Your Sleep, Your HEALTH: Unpacking the Social and Biological Factors That Keep You Up.
In today's episode we're investigating the myriad factors - from biology to environment - that shape sleep health across the lifespan.
We explore how being an evening chronotype significantly increases the risk of insomnia1. We also look at the financial stress and socioeconomic factors that lead to poor sleep among college students, and the crucial role of family dynamics and parental rules in shaping adolescent sleep patterns.
Additionally, we discuss the dangers of late-life sleep medication use being linked to increased falls risk in older adults and how short or long sleep duration may predict higher acute care utilization.
Finally, we analyze the common, often pharmacological, advice circulating on internet forums for insomnia.
The sources provided for this conversation are as follows:
1. Excerpts from "Association-between-insomnia-symptoms-and-chronoty.pdf" [1–56]
2. Excerpts from "College-students’-socioeconomic-background-and-sle.pdf" [57–98]
3. Excerpts from "Cover-2--Editorial-Board_sleh.pdf" [99–109]
4. Excerpts from "Dreamscapes-and-sleep-science_2025_sleh.pdf" [110–112]
5. Excerpts from "Family-implication-in-adolescents’-sleep--A-qualit.pdf" [113–166]
6. Excerpts from "Late-life-sleep-medication-use-associated-with-inc.pdf" [167–222]
7. Excerpts from "Maternal-reported-shorter-total-sleep-duration-but.pdf" [223–271]
8. Excerpts from "Measurement-properties-of-the-SUNRISE-Study-Parent.pdf" [272–326]
9. Excerpts from "Sleep-duration-associated-with-acute-care-utilizat.pdf" [327–381]
10. Excerpts from "Sleepless-in-cyberspace--A-thematic-analysis-of-on.pdf" [382–429]
11. Excerpts from "Social-epidemiology-of-bedtime-screen-use-behavior.pdf" [430–484]
12. Excerpts from "Table-of-Contents_sleh.pdf" [485–491]
13. Excerpts from "“No-rest-for-me-tonight”--A-social-ecological-expl.pdf" [492–531]
