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EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 21 MIN

255: Still Waking Up at 3AM? The Root Causes We Finally Found - Case Study - Wes

from The Sleep Detective podcast: why you can't sleep and how to fix it · host Martha Lewis

Book a free consultation to get started with the Complete Sleep Solution program so you can get your sleep back for good: https://p.bttr.to/3VJwvDsWes considered himself a good sleeper his whole life. Then he spent 18 months waking up at 3am, lying there for an hour or two, trying everything he could think of. Nothing worked — until we ran comprehensive functional lab testing and found what everyone else had missed.In this episode I walk through his full case: what the tests showed, what we did about it, and the one change at month five that finally unlocked 7-8 hours of sleep.If you've tried the standard approaches and you're still waking up in the middle of the night, this one is for you.00:00 Sleeper to Insomniac01:16 What Wes Already Tried01:54 Cortisol and Hormone Clues05:31 Gut Test Red Flags07:37 Neurotransmitters and Minerals11:01 Early Lifestyle Tweaks13:05 Supplement Strategy Explained15:58 Gut Protocol and Binders19:10 The Breakthrough Timeline20:46 Five Month Win

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