 I'm Dr. Lisa Sussman, a health psychologist here at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health and Medicine. Sleep is one of our five pillars of health. We've been learning more about the purpose of sleep. Why do we spend about one-third of our lives sleeping? It's a very long time. Sleep helps us to repair the body and to help the body grow. It also helps our brain sort of clear things out at the end of the day and make it a fresh start for the next day. It helps us to consolidate, organize, and retrieve information. Over 70 million Americans report that they have difficulty sleeping. Chronic insomnia affects over 10% of our adult population. Insomnia is treatable. And we know now that the first line of treatment is behavioral. And there's a comprehensive program called CBTI, which stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. And we know that this is at least as effective as medication. Unlike medications, these interventions produce durable results that last long after the treatment is complete. And unlike medications, they have no side effects. CBTI utilizes a number of strategies to restore sleep. The two main components are sleep restriction and stimulus control. Both of these components reverse the vicious cycle of insomnia and break the negative patterns that maintain it over time. Other components of CBTI include relaxation training, cognitive therapy, and sleep hygiene. Also, we are able to expand our treatment or provide other services such as stress management, nutrition and supplements, massage, acupuncture, and health coaching. At our Integrative Health and Medicine Center, we are able to determine whether or not CBTI is the right treatment for you, as well as customize and expand the treatment and provide appropriate referrals as needed, for instance, to one of our sleep centers.