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This week we revisit our science-backed ideas for a very good night time’s sleep with sleep scientist Eti Ben Simon and host of the Sleep with Me podcast Drew Ackerman.
Episode abstract:
A great night time’s sleep could be exhausting to come back by, and beating your self up over not sleeping sufficient will solely make it worse. On this episode of The Science of Happiness, the host of Sleep With Me podcast Drew Ackerman joins us to attempt science-backed ideas for locating your pure sleep rhythm. Drew, often known as “Dearest Scooter,” talks about his historical past with insomnia and sleep nervousness, sleep hygiene, and his philosophy on bringing extra self-compassion into his strategy to attempting to go to sleep. Then we hear from sleep scientist Eti Ben Simon about how sleep impacts your social life.
Follow:
- Keep away from alcohol and caffeine after 2 p.m. to unmask your true organic sleep wants.
- Maintain lights dim within the night and restrict entry to LED lights after 9 p.m.
- Fall asleep as quickly as you are feeling drained (even in the event you’re in the course of one thing). This may assist you determine the earliest window it’s physiologically attainable so that you can go to sleep.
- Don’t use an alarm clock to get up.
Right now’s company:
Drew Ackerman is the host of one of the vital listened-to sleep podcasts, Sleep with Me.
Take heed to Sleep With Me Podcast: https://pod.link/sleep-with-me
Comply with Drew on Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/2p8nrhnp
Comply with Drew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dearestscooter/
Comply with Drew on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/Sleepwithmepodcast/
Eti Ben Simon is a sleep scientist and postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, the place she works at Matthew Walkers’ Heart for Human Sleep Science.
Be taught extra about Eti and her work: https://www.sleepingeti.com/
Comply with Eti on Twitter: https://twitter.com/etoosh
Comply with Eti on Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/328aa5yr
Sources from The Higher Good Science Heart:
4 Stunning Methods to Get a Higher Night time’s Sleep: https://tinyurl.com/2p832bh5
How Mindfulness Improves Sleep: https://tinyurl.com/2p8rhkhj
Your Sleep Tonight Modifications How You React to Stress Tomorrow: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zvbjz
Extra Sources for A Good Night time’s Sleep:
Matthew Walker’s 11 Ideas for Bettering Sleep High quality: https://tinyurl.com/2kadu7va
TED – Sleeping with Science: https://tinyurl.com/23mmbdy3
Harvard Well being – 8 Tricks to Get a Good Night time’s Sleep: https://tinyurl.com/2p8um9z7
BBC – Why Do We Sleep? https://tinyurl.com/2p8z9v2d
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