Talking Sleep

This is the official podcast of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and it sounds exactly like what you would expect from a major medical organization: thoroughly researched, clinically precise, and hosted by someone who actually diagnoses and treats sleep disorders for a living. Dr. Seema Khosla, medical director of the North Dakota Center for Sleep, leads interviews with sleep researchers, clinicians, and healthcare experts every two weeks. The 4.9-star rating from 76 reviews is not accidental. The show has covered 100 episodes spanning topics like obstructive sleep apnea treatment guidelines, wearable sleep tech, AI applications in sleep medicine, craniofacial sleep medicine, and sleep disorders in military veterans. It leans clinical, which means this is not the podcast to put on at bedtime. But if you are trying to understand what is actually happening in your body when you cannot sleep, or if you want to bring informed questions to your next doctor appointment, it is invaluable. Khosla has a warm interview style that keeps the medical jargon accessible without dumbing anything down. The audience skews toward sleep professionals, but the general public finds it just as useful. For anyone dealing with chronic insomnia who wants to understand the disorder from the medical community’s own perspective, Talking Sleep is the most authoritative source in podcast form.