nervous system into the same shape.

-Sometimes the goal is not to “fix” your timing.

-Sometimes the goal is self-acceptance.

-Sometimes the goal is accommodation.

That might mean:

-honoring later peak focus

-protecting late-night creative windows and asking for accommodations at work

-building a slower morning

-adjusting light exposure strategically

-or stopping the shame spiral that comes from comparing your brain to someone else’s.

-Sleep medicine should make more room for this conversation.

04/01/2026

📚Sleep education is wildly inadequate!

‼️We teach people about food, fitness, and skincare.
But sleep? One of the most important biological functions in the body?

-Barely covered. And it shows. People grow up thinking:

🚫being tired all the time is normal

🚫sleeping pills create real sleep

🚫more time in bed should fix insomnia

🚫snoring is harmless

🚫poor sleep is somehow a personal failure

👩🏻‍⚕️It’s not just frustrating. It’s a real health literacy gap.
When people don’t understand sleep, they miss red flags, normalize exhaustion, delay diagnoses, and blame themselves for things they were never taught to recognize.

‼️Sleep education should start early.

💥It should be taught in schools.

💥It should have a larger role in medical education.

💥And it should be standard in primary care training.

💥We do not need more sleep hacks.

💥We need better sleep education💯

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03/31/2026

👩🏻Women don’t always “look” like the textbook sleep apnea patient.

-And that’s exactly why so many get missed (or some even flat out refuse testing)

-Not every woman with OSA is loudly snoring, overweight, and falling asleep at work.

Sometimes it looks more like:

-insomnia
-anxiety
-depression
-exhaustion
-fatigue
-“poor sleep” that never gets explained

-Too many women are treated for the symptom pattern without anyone asking a more important question:

💥Could this actually be obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)?

-Here’s an actual sleep study from a patient who was referred to me for CBTI for chronic insomnia. Incidentally she also had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation but was still never referred for screening!

03/30/2026

👩🏻When someone says, “I can’t sleep,” the real question is: WHY?

-Insomnia can be a symptom of many different underlying issues—stress, anxiety, circadian misalignment, sleep apnea, restless legs, medication effects, perimenopause, depression, chronic pain, relational issues, or more than one variable.

-That matters because treatment depends on the cause.

-Not every sleepless night should be met with one size fits all advice—or a sleeping pill prescription.

- If we treat insomnia as a single diagnosis instead of a clue, we risk missing the bigger picture.

💥Better sleep starts with better understanding by asking what is the insomnia trying to tell us?

03/27/2026

😴REAL TALK > Sleep and Longevity

-Today I had the absolutely pleasure of seeing my dear friend and colleague teach a packed room of Dental Colleagues about the ULTIMATE SLEEP HACK FOR LONGEVITY>>>

-> Early intervention shaping healthy craniofacial development. Specifically phase 1 orthodontics in kids before age 7.

-I also had the pleasure of sitting next to Maida Chen who heads up the program at Seattle Children’s Hospital sleep center to trade notes on home testing in kids, iron infusions, early interventions.

-We don’t talk enough about airway, breathing, and the medical aspects of sleep. These remain abstract concepts because many of the most established voices in the digital media community are research, non clinical and non MD voices.

-Working alongside colleagues like who opens our minds to new ways of thinking, who want to collaborate with other sleep MDs, and educate on a national stage are a highlight of my career.

-Thank you for making a difference in my sleep journey, my child’s health, and many of my patients! You’re an absolute ROCKSTAR in every. single. way!

03/27/2026

💊Is Taking Benadryl for Sleep Benign?

-I tell me patients it depends why you’re taking it. Let’s figure that out and then revisit the risk reward ratio. Too often people reach for solutions without trying to uncover what is at the heart of the matter (and the actual diagnosis).

-Anticholinergic burden has long been discussed in the context of cognition, but this 2026 population-based study suggests the conversation may need to include the cardiovascular system too. Higher cumulative exposure was associated with a graded increase in incident cardiovascular events — with especially strong associations for heart failure and arrhythmias. Important caveat: this was observational, so it cannot prove causation. Still, it’s a strong reminder to think beyond whether a medication “works” and ask what its broader physiological tradeoffs may be.

Ref: Zhu N, Eriksdotter M, Shahim B, et al. Anticholinergic drug burden and incident cardiovascular events: a population-based study. BMC Medicine. 2026.

03/26/2026

🦠Viral Sleep Trends—What’s Worth It (and What’s Not)

I’m a sleep neurologist and expert in behavioral sleep medicine. Here’s how I think about what’s trending:

✅Cooling pads: helpful for temperature-sensitive sleepers

✅Nasal strips: low-risk, often overlooked airflow support

✅Sleep trackers: useful tools when interpreted correctly

The problem isn’t the trends, it’s how easily they turn into noise, confusion, and overcorrection.

-Sleep doesn’t need more optimization, it needs better interpretation within clinical context.

-Which trends have you tried—and did it actually help?

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