How to Improve Your Sleep
Ask Me Anything Q&A with Dr. Alex Dimitriu

Sleep expert Alex Dimitriu, MD answered common sleep challenge questions during a one-hour Ask Me Anything Q&A session I hosted for my company Stamina Lab, where we are working to help people improve their performance and enhance their wellbeing. The full webinar recording is now available.

Questions included:

👉 I have a big event in the morning or a work presentation, how do you manage anticipation, worry or excessive rumination when trying to get to sleep the night before?

👉 What are best practices to get a quality 7-8 hours of sleep?

👉 What do you recommend for a bedtime ritual?

👉 How does a night owl become a morning person?

👉 How does sleep help your sex drive?

👉 Is there a way to overcome sleep apnea without using a CPAP?

👉 If I'm doing all the things that are being recommended, but I am regularly waking up 2-3 times in the middle of the night, what are some habits or methods you can do when having these issues?

👉 What do you think about drinking wine before bed? Does alcohol affect our sleep and how?

👉 I've been dependent on Ambien for over a year. Any suggestions how to get off of it?

👉 Xanex seems to be the only thing that relaxes me before bed. I'm afraid of it being habit forming since I've been on it since November. Any advice?

👉 My struggle is letting go of the day and allowing my body to relax. I'm a mother of two very different but challenging strong willed children. I feel there is not enough of me to go around and when could I possibly find time for myself, much less a good nights sleep?

👉 What is the optimal amount of REM sleep and Deep sleep?

👉 What about menopause and sleep issues?

👉 I'm stressed and wake up at 4 in the morning, I'd love to get the remaining two hours of sleep I have available. Getting to sleep isn't the problem, it's waking up too early that is the problem. Does this have a name and is there a remedy?

Dr. Dimitriu has dual board certification in psychiatry and sleep medicine. As a consultation psychiatrist, he specialized in the complex interplay between the mind and body.

In his work, Dr. Dimitriu helps his patients optimize peak performance by day and peak restorative sleep by night.

He’s the owner of Menlo Park Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, a clinic based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Stony Brook University in 2005 and graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine's Sleep Medicine Residency Program in 2010.

He has been nationally recognized by The New York Times, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today, NBC News among other media.

Get access to the full webinar recording and download the Tiny Habits for Better Sleep Action Guide to learn the core components of sleep hygiene, how to design a sleep ritual, what your chronotype says about when you go to sleep, and essential sleep resources and tools, including insights from sleep expert Dr. Alex Dimitriu.