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If you've been to your doctor, run the tests, and been told everything is normal — but you still can't sleep — this episode will explain why.
Insomnia isn't a disease. It's a sign that something in your body is out of balance. And because doctors are trained to diagnose and treat disease, the real causes of chronic insomnia consistently get missed. In this episode, Martha walks through exactly why conventional medicine falls short when it comes to sleep — and what to do instead.
You'll hear from Martha's client Andrea, who spent two years going to doctors, keeping files on her symptoms, and being told everything was normal — while waking at 1, 2, 3am every night and dealing with anxiety, fatigue, and joint pain. What functional testing eventually revealed changed everything.
In this episode:
Why insomnia is a health problem, not a medical problem — and why that distinction matters
What doctors typically recommend for insomnia and why it doesn't get to the root cause
Why standard blood tests aren't built to find what's causing your sleep problem
What functional testing looks at instead
What Martha found in Andrea's results after two years of normal bloodwork
00:00 Normal Tests No Sleep
00:38 Andrea’s Insomnia Story
01:32 Why Doctors Miss It
02:31 Why Common Fixes Fail
04:50 Why Labs Look Normal
06:09 Functional Testing Deep Dive
08:19 Test Don’t Guess
09:13 Andrea’s Real Root Causes
10:03 Results and Next Steps
