For those seeking a brighter future, Life Saving Sleep brings new understanding and delivers fresh solutions to the complex nature of sleep problems. Debunking numerous myths, Dr. Krakow steers you away from the wrong path chosen by so many mental health patients and professionals who assume sleep disorders are just symptoms of psychiatric or psychological conditions. Easy to follow concepts prove sleep symptoms are really independent sleep disorders needing independent evidence-based treatment. By tapping into the “secret of sleep quality,” Life Saving Sleep restores your slumber to a deeper level beyond anything previously imagined, largely drug-free. If you are all too familiar with well-intentioned yet restrictive sleep therapies, fixated on antianxiety drugs, sleeping pills, antidepressants, antipsychotics, or mood stabilizers, then Life Saving Sleep presents the most successful and healthiest ways to fully regain and recover your sleep and quite possibly save your life! "Sleeping pills will not improve your sleep quality, but this book will." - Chris Aiken, MD, Editor of the Carlat Psychiatry Report "An impassioned clarion call! This book empowers patients and professionals to find real solutions for vexing sleep problems." - Robert J. Vanecek, PhD, Clinical Health Psychologist "Dr. Krakow's insight reveals sleep disorders as a cause not a result of mental afflictions. This profound change promises new, more effective approaches to problems of both mind and sleep." - Forouz Jowkar, MS, PhD, Advanced Fellow, Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine "Thank you, Dr. Krakow, for this long overdue examination of such a quiet but pervasive shadow that untreated can be lethal. A must-read for all of us treating patients." - Jeffrey Stuart Sollins, MD, Bridges in Medicine "Life Saving Sleep is a hands-on work setting a new gold standard that helps you spot the harmful myths about and the helpful science of whole health sleep medicine." - Michael Hollifield, MD, Director of Novel Therapies Unit, Long Beach VA Healthcare Dr. Barry Krakow started napping at age 13. Fast forward 30 years to his discovery of the cause of his own sleep problems-chronic, unrelenting physical disruption, destroying his slumber night after night. Now, after 3 more decades of clinical research and treating thousands of sleep patients, Dr. Krakow brings his wit and wisdom to his latest work, Life Saving Sleep. Pulling back the covers on long outdated conventional wisdom claiming sleep problems are fueled only by mental, psychological or psychiatric conditions, Dr. Krakow and his colleagues' research demonstrated time again how the vast number of sleep problems involve physical changes and damage to your sleeping brain waves, preventing you from attaining continuous, deep sleep through the night. The solutions offered are clear, practical, innovative and technologically advanced.