Ep127: Primary Care & Sleep Care - How Personalized Preventative Care Can Help Address Sleep Disorders w/ Dr. Kenneth Zweig

OVERVIEW

How do you combine primary care and sleep care? When should you seek help from a family doctor or a sleep expert?

A lot of people with sleep disorders consult with their family doctor first and this is not surprising. However, what’s interesting is that several health conditions are rooted from different sleep problems.

In today’s episode, we have Dr. Kenneth Zweig, an internist at Northern Virginia Family Practice Associates (NVFP); a family medicine practice providing full-service concierge health care in the Northern Virginia area. Dr. Zweig provides personalized preventative care that caters to individual patient needs, specializing in sleeping disorders.

Tune in and learn as Dr. Zweig share with us how he became a “sleep expert” after noticing a common trend from his patients. He’ll also talk about the different procedures he recommends as a primary doctor to help address sleep disorders.

You don’t want to just treat the symptoms. You want to get to the underlying problem and the underlying problem is sleep disorder. - Dr. Kenneth Zweig

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WHAT WILL WE LEARN

02:27 Several health issues are partly rooted to sleep disorders
05:05 Are questions related to sleep included on primary care clinic’s assessment forms?
12:25 Sleep is the foundation
15:40 The most common sleep disorder Dr. Zweig observed from his patients
21:31 How to get a sleep study procedure
25:15 What Dr. Zweig can help patients with sleep disorder from a primary care’s point of view
34:00 If you are a primary doctor looking to help address sleep disorders, check Dr. Zweig’s tips