April 27, 2019
"Getting a good night's sleep makes everything easier. Why then, is it so hard to get?
For most of us, it takes work to settle our minds from a busy day. From medication to melatonin to putting on fuzzy socks, we all have routines we hope will help us drift off into sleep. And for good reason.
"You've just got to gradually bring the brain and the body down, sort of from that altitude of wakefulness onto the hard, safe landing pad of sleep at night," says Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Why We Sleep."
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