Strategic naps can help recover from sleep deprivation
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Sleep researchers devote their careers to understanding how and why we sleep, so what do they do to get a better night’s rest?
It may be reassuring to know that even experts are not always able to practice what they preach. “I think you’ll find a lot of sleep researchers are not good at sleep,” he says. Malcolm von Schantz At Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
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But one thing many of them agree on is that consistency is crucial. Here’s what else they had to say:
Make a plan
“It’s about prioritizing and planning. So I try not to have meetings before 10 a.m., for example, because I like the evening more: I like to go to bed late and wake up late. So, I think in advance what is best for me in terms of my sleep time, my clock time.” My biological, how can I try to arrange my schedule to support this?
Stephen Lockley-Time shifter
Control your lighting
“We pretty much turn off the lights in our house at sunset, and then in the morning, we turn the lights on indoors as much as possible and definitely open the window shades to get sunlight into the house once the sun comes up,” she said. I think these are really important things: minimize light at night, maximize light in the morning.
Christopher Depner,University of Utah
Keep cool
“Sleep science has shown that your body [temperature] Should drop a full score…
