Sound Sleep Guru

06/24/2026

❌Mouth tape is NOT an evidenced based treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). That’s all, that’s the post. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

06/23/2026

👩🏻‍💻New Substack post is up on the Emperor of All Sleep Disorders, part two of my series on the 3️⃣magic bullet treatments in sleep medicine. Comment SUBSTACK and I’ll DM you a link!

06/22/2026

🧡A heartfelt congratulations to my Seattle colleague Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Amy Voedisch Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su & Dr. Amy Voedisch on the release of their new book Estrogen, Interrupted: A Guide To Surviving and Thriving in Perimenopause. The timing is 👌

🧡And thank you for quoting me in the chapter on SLEEP!

🧡🏃‍♀️Run and buy this for your perimenopausal friends! I will link my guest appearance on their podcast in the stories!

06/19/2026

Post-op day 9

-It’s going to be a long summer. My post-op follow up is tomorrow, hoping I can ditch this knee brace especially because I think it’s giving me a sapenous nerve compression.

-Also hoping I get cleared to swim soon.

-The silver lining to this experience has been the gift of receiving love and support from friends, a greater appreciation for being able bodied, greater awareness of how inaccessible so many spaces are, and how many people are completely checked out and completely unaware of other people who might benefit from the smallest amount of kindness like holding a door open or patience.

06/16/2026

✍🏻New Weekly Substack is up! Link in bio to subscribe so you never miss it!

06/14/2026

👩🏻‍⚕️Some one liners I’ve been ripping recently as a sleep neurologist

(all jokes, I actually say things like “tell me more about that” and “what do you think is keeping this going?”)

(I didn’t think it needed to be said but this is very much a joke and I do not actually say these things. I respect my patients tremendously. Nothing here is medical advice.)

feel free to use & share your own below 👇

Thank you Dr. Dev | Psychiatry Resident for the inspo

06/14/2026

👩🏻‍⚕️Some one liners I’ve been ripping recently as a sleep neurologist

(all jokes, I actually say things like “tell me more about that” and “what do you think is going on here?”)

(I didn’t think it needed to be said but this is very much a joke and I do not actually say these things. I respect my patients tremendously. Nothing here is medical advice.)

feel free to use & share your own below 👇

Dr. Dev | Psychiatry Resident thanks for the inspiration

06/14/2026

Post-Op Day #4 new ACL courtesy of Christopher Wahl Proliance Surgeons

-It certainly could be worse. A bit of swelling but in some ways less painful than it was before surgery.

06/13/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-world-cup-decided-compound-jet-lag-most-teams-yet-verma-md-mba-k6jqc
Fantastic article written by one of my Stanford sleep medicine cofellows Dr. Nitum Verma.

The hidden circadian variable that will decide knockout matches. Nitun Verma, MD, AASM spokesperson and founder of Sleep Decode, on jet lag in elite sport.

06/12/2026

- And to show people there is so much more to sleep medicine than sleep hygiene and hormones.