Episode #222 Sleep: The Real Reason You’re Waking Up at 3 A.M.

In this episode of the Berman Method Podcast, Dr. Jake and Jenni Berman break down one of the biggest hidden disruptors of health and longevity: poor sleep. After a packed longevity event, they dive into why waking up at 2–3 a.m. isn’t just “normal aging”—and why your bladder isn’t actually the problem.

Instead, they explain how blood sugar crashes, cortisol imbalances, and unresolved stress responses trigger your body to wake you up in the middle of the night. Your body is trying to protect you, not sabotage you—and what you do during the day (and especially the night before) plays a major role in how well you sleep.

They also cover practical steps to start fixing it, from tracking your blood sugar with a CGM to improving nutrition and addressing long-term stress patterns. If you’re tired of guessing and want real answers to your sleep struggles, this episode connects the dots.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

And we're rolling, baby, with the Berman Method podcast treating problems and not symptoms. This is David going against Goliath, Goliath being the corporate medical system, big pharmaceutical companies, your health insurance companies, they don't have your best interests in mind. They will choose profits over patient outcomes every single time. Dr. Jake Berman here with my beautiful co-host Jenni Berman, physician assistant. And we've got an exciting episode coming your way.

Speaker 2 0:32

Yes. That's so funny. I'm just wondering if you know what the episode's gonna be about.

Speaker 1 0:42

Do I know what it's gonna be about? Or is it my expertise?

Speaker 2 0:46

Oh, it's not your expertise.

Speaker 1 0:49

No, this is your world, not mine.

Speaker 2 0:52

Yes, so we are on step two, job two, task two.

Speaker 1 0:57

Is that what we're calling these things? Steps, jobs, and tasks?

Speaker 2 1:02

Event? What should we call it?

Speaker 1 1:05

Speaking of events, holy cow, we just had our longevity event a couple of weeks ago, and what a knockout! Are you freaking kidding me?

Speaker 2 1:15

Yeah, super, super turnout, super fun.

Speaker 1 1:18

That was amazing. So we had 98 people show up to our room.

Speaker 2 1:26

Was that the final number?

Speaker 1 1:28

Somebody told me that number.

Speaker 2 1:30

I think it was 101.

Speaker 1 1:33

Okay. 101 people showed up to this room to l learn about longevity and things that you can do proactively. How can you arrive at 80 feeling 40? And if you're already in your 80s, kick your 90s asses. And it was extremely humbling. I could not believe the feeling that I got where both you and I did not sleep the night before.

Speaker 2 1:57

Right.

Speaker 1 1:58

We both had the same nightmare.

Speaker 2 2:00

Or for several nights before.

Speaker 1 2:02

That was you, not me. But we both had the same nightmare the night before that nobody was gonna show up.

Speaker 2 2:07

Right. It was gonna be a room full of tables and chairs. Empty.

Speaker 1 2:13

And nobody was gonna show up.

Speaker 2 2:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:16

So that's how my Saturday morning starts. And we're preparing, we're running around like chickens with our heads cut off because we couldn't set up until eight o'clock. The one the event started at nine. People are showing up at 8 30, and it was just complete chaos.

Speaker 2 2:32

Well, we had one couple show up at 8 a.m. because you told the husband the day before that he better be there at 7 a.m. And he believed you. And so they showed up at 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 2:42

Our golfers or my golfer.

Speaker 2 2:45

Even though the event didn't start until 9 a.m.

Speaker 1 2:47

Well, they got good seating.

Speaker 2 2:48

His wife was like, Jake told him that we'd be here at 7 a.m. So we got here at 8 a.m. You guys aren't ready for us.

Speaker 1 2:56

Well, they were coming from Fiddler's Creek, and I'm like, I don't want you to run into traffic.

