Case study
Eleven nights of unbroken sleep — a director of strategy who hadn't slept through since 2019 — Kokorology
Five years of fragmented sleep, an immaculate bedroom, a supplement stack that filled a drawer. Six weeks of coached upstream work produced his first eleven consecutive nights of unbroken sleep since 2019.
Director of strategy, late-30s, two children, a bedroom so well-engineered (blackout, 18°C, white noise, no screens) it looked like a sleep clinic. He had not slept through a single night since 2019. The supplement drawer held magnesium, glycine, apigenin, theanine, ashwagandha, melatonin, GABA. We did almost no downstream work. We rebuilt upstream: a light ledger (morning sun, evening dim), a glucose tail at dinner, an autonomic discharge sequence before bed, a CBT-I rule that he leave the bed if awake more than 20 minutes. Eleven consecutive nights of unbroken sleep arrived in week six. He kept the magnesium and dropped almost everything else.