Your patient's insomnia isn't a melatonin problem. It's a rumination problem, and the fix I hand out more than anything else isn't a supplement or a weighted blanket. It's stand-up comedy.

In this one, I break down:

Why rumination, not noise or light, is what's actually keeping patients awake
The vagus nerve mechanism behind why a real laugh works better than meditation
Why true crime, dramas, and doom scrolling keep the nervous system sympathetic even in bed
The overlooked reason a live audience laugh track matters more than the jokes themselves
Exactly how to prescribe this to patients, comedian picks, setup, and the objections you'll hear

I stumbled into this during the roughest stretch of building my practice, $3,500 in overdraft fees in a year, and a CA going through a divorce who accidentally cracked the code before I did. Now it's one of the fastest wins I hand patients, right alongside their cranial care.

Try it tonight. Then give it to the next patient who tells you their brain won't shut off.

00:00 Parasympathetic Reps

00:14 Podcast Welcome

00:46 Sleep Hack Reveal

02:25 How to Use It

04:05 Why It Works

04:14 Origin Story

06:24 Rumination vs Threat

08:29 Vagus Nerve Laugh

10:45 Familiarity Predictability

12:09 Audience Safety Signal

13:42 What Fails and Why

15:09 How to Recommend

16:41 Sleep Hygiene Stack

17:32 Try It Tonight

18:06 Wrap Up and Outro

38 - The Sleep Hack I Give Patients More Than Anything Else

The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors

38 - The Sleep Hack I Give Patients More Than Anything Else