Pete Bils

Getting More Sleep CAN Make You Healthier

Study after study demonstrates that resolving to get a better night’s sleep can positively impact those areas we’re all making resolutions about anyway, including mood, health, weight loss and memory. Pete Bils, member if the American Academy of Sleep Medicine joins the show to explain why your number 1 New Years resolution should be to get more sleep!

Pete Bils is an associate clinical faculty member at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Minneapolis. He is also a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, an organization dedicated to the assurance of quality care for patients with sleep disorders, the advancement of sleep research, and public and professional education. As the vice president of sleep innovation and clinical research, Bils continually researches, investigates and creates the use of new technologies to promote better sleep, including a computerized pressure mapping system, which shows the effects of sleep surfaces on the human body.

Dr. Derrick DeSilva

1 / 11 / 2010