Beginner’s Guide to Sleep Better: 7 Simple Steps to Get You Started

 

Do you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep? Do you get enough sleep? For that matter, do you know anyone who gets enough sleep?

Sleep is one of the keys to living a healthy, strong and balanced life. There are lots of technical explanations for how you sleep, why you sleep, how much to sleep, what happens if you don’t get enough sleep (24 hours without sleep will affect you similarly to a blood-alcohol level of .10% – in all fifty states you’ll be the equivalent of legally drunk), and whether you can repay a sleep deficit (hint: you can’t). The bottom line is that, without even having to consult the stacks of articles and studies and experiments that seek to explain it, you just know that you feel better when you get enough sleep. For not well understood reasons, sleep helps you repair at night.

But none of this will be on the final exam. All you need to know is that you need 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night, every night of the week. I’m...

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