Broadcast Retirement Network’s Jeffrey Snyder discusses ways to improve sleep with Restful Sleep MD’s Funke Afolabi-Brown, MD.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

This morning on BRN, practical strategies to improve sleep for the whole family. And joining me now to discuss this, Dr. Funke Afolabe-Brown is with Restful Sleep MD. Dr. Brown, great to see you. Thanks for joining us on the program this morning.

Funke Afolabe-Brown, MD, Restful Sleep MD

Thank you so much for having me.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

And we’re going to talk about strategies for improving sleep for the entire family, but let’s just, as a baseline, I was sharing with you in the green room, I don’t sleep very well. In general, how are we doing, and I say Americans, those of us around the world, doing in getting sleep?

Funke Afolabe-Brown, MD, Restful Sleep MD

I would say there’s room for improvement, and that’s because I am very positive and optimistic. The CDC actually declared that insufficient sleep is a global epidemic. So this is something that we are not getting enough of in the US, all over the world.

So the data shows that about maybe 35% odd patient people get enough sleep. So you can imagine there’s a large number of people that are not getting sufficient sleep. So there’s definitely room for improvement.

And in addition to just the basics of optimizing and prioritizing sleep, there’s so many people that have sleep disorders, and these sleep disorders are, they go undiagnosed for years, and they have a huge impact on our overall health and wellness.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

And are there certain, so I’m holding my phone up, I was going to show you that, I think this is one of the biggest culprits to not getting sleep, and I’m sure you probably have some thoughts on that, but are there certain demographics within the population, young, mature, men, women, does it run the gamut in terms of those that are inflicted? So I remember sleeping very well when I was a young boy. I had no worries in the world, at least I didn’t think I did.

Now that I’m an older, mature man, I’ve got a lot of worries. So does it run across all demographics?

Funke Afolabe-Brown, MD, Restful Sleep MD

Yeah, that’s a great question. It turns out, yes, it actually does. So we know that about 58% of even middle school kids are not getting sufficient sleep.

About 74% of high school kids are not getting enough sleep. And when it comes to adults, I mean, depending on where you’re looking at the literature, close to 40% of people in their 40s are probably really short on sleep. So you can tell that it really does cut across all age groups, from young all the way to old.

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