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David A. Mayen

@sleeprecovery_perspective

LIF

The New AASM Insomnia Guidelines Just Crowned CBT-I. They Also Exposed Its Blind Spot.

In April 2026, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine published a guideline that settles a debate sleep clinicians have argued about for…

Jul 01, 2026 · 7 min read · 35 claps #sleep #insomnia #sleep-medicine

LIF BIO

Most people assume the brain ages the way everything else does — gradually, invisibly, until one day something noticeably stops working. A…

Apr 08, 2026 · 8 min read · 10 claps #how-fast-are-brainwaves #brain #brain-health

LIF MED

A client walked into our practice a while back with a complaint we hear constantly: insomnia, plain and simple, no drama attached. We’ll…

Jul 02, 2026 · 7 min read · 2 claps #ptsd #trauma-recovery #intergenerational-trauma

The statistics paint a grim picture. Nearly 9% of American adults now report experiencing a mental health crisis annually. Among young…

Sep 14, 2025 · 9 min read · 0 claps #ptsd #media-violence #propaganda

MED LIF

A client once told me she’d stopped mentioning her sleep problems to her cardiologist because nobody ever connected the two. Her blood…

Jul 12, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #insomnia #heart-disease #targeted-alpha-therapy

C1 neurons keep a stress hub locked “on” for days after a threat passes, a pattern that mirrors the hyper-aroused brainwaves alpha-theta…

Jul 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #neuroscience #ptsd #anxiety

Pam Reynolds was a singer-songwriter from Atlanta. In 1991, she was 35 years old, and a routine dizzy spell turned out to be a giant…

Apr 08, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #brain #near-death-experiences #out-of-body-experience