EP158: Dr. Mark Burhenne - How To Improve Your Sleeping Habits

Michael Palmer: Imagine someone shaking your shoulder and bringing you to almost a full state of consciousness. For me, it would be 12 times an hour, 12 times an hour, every hour that you sleep. Imagining that should be enough to realize that there's no way you're going to be your best person the next morning. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by PureBookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is actually gonna put you to sleep. I'm kidding. Our guest is a practicing sleep medicine dentist and author of the book The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox. He is a TEDx speaker, and his advice regularly appears on media outlets like CNN, CBS, The Washington Post, and Men's Health. Dr. Burhanna, welcome to the show. Thanks, Michael. Actually, my job is to get people to sleep, but we won't do that today, I promise. That's right. Well, we have a lot of listeners that drive while listening, so you may want to pull over over to the side of the road. I can't— you know what, these jokes are going to get old, I'm sure. But, uh, it's great to have you. It's great to have you, Mark. And, and sleep is— thank you— sleep is a huge problem. And I, I actually suffer from poor sleep. I have for the last probably decade, and I used to sleep like a baby. So this, this episode may very well be just for me, and I'm gonna— I'm looking forward to it. But before we get into all of that, tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career journey leading up to this point.

Dr. Mark Burhenne (Sep 17): All right. Well, I've been a dentist for— in the US, in California, Silicon Valley, for about 34, 35 years. And halfway, you know, was a conventional general dentist, loved it. And about 10, 12 years ago, realized that I had sleep apnea, my wife had sleep apnea, then very likely my children, which is— we can discuss that. And that kind of turned me around in my career. I mean, I continued doing dentistry, of course, but I integrated I can't technically diagnose sleep apnea. That's in the realm of the physician, but it was so easy for me to see and recognize sleep apnea after having treated myself, my wife, or gone