Speaker 3 3:01

Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 3:04

So, anyways, we're running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to prepare for this thing, and people start filling into the room, and I remember looking up from trying to get the IT. I'm not an IT person, and for whatever reason, I'm the one trying to figure out how to get these slideshows going in microphones. And I remember looking up and looking up at the room, and I'm going, Oh my gosh, this room here, this room is filling up. And then 15 minutes later, I looked up again and I'm going, oh crap, the room is filled.

Speaker 2 3:38

Yeah, it was it was awesome. And I mean, we never thought two years ago, we wouldn't have thought at this point that we would need a bigger space to host this event.

Speaker 1 3:50

It was crazy. Two years ago, we were doing like a farmer's market style at Bayfront, hoping and praying that somebody would accidentally walk by us heading to the cabana bar.

Speaker 2 4:01

Right. Right.

Speaker 1 4:04

And then last year we rented out the same room, but they put the divider up, and we had 50 people in there, and it was just you pretty much keynoting with Dr. Cedarquist. Yep. And then this year we maxed out. We need a bigger space, we need a bigger boat like Jaws. Bigger boat. It was just it was extremely humbling, though, because most of the people stayed for the entire thing, and they were genuinely excited to hear what we had to say about longevity and how do you arrive at 80 feeling 40. And if you're already in your 80s, kick your 90s ass. And there was just so many people that really thoroughly enjoyed it, and they spent their Saturday morning with us. It was a beautiful day.

Speaker 2 4:50

Yes, it was.

Speaker 1 4:51

I mean, the weather was pristine. One of those perfect Saturdays in March in Naples, and a hundred people spent it with us.

Speaker 2 5:01

Right, right. It was great. And yeah, just the amount of feedback we got of oh my gosh, it actually makes sense. Even our current clients that are like, it really just connected the dots and made more sense as to why we're doing what we're doing and why we have made the recommendations that we've made to clients. So really putting a lot of focus around blood sugar, cortisol, and gut health in order to improve the internal inflammation and support our immune system so that we can actually age gracefully as opposed to getting older than the number actually shows we are.

Speaker 1 5:38

Exactly. And huge shout out to Joe and Nikki Sweeney. Joe was our keynote speaker, and he absolutely knocked it out of the park. Just 10 out of 10. His story was so compelling, so entertaining, so beneficial. So thank you to Joe and Nikki for helping us bite off this thing. I felt like the dog that was chasing the car and finally caught the car. And Joe helped me through it. Thank you to Doug Perks for being the guy that connected me with Joe. And it was just absolutely amazing. And yes, I was one of those guys in the room that said the same thing when you were doing your presentation. I'm going, oh wow. I've never heard it said that way, or I've never understood it that way. So now I'm like, oh wow, that makes way more sense.

Speaker 2 6:33

Right. And you're around it every single day. It's my life.

Speaker 1 6:36

And then hearing you say it that way, I was like, wow, now I actually it makes sense.

Speaker 2 6:42

Right, right. And while we're saying thank yous, of course, to our other sponsors as well, we had some great sponsors there. Um, Jonathan, who is a physical therapist specializing in the O'Neill program. We had Darland from Nurse You to Wellness, which is an IV clinic that we often refer over to. Um, Jessica Frederick with Lotus Living, who is a uh counselor but also does some meditated yoga sessions. And then we had Tatum, who is a psychiatrist that especially focuses on women and post-menopausal women. So we're grateful to have all of them there. We had STEM pod and the Far um the Relaxed Far Infrared Sauna there as well. So it was just such a great turnout and really exposing the members to more things than just Berman Health Club, um, but really the the people that we connect to to help with the age anti-aging process and really feeling younger, uh arriving at 80 feeling 40.

Transition To Chemical Longevity Factors

Speaker 1 7:41

Yes. And I think this is a perfect time to transition into what we want to talk about today because we've spent the past five weeks, six weeks, five of them talking about the physical components of how do you arrive at 80 feeling 40. Now we're going through the five chemical components.

Speaker 2 7:58

And last week components, that's what you want to call them. Not events, not uh what did I say? Things items, tasks, jobs, task jobs, components.

