Peter Attia· MD
overall in terms of total amount of sleep ghb or xyrem does seem to actually increase the amount of slow wave sleep time that is scored by a technician and i'm being very technical in my language because i want to be precise in this regard however if you look at the electrical signature of that sleep which is now independent so when a sleep technician scores a trace they have a set of criteria that they use to define which stage of sleep each 30-second epoch of time each 30-second window of time there is throughout that eight-hour period and they scroll through a 30-second page by 30 seconds and they score each of those they add them all up that's what gives your sleep profile and sleep score so using the criteria that we've had now for about 60 or 70 years they will score more of your sleep as being quote unquote slow wave sleep when you are on ghb because it seems to produce what looks like slow brainwave activity and by that criteria they have to score it as such but if you unbuckle yourself from this kind of standard sleep scoring criteria and a human and you just let an algorithm process the electrical signature of that sleep it now does not look like naturalistic sleep