https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/stopping-the-war-against-sleep
A Midwestern Doctor: Stopping the War Against Sleep
Since few recognize the critical value of sleep, a safe cure was buried, the pills that replaced it make sleep worse, and Congress is on the precipice of locking in dark mornings nationwide.
A Midwestern Doctor
Aug 09, 2026
Story at a Glance:
•Proper sleep is one of the most important things for our health, and when it is disrupted, many severe issues consistently emerge (e.g., heart attacks, psychiatric illnesses, car accidents, fatigue, diabetes, cognitive impairment, or dementia).
•Due to the importance of sleep and healthy sleep cycles not being understood, many counterproductive policies exist (e.g., sleep is essential for learning, yet educational programs like medical training sleep-deprive students, and schools wake adolescents up too early).
•One of these, daylight saving time, has been particularly problematic, so decades of attempts have been made to fix it. A law is currently advancing through Congress to do so, but it is mislabeled and will actually make things much worse—unless the public is awakened to what is actually in the bill.
•A similar issue exists with sleeping pills, which are labeled to “fix sleep” but in reality function as sleep-blocking sedatives that create a host of issues, making them among the most dangerous drugs on the market. Many people hence do not know that in 1964, a sleeping medication hit the market that was remarkably effective for a variety of conditions (including insomnia) and hence, unlike sleeping pills, profoundly improved the health of its recipients.
•Because it threatened so many different drug markets, once it reached America in 1990, the FDA, in collusion with the media, launched a ten-year takedown of it, which in many regards was almost identical to what they did to ivermectin. It was successful, and very few people are even aware that this drug exists or that many of the sleeping disorders we face are easily treatable.
•In this article, we will review the data that illustrates the harms of poor sleep, the common causes of poor sleep, and the most effective treatments we have found for sleeping disorders that are still available to the public.
One of the key themes I’ve tried to illustrate throughout this publication is that chronic illness has vastly increased over the last 150 years. Furthermore, again and again, doctors of each generation who observed each successive wave of that increase noticed that the treatments they learned at the start of their careers were much less effective for treating the patients they saw at the conclusion of their careers.
For example, here recent article, I discussed this collective loss of vitality in more detail, and listed what I believed were the primary culprits (which has been quite a challenge as there are now so many unhealthy things in our environment). In addition to listing the key culprits many are familiar with (e.g., the vaccination program has had a horrific impact on our health), I proposed another primary cause of chronic illness was modern life being highly disruptive to the natural rhythms the body depends upon for self-regulation and self-repair.