Speaker 3 8:11

Components. Okay.

Sleep Problems Are Not Just Aging

Speaker 2 8:12

So yes, we talked about brain fog last week, which was component number one on the chemical side.

Speaker 1 8:16

Okay, and now we're talking about sleep. This week is sleep. Yes. Yeah, that was actually a very big one people who are struggling with getting a quality night's sleep.

Speaker 2 8:29

Right. And it's so often you hear as you start going, you know, after, especially in women postmenopausal, but with any hormonal shift which is occurring and occurring in men and women, uh, you know, well, of course it starts in our 20s and 30s, but most people will start to feel the shift after the age of 40, 45. And so many times we're told, oh, it's just a normal part of aging, or it's because you don't have hormones and you need to take these hormones if you want to sleep better. But what we're able to do at that longevity event, and what we're able to do within Berman Health Club every single day, is to help individuals understand that it doesn't have to be this is the way it is. It doesn't have to mean that you have to take a sleeping pill to be able to sleep through the night. It doesn't have to mean that you have to go on hormone replacement to be able to sleep through the night. There's so many other contributing factors.

The 2 A.M. Wake Up Explained

Speaker 1 9:23

And that actually was the most talked about uh-huh moment of the longevity event was your presentation of the all the curves on the core or the blood sugar screen, cortisol and blood sugar screen, where you're pointing it out and you're going, here's the reason why you're waking up at two or three in the morning. It's because what you did over here at seven and eight at night is not because you have to wake up to go pee.

Speaker 2 9:52

Right, yes. And that's so many people are like, well, I wake up two or three times a night to use the bathroom. And I will say it over and over and over again. It is not your bladder waking you up. It is a stress response, a cortisol response to your blood sugar dropping down that actually arouses you, but then your brain and bladder talk. And so your brain's like, okay, we're awake, we're aroused. There's that fight or flight response. And I don't know if you've ever been in any other sort of flight or fight response, like you're competing or you're skydiving or you're doing other some crazy adrenaline rushed event. You usually have to pee right before. And then you go and do the event, and then afterwards, you don't have to use the bathroom anymore, right? Has that ever happened to you?

Speaker 1 10:36

Yeah, I peed right before I did the opening statements for the longevity event. Yeah. Well, I gotta pee again.

Speaker 2 10:47

It's a stress response. Gymnasts feel it all the time. And then, you know, right before we're about to compete in event, it's like, oh man, I have to go to the bathroom. Then you compete your event and you don't actually have to go anymore. It's just that fight or flight response that your body's going through. And that's essentially what's happening at night when your blood sugar is dipping down and the body wakes you up. Sleeping with a low blood sugar is not safe. It's not just your your body cannot go into that state and still function. So your body actually wakes up. That stress response is stimulated. Your brain wakes you to try to get your blood sugar back up to a normal state, which it eventually does, but that's actually what's waking you up at night and telling you to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 11:32

So it's a protective mechanism. So if we go back to caveman days, the whole this whole system, this whole machine that we live in that we call our body, it was designed to keep us alive. Very, very simple. If a saber-toothed tiger is chasing you, it pours epinephrine or yeah, epinephrine adrenaline into your bloodstream so that you can run faster for longer. But you can't do it forever. Right. Then you do the exact opposite so that you can calm back down again. So I want to survive, I don't want to get eaten by this saber-toothed tiger. So pour dump all of this stuff into my bloodstream so that I can run faster right now. But then when he's not chasing me anymore, I can calm down. Same thing happens when we're sleeping, and your blood sugar drops to a dangerous level. Right, your brain knows, oh man, this is not good. My body cannot function the way that it's supposed to function when the blood sugar is this low. So I better wake you up to get you to do something about it.

