Sleep Is Free Medicine

She sat in the doctor’s office, exhausted.

“I just can’t sleep anymore,” she said.

Three minutes later, she walked out with an Ambien prescription.

Nobody asked about her evening wine habit.

Nobody mentioned the TV she fell asleep watching.

Nobody discussed her afternoon coffee at 4 PM.

Nobody talked about her bedroom temperature or the streetlight streaming through her curtains.

Just a pill. $200 a month. And a promise of rest.

Here’s what happened instead: She slept, but woke up groggy. Gained weight. Her blood sugar climbed. Her doctor added metformin. Then blood pressure medication. Then something for anxiety.

Five prescriptions. All because nobody taught her the basics.

Dark room. Cool temperature. No screens two hours before bed. Magnesium. Deep breathing. Moving her body during the day so it actually craved rest at night.

Cost: basically nothing.

The sleep aid industry is worth $80 billion. They need you believing sleep is broken and only they can fix it.

Your body knows how to sleep. You’ve just been taught to ignore what it needs.

When’s the last time a doctor asked about your bedroom environment before writing that prescription? Let me know…

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