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This doctor-approved ‘pre-dreaming’ technique can help you fall asleep faster

By Carly Stern, Dec 24, 2024 Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a double board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine doctor at Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in California, explained that visualization is a lot like “pre-dreaming.” “Everyone knows that beautiful feeling as you start to lightly dream as you doze off into sleep,” he told The Post. […]

Talk About a Let-Down: Why Migraine Sometimes Happens After Reducing Stress

By Beth Ann Mayer, Dec 23, 2024 Reducing these stress levels is essential and may help lower the odds of experiencing a migraine. Yet, sometimes, you might wind up with one anyway. “Interestingly, in let-down headaches, it may be changes in cortisol and other stress hormones that can trigger the headache,” says Alex Dimitriu, MD, a psychiatrist […]

Study Unveils Genetic Link Between Constipation and Depression

By Oladimeji Ewumi, Dec 17, 2024 According to Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double board-certified physician in psychiatry and sleep medicine at Menlo Park Psychiatry in Menlo Park, CA, another theory is that the GI system in people with depression is more overgrown with Bacteroides, a type of GI bacteria sometimes associated with a high protein, low fiber […]

Do Women Need More Sleep Than Men?

By Maggie Aime, Nov 25, 2024 Pregnant women have higher body energy needs, which can result in a greater need for sleep, Alex Dimitriu, M.D., double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine, tells Sleepopolis. (8) But other factors can make it harder to get that extra rest.  Click HERE for the full article.

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