Awakened Sleep: Why a 5,000-Year-Old Science Says You've Been Sleeping Wrong — and What It's Costing You + How to Create Conditions for Epic Rest
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Michael Trainer discusses the impact of sleep and technology on health with Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar and Dr. Sheila Patel.
What if the loneliness epidemic doesn't start in our relationships — but in the hours we spend alone in the dark? In this profound conversation, Michael Trainer sits down with Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar — the former personal physician to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and one of the world's foremost Ayurvedic physicians — and Dr. Sheila Patel, a pioneer bridging integrative medicine with Vedic wisdom, to explore their groundbreaking new book Awakened Sleep. What begins as a conversation about sleep science becomes a revelation about consciousness, technology-induced loneliness, and why the most powerful hours of your biology are the ones you've been ignoring. Dr. Suhas introduces the startling concept of orthosomnia — a new syndrome affecting 40% of Gen Z adults who have developed sleep anxiety from the very devices designed to optimize their rest. He names email apnea — the phenomenon of people literally holding their breath while reading texts. And he shares the Vedic teaching that reframes everything: "We are doing a dress rehearsal of dying every night." Dr. Sheila offers the science behind the wisdom — how Stanford's AI models can now predict 130+ health conditions from sleep data alone…
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