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Improve Your Sleep Using These 6 Methods
How to optimize your sleep for improved health and a happier life.
We’re a chronically sleep-deprived society. We sleep way less than we should, and when we are asleep the quality is not nearly as good as it could be. Sleeping pills in the US make up a $1.6 billion industry. It’s evident that there is a problem.
Sleep underpins everything; if you’re not getting enough quality sleep, you’re going to start to suffer across all areas of your life. You need sleep to clean metabolic waste from your brain, to recover physically and mentally, regenerate tissues, among myriad other functions. A lack of sleep leads to reduced immune functioning, increased systemic inflammation, increased blood pressure, and weight gain, among many other detrimental consequences.
But there are ways to improve your sleep quality and get more restorative sleep, without the use of sleeping pills. This article outlines the top 6 ways you can optimize your sleep.
1. Keep a consistent schedule
I recently wrote an article about the importance of maintaining a consistent sleep schedule. While length of sleep is important, what is even more important is going to bed and getting up at the same time. This will allow your body to get accustomed to…
