Dr. Robert Whitfield shares a 3-2-1 sleep rule for faster recovery: stop eating three hours before bed, drinking two hours before, and using your phone one hour before. A cool, dark room with white noise helps you sleep longer without bathroom interruptions, which speeds healing.
The first and foremost. Well, the first and most important thing in recovery is sleep. We're trying to achieve better sleep by doing three, two, one, stop eating three hours before bed, stop drinking two hours before bed. Get off your phones an hour before bed. Get your room cool. Get your little noise machine on if you need some white noise or just some sleep app noise or something. Get a sleep mask if your room's too bright. Have has to be a little bit cooler of course, like I said and then try to get off to sleep. You need to get this length of sleep that's going to help you recover. If you're interested in, you know what my patients tell me as many times they have so many problems that they're getting up in the middle of night to go to the bathroom pre op and that shouldn't happen to you. I really think if you start following some of those guidelines I mentioned that you'll sleep better, you'll sleep longer and that will help you. The first and foremost, well, the first and most important thing in recovery is sleep. You recover when you sleep. So that's paramedics.