Speaker 2 12:35

Right, right. Stimulates you. And people are like, Well, I don't get up and eat. And some people do. Some people wake up in the middle of the night and actually eat because that's their again, this mechanism that their body is saying, I need sugar, I need carbs, I need something to bring that blood sugar back up. And certainly it became become a habitual um component, a habit that happens at night where you're waking up and start eating. But initially, it's your brain telling you that it needs sugar. But you know, even if you're not eating, it's that that arousal effect that your body has raises your cortisol, which then will allow the blood sugar to start climbing back up. Cortisol and blood sugar will go together. When one rises, the other one rises. So as cortisol is stimulated from the body actually arousing and waking, then your blood sugar will start to climb back up, which is why 20, 30, 40 minutes after you your body does wake you up in the middle of the night, you're finally able to start falling back asleep and closing your eyes and getting back into that restful state.

Speaker 1 13:37

And it takes that long for that cycle to occur. And again, I wish we could demonstrate this on this podcast right now. Here's the 110 billionth time of me saying this should be a video podcast. Because when you put it on the screen, you can see it clear as day, the blood sugar curve. And it's like, oh wow. That's why I woke up because it dipped. That's why I couldn't go back to sleep for 30 minutes because it was jacked up, but there it starts to come back down a little bit, so that's when I fell back asleep.

Cortisol Curves And The HPA Axis

Speaker 2 14:09

Right, or even just when it climbs up to a safer spot. So the whole climbing of the blood sugar can take, it depends on the person, but it could take 20 minutes, it could take 60 minutes. So once it climbs back into a safer range, is when your body will start to feel that uh comfort and being able to calm down, the cortisol's coming down, you can finally fall back asleep. And this can happen multiple times per night. Sometimes it's only once between 2 to 3, 3:30 a.m. Sometimes it's happening multiple times at night at 1 a.m., 4 a.m. So it and it really depends on what the the person's blood sugar level looks like. Now, blood sugar is just one area of the sleep abnormalities, cortisol regulation is another one. So when we have a constant state of chronic stress or we have had some sort of big trauma or stressor that happened, even if it was 15 or 20 years ago and we've never reset that stress response, that can also be impacting our sleep at night because cortisol is a curve. It should rise first thing in the morning, it should come down throughout the day, it should fall to its lowest point around midnight. And sometimes we don't follow that curve. We either have chronically high cortisol, we have no cortisol, so it's low all the time. Sometimes the curve is flipped where it's low in the morning and high at night. There's a lot of different areas, but not having a typical normal cortisol curve can also affect our sleep pattern.

Speaker 1 15:41

So something that happened 20 years ago, a major stress life event occurs 20 years ago that jacks my cortisol through the roof. But it but because it was never reset, because my cortisol, I'm doing air quotes right now, my cortisol system was never reset, it just stays that way forever.

Speaker 2 16:04

Yeah, it's called it's called your uh HPA axis, so the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis. This is your stress axis where the brain talks to your adrenal glands, which sit right above the kidneys, the brain and the adrenal glands talk. And so when the adrenal glands are releasing cortisol at a high level, then that's telling the brain that the body is still in a state of stress, and the brain then feels that stress and tells the adrenal glands to keep releasing cortisol because your brain is stressed and it's just this vicious cycle. So if we never reset that HPA axis, either eventually, quote unquote, the adrenals get burnt out, right? That's what people will say, like adrenal fatigue. The functional medicine world doesn't call it that. We don't like that, but it's a dysfunction of the adrenal glands. But essentially, it just you get into this chronic state of release, or to the point where the adrenal glands just don't respond to stress anymore. And that is still a dysfunction of that HPA access, which affects our sleep cycle.

Speaker 1 17:07

I keep hearing you say this word reset, reset, reset. That's given me hope and optimism. I'm playing dumb right now, that it can be reset and you can return it back to normal function.

