Restorative sleep (deep and REM sleep) is made up of the sleep stages that help you have the mornings and days you want: you feel sharp, you find your words, your workouts feel strong and their impact meaningful. All of that comes back fast — once you find it again.
As many as 70 million American adults struggle with sleep, and most wrestle with why — and what to do about it. These seven short reads are designed to help you understand why you aren't getting the restorative sleep your body needs, and how to change that.
Bad sleep comes in many flavors — clinical insomnia, intermittent bad nights, or seven hours that somehow leave you tired anyway. They have different fixes, and treating the wrong one is why nothing has worked. Which one is yours?
Read the article →Bad sleep rarely has one cause. The causes sort into four categories — what you consume, your environment, stress and distractions, and your health — and the category points to the fix. Which ones are stacked against you?
Read the article →Two sleep stages do almost all of the repair — deep sleep and REM — and they aren't spread evenly through the night. That's how eight hours can still leave you tired. What are these stages, and how do you see your own?
Read the article →A short list of habits — a consistent schedule, caffeine and alcohol cut-offs, a cool dark room, the phone out of bed — does more for most sleepers than anything sold in a bottle. What should you change tonight?
Read the article →Most sleep supplements are judged, and sold, on how fast they put you under — not on whether you wake restored. Which ones have real evidence behind them, and for what?
Read the article →A drink, an edible, or a drugstore pill will knock you out — but sedation isn't sleep, and each one takes something from your night. What do the knockouts cost you?
Read the article →Chronic insomnia's most effective treatment isn't a drug — it's a short program your doctor can start you on, in the office or through an app. When is it time to go, and what happens when you do?
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