Peter Attia· MD
one of the Hallmarks of cognitive papal therapy for insomnia is your bed is only for sleep there are two things you're allowed to do bed I always tell my patients here two things that you can do at Bed are sex and sleep
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
one of the Hallmarks of cognitive papal therapy for insomnia is your bed is only for sleep there are two things you're allowed to do bed I always tell my patients here two things that you can do at Bed are sex and sleep
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Stimulus control means limiting the bed to only two things, sleep and sex. Everything else happens somewhere else. That means no phone. That means no reading. And I mean, while those are obvious, the other thing she made a really clear point about was no worrying.
And also the stimulus control, don't do anything in bed that isn't sleep or sex.
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