Speaker 2 17:22

Well, sure, absolutely, but it's a it's a process, and it's not just here, go take this supplement and your HPA, your stress axis is gonna be reset. We have to understand, I've already said it, that blood sugar and cortisol or that HPA axis go together. So we can't just fix one problem and expect all of our problems to be fixed. We have to fix both areas. The HPA axis can also be affected by your thyroid function, by your gut health, by vitamin deficiencies. So absolutely, it can be reset and it can be healed, but it is a process, a full body systemic process of healing that we have to go through.

Testing And Tracking With Bloodwork

Speaker 1 18:01

Okay, so we've talked about blood sugar, we've talked about cortisol. Is there any other major ones we should talk about before we switch into what we can do about it?

Speaker 2 18:13

Well, the uh I just mentioned it too is vitamin deficiencies can certainly play into poor sleep quality or yeah, poor sleep quality, um, magnesium deficiency, some amino acid deficiency. So certainly there's other vitamins and blood levels that we should be looking at to actually assess the body's ability to calm down and rest and to stay rested, and then to regenerate or have that uh fuel up essentially, where we're we're refueling the body at night while we're sleeping.

Speaker 1 18:47

Okay, blood sugar, cortisol, vitamin deficiencies.

Speaker 2 18:51

Yes.

Speaker 1 18:51

Any other major ones before we start talking about how to fix it?

Speaker 2 18:54

I think that's like the summary, the three pillars, right? The three biggest ones to be able to improve your sleep.

Speaker 1 19:01

Okay. So if you're waking up one or more times during the night to pee, it's not because you have to pee.

Speaker 2 19:11

99% of the time, correct.

Speaker 1 19:13

Getting or having to wake up in the middle of the night to pee is not a normal part of getting older.

Speaker 2 19:20

Correct.

Speaker 1 19:22

Oh my gosh, my mind is blown right now. As if I did not know this already.

Speaker 2 19:29

Oh. I think you heard it once or twice, but it still is true every time.

Speaker 1 19:35

It happens to me every Saturday night. Every Saturday night, I go way off the bandwagon with dinner. Actually, the whole day.

Speaker 2 19:45

The whole day.

Speaker 1 19:46

The whole day. It's a boat day.

Speaker 2 19:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1 19:48

So I'm eating chips, I'm not drinking as much water. Then we go to dinner, and I'm eating uh hot chicken wrap, which is it's a chicken sandwich with real cheese on it, and fried onion rings and gelapanos, all in a giant tortilla, and it's freaking delicious.

Speaker 3 20:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:09

And then I go home and I'm like, you know what would be great right now? Some cereal, a bowl of cereal for dessert.

Speaker 2 20:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:19

And then I pass out at like 9:30. And then every single Saturday night, Sunday morning at two in the morning, I have to pee. It's like, what? Oh my gosh, I have to pee.

Speaker 2 20:31

And you're not quiet about it. And then you'll go out to the kitchen and get some water. And I'm like, what are you doing? And sometimes you'll go outside. I'm like, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 20:41

Well, I go outside to pee. Are there any other men listening to this right now that prefer peeing outside versus inside?

Speaker 3 20:51

Oh my god.

Speaker 1 20:52

That was a non-negotiable when we built our house. I told my contractor, I've only got two once. One of them is we've got to have a sliding glass door in our bedroom. And he goes, but you have one in the living room. I'm like, Yeah, I need one in the bedroom too. Why? Well, I want to go outside and pee.

Speaker 2 21:12

And a regular door can't do that. No. That's silly.

Speaker 1 21:17

Why would I want a regular door? I want a giant one.

Speaker 2 21:22

We are digressing here. So, yes, improving your sleep. One, I think the most beneficial thing that we could do initially to assess for sleep, besides doing your blood work, right? First and foremost is always getting blood work done so we can see what our vitamin levels are, what our um markers are for our blood sugar instability, so we can get some idea of a starting point, potentially starting some vitamins and amino acids to just augment the process. And by the way, supplements are supplemental, they don't fix your problems. They are supplemental to which help with augmenting the other areas that we are actually fixing. Okay.

