By Jenn Sinrich, Aug 29, 2023

When choosing any mattress, your weight and preferred sleeping position are essential considerations. “Generally speaking, lighter people will do better with a softer mattress, while heavier people will do better with more firmness,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, double board-certified in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “Side sleepers generally need a mattress that is more soft, while stomach and back sleepers do better with a mattress that is more firm.”

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By Aaron L. Gravely, MD, July 14, 2023

“L-theanine has been shown to improve sleep quality not by being a sedative, but by reducing anxiety (i.e. by a calming, non-drowsy effect), which in turn promotes better sleep,” explains Dr. Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double board-certified physician in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine and the founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “It has been shown to increase the activity of alpha brain waves, which are associated with feelings of calm, creativity and improved focus. L-theanine is believed to work by calming the excitatory neurotransmitter, glutamate, while enhancing the activity of GABA—the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.”

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By Vance Voetberg, June 29 2023

According to the Academy of Sleep and Wellness, 60 to 75 percent of adults experience recurring dreams. Recurring dreams can often be attributed to “the mind working through current stress, processing a past event, or preparing for a future event,” Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a psychiatrist specializing in sleep health, told The Epoch Times. “Freud called this ‘day residue’ or the tendency to dream at night, as a continuation of thoughts or concerns from the daytime,” he added. Therefore, when we experience repetitive dreams, it could indicate that the mind is attempting to compartmentalize stress and trauma, allowing for processing and resolution.

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By Lynne Eldridge, MD, June 29, 2023

This sense of impending doom is often fueled by the fact that the mind is a “meaning-making machine” that seeks patterns and attributes meaning to what we are experiencing, explains Alex Dimitriu, MD, double board-certified in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. This can be useful in many cases but can also lead to mistakes and incorrect predictions. When people predict the wrong outcome, it can create what Dr. Dimitriu refers to as an emotional ‘hallucination,’ or delusion, a strongly held false belief. 

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By Claire Wolters , June 20, 2023

Alex Dimitriu, MD, psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist and Founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine, says that, “numerous factors have coincided to contribute to increased teen anxiety”—prior to the pandemic—including the introduction of smartphones and widespread use of social media around 2012.

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By Brianne Hogan, June 16, 2023

“Toxic is quite a strong word, and reality may be more nuanced or gray in some cases,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, who is double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine. “However, it serves as a powerful reminder of what can go wrong and what to watch out for. ‘Manipulative,’ ‘selfish,’ ‘narcissistic,’ and ‘lacking empathy’ are other words that could describe a similar experience.”

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By Klaudia Balogh, June 14, 2023

Alex Dimitriu, MD, a dual board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist, told Healthnews about a study where participants were told to wear a sleep tracking device, which randomly told them how they slept, irrespective of actual sleep quality. “The fascinating finding was that people who were told they slept poorly, felt worse, and were sleepy by day, be careful what data you accept as truth. Even in a sleep lab, with EEG monitoring, it can be hard to perfectly track sleep, so all other home or consumer devices are not any better.”

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