Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Sleep Doctor Reveals Fear Overrides Ambien and All Pharmaceutical Sleep Interventions
Lewis Howes School of Greatness
The Sleep Doctor's 5 Rules for Your Best Night Ever | Dr. Michael Breus
What was said
"If you were a patient of mine and you walked in and let's say you were taking 10 milligrams of Ambien, I could utter one sentence looking at your medical chart and I could make that Ambien not work. I could just turn to you and say, you have cancer. Boom. You ain't sleeping that night. This is the most powerful drug in the world is your brain."
Dr. Michael Breus revealed that psychological fear can completely override pharmaceutical sleep aids including Ambien, demonstrating that the brain is more powerful than any drug. He explained that most sleep issues have an anxiety component and that emotional states can override pharmaceutical interventions entirely, fundamentally challenging the primacy of medication in sleep treatment.
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- Programme
- Lewis Howes School of Greatness
- Episode
- The Sleep Doctor's 5 Rules for Your Best Night Ever | Dr. Michael Breus
- Clip time
- 5:13
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