Speaker 1 22:00

So not angry. She's so direct right now. If you could see her, her whole posture, body language change. Because so many people think that taking one of the supplements advertised on TV as seen on TV is going to fix the problem.

Speaker 2 22:15

Yeah, I love it when people are like, I've tried that. I'm rolling my eyes. You've tried it, but you haven't tried it with the other areas, the other pillars that we have to fix at the same time. So, yes, doing blood work, seeing what kind of vitamins or supplements that we are actually deficient in can be beneficial.

Speaker 1 22:33

What about a CGL?

CGM Data And The Protein Fix

Speaker 2 22:34

I was can you wait? Jeez, that's exactly where I was going next. Wearing a continuous glucose monitor. If you actually want to fix the problem, put on a continuous glucose monitor so we can see what your blood sugar is doing over 24 hours a day for 14 days. Not just one day, because your blood sugar today is not going to affect your sleep tonight. Your blood sugar today is going to affect your sleep tomorrow night. So it will happen, and you may notice that too with your sleep is that your Saturday night sleep is actually a reflection of your Friday and Saturday night. Because your Friday night's not great either. Let's be real. So your Saturday night sleep is actually a reflection of a solid 24 hours prior. Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday day, Saturday night, then your sleep sinks. I'm not wrong, right? You're not wrong.

Speaker 23:28

Friday night was pizza. Saturday night was the hot chip.

Speaker 2 23:33

And cereal. And Friday night on pizza, you had like fully gluten and dairy pizza. Disgusting. Okay.

Speaker 1 23:43

You could see it clear as day though on the CGM when I was looking at my data. It's like, oh, right there is where I woke up.

Speaker 2 23:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1 23:49

Giant drop.

Speaker 2 23:51

Right. It's true. So wearing a CGM, a continuous glucose monitor, and really seeing what our blood sugar is doing for several days at a time and not just one day is super beneficial so that we can start to make the adjustments. Most of the time, majority of people need more protein in their diet. Increasing your protein will help with blood sugar stability, but we can't just increase it. We have to also balance that with your carbohydrates and fats. And you're like, okay, well, how much protein and how many carbs, how many fats? And that really is not a generic number. That's dependent on the individual, their medication, their um blood work, their lifestyle, their exercise, their muscle mass. Like there's so much that goes into determining how much what your balance of protein, carbs, and fats should be. But most people are not eating enough protein.

Speaker 1 24:41

Like not even close.

Speaker 2 24:43

Not even close. Probably half of what.

Speaker 1 24:45

Looking at us at breakfast yesterday morning. How many times have I brought up Sunday morning breakfast on this podcast? It just blows my mind. And then I'm trying my best to say this in a non-judgmental way because I can't judge you if you don't know what you're doing. But at the same time, it's 2026. You should know that that giant waffle with a foot, a pile of whipped cream on it, a foot high, and another pile of strawberries and blueberries, and there was no eggs, there was no sausage, there was nothing. And I'm going, oh my gosh. What in the world? What planet are you living on?

Speaker 2 25:34

I got up after we ate breakfast on Sunday and took Vera K to the bathroom, and behind us there was this lady sitting with three, a stack of three pancakes, powdered sugar, this like chocolate sauce, syrup, and bananas. And I was just like, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 25:53

That's how you're starting your day. Yeah. And let's put this into perspective. We're we put our name in. This was the brunch place. What was it called?

Speaker 2 26:02

Naples brunch.

Speaker 1 26:03

Naples brunch. We'd never been there before. It was amazing, by the way. And we got there just in the nick of time. We had to wait. We had to wait an entire five minutes.

Speaker 3 26:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:13

But oh my gosh, when we left, the line was wrapped around the block. But as we're waiting there five minutes, this guy pulls up in the CRT Cadillac CRT that was tricked out. Like he's got some serious cash poured into his motor. And of course I had to talk to him because this thing sounded mean. Like absolutely mean. I've never heard a CTS. Like that he had to put a different hood on it because the pulley system, it just didn't fit. You would never ever in a million years think about putting some junky fuel into that Cadillac CTS.

