‘Sleep optimization is the last frontier in peak performance’ Shane A. Creado, M.D.

HI, I'M SHANE CREADO, MD!

Thank you for visiting this page!

My mission is to use the cutting-edge sleep tools that I use with billionaires and Olympic athletes, to hack your sleep.

I invested many years of my life to become a physical therapist, medical doctor, psychiatrist, sports psychiatrist and functional sleep medicine doctor because I was frustrated with the fragmented care that patients were receiving.

In the world of sleep, less-than-ideal (suboptimal) sleep can be responsible for everything from ‘treatment-resistant’ depression, to food cravings, to an inability to shed the pounds and lose excess fat, to your relapses of rheumatoid arthritis, to wrong diagnoses of ADHD, to slower recovery from injury, to increased risks of dementia, heart attacks and strokes.

Over 100 million Americans suffer from a sleep problem.

35% of adults and 69% of high school students in the US do not get adequate sleep. 6400 fatal crashes are caused by drowsy driving every year in the US.

Life happens, and with stressful situations, or even joyful situations, such as a new baby or a new job in a different time zone, your sleep is usually the first thing to suffer, which can have devastating consequences on your personal, social and professional life. 

You may not even know that sleep is an issue for you, and if you do not have the tools to understand and optimize it, sub-optimal sleep may be the Trojan horse eating away at your life.

 

As you read this, there are:

·      Children with undiagnosed sleep apnea being pumped with stimulants for distractibility, 

·      Middle schoolers with failing grades because of sleep avoidance, 

·      Teenagers being bullied and targeted for laziness while they are night owls who have not been taught how to shift their sleep cycles, 

·      Young people suffering from insomnia which results in obesity, low self-esteem and academic failures, 

·      People with fragmented sleep leading to emotional outbursts and damaged relationships, 

·      Sleep-deprived people with personality changes and mood instability leading to divorces and violence, 

·      Relationships where intimacy is destroyed by a partners’ snoring or acting out their dreams and unintentionally hitting their partners, 

·      Sleep-deprived employees with poor work performance and consequent unemployment, 

·      Companies losing billions of dollars a year in lost work performance because of sleep-deprived employees, 

·      Athletes with undiagnosed post-concussive sleep disruptions that ended professional sporting careers,

·      Athletes who are injured or playing way below their potential, not making a team or whose careers will be cut short, because they have not been taught about how they need to optimize their sleep. 

·      Patients with untreated insomnia that keeps triggering manic episodes, 

·      Sleep medications directly contributing to an increased dementia risk, 

·      Psychiatric medications leading to fatal accidents because of excessive sleepiness,

·      Patients with abnormal sleep behaviors (like sleep eating or sleep walking) who may actually have an untreated seizure disorder,

·      People on sleep medications which triggered sleep walking and dangerous behaviors they did not remember, including driving, sexual activity and other actions with grave legal consequences.

 

The worst part?

Most people are not aware that sleep problems are the common denominator.

I have had countless patients come to me, after numerous failed medication trials, a buffet of diagnoses and a steady stream of dead ends.

The best part?

Sleep is modifiable, and through the right approach and treatment, you can achieve your goals and be a raging success!

With an evidence-based integrative framework, these sleep protocols work at the level of your DNA and gene expression, to hormones, neuro-transmitters, organs and organ systems and toward an optimized YOU, thereby helping you thrive and transform every aspect of your life.