Speaker 3 26:51

Right.

Speaker 1 26:51

Like you wouldn't. I didn't ask him, but I should have asked him. Do you go to the Marco Airport to get Avgas where you can get 106 octane or 103 octane? Because there's no way he puts 87 octane in it. I can't even imagine that he puts 93 octane in it. You gotta put the best fuel that you could possibly put, the most purest fuel into that engine, or it's gonna run like crap. That's what you're doing when you're eating the freaking pancakes first thing in the morning. You're going, you know what, Cadillac CTS with 800 horsepower? I'm gonna go ahead and just pour some water into the gas tank. But there's enough gas in there. I mean, it shouldn't be that big of a deal. It'll dilute it. Like that's what you're doing. You're just pouring sludge into your body first thing in the morning. And I'm going, ugh. Don't get me wrong. I like a good pancake. But I'm gonna make sure that if I'm gonna crush a pancake, there's gonna be at least 30 grams of protein that goes with it. Five eggs, six eggs, some bacon, some sausage. Then let's see if there's room for the pancake. That's not gonna be first, though.

Coaching Options And The STEM Pod

Speaker 2 28:04

Right. Yes. And you should always have your protein first and your vegetables first, and then the carbohydrates that you're having. But here nor there, we need to make sure we're eating enough protein. We need to check our vitamin levels and make sure that we're getting the right amino acids and the right vitamins, the um supplements to be able to support the stress response and the blood sugar levels, and to actually get the brain to calm down. And then we have to regulate that stress cycle that we've talked about. And as I already mentioned, that's a whole systemic process. It's not just here, take this L-theanine and your sleep's gonna be better. Though it does help, we still have to systemically improve that core that stress response process. And sometimes it's undoing 15, 20, 25 years of this stress response being abnormal. So it takes time, it's a systemic response. You need a coach, and there you have it.

Speaker 1 28:58

Yeah, you're not gonna do it by yourself. And the best part about all of this is this is exactly what our team does all day, every day. So you've got two options. You can either try to actually you have three options. Option number one is take a sleeping pill. No, let me I interrupted you, now you have to get me back. Option number one is just accept it. It is what it is, take a sleeping pill. Option number two is try to figure it out on your own by watching commercials, Facebook market or Facebook meta ads, take theonine, this is gonna help your sleep out, all these other things. Or option number three is to trust somebody that does it all day, every day, and knows the quickest way to get to the end result.

Speaker 2 29:54

Okay, and has the tools to be able to do it, not just the blood testing, not just the CGM, not just the team to help you with the nutrition counseling, but also using the regenerative modalities that we have, STEM pod, which has been a game changer on helping to reset that stress access that we that I keep talking about.

Speaker 1 30:14

It's just insane. Nobody else in Southwest Florida has this. I don't even know anybody else in Florida that has this. Well, I guess my former boss has it, but he's up in Jacksonville, so I know that he has it. I don't know anybody else that has STEM pod. It is a game-changing modality that just it's completely changed everything as far as what we know about resetting nerve things. I think that's what this is. It's a nerve thing.

Speaker 2 30:43

Right, right, right, absolutely.

Get A CGM And Prove It

Speaker 1 30:45

Awesome. So, what's the call to action? What do we want people to do?

Speaker 2 30:50

Come to Berman Health Club and get a CGM put on. Step number one.

Speaker 1 30:55

That's step number one. Just come and get one put on, wear it for 14 days, watch it on your app, and see the direct correlation with what you are or are not eating and how it affects your sleep.

Speaker 2 31:09

Right.

Speaker 1 31:10

Good?

Speaker 2 31:10

Yes. Chow.

Speaker 1 31:12

For now.

Speaker 2 31:13

For now.