Sleep Health Resources
- Sleep Foundation: The 20 Ultimate Tips for How to Sleep Better—This comprehensive guide covers various aspects of sleep hygiene, including optimizing our sleep environment, setting a consistent sleep schedule, and relaxation techniques.
- Heart Matters Magazine: Top 10 Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep—This article offers advice on creating a restful environment, avoiding technology before bed, and focusing on sleep quality.
- Mayo Clinic: 5 Ways to Get Better Sleep—This article provides five strategies for improving sleep if one has trouble falling or staying asleep.
- Healthline: Top 15 Proven Tips to Sleep Better at Night—This article provides 15 evidence-based tips for sleeping better at night.
- American Heart Association: How Sleep Affects Your Health — This infographic includes information about the average hours required for good sleep, the benefits of good sleep, and the risks of poor sleep.
- UC Davis Health: Try these 13 tips to help you sleep better — This blog offers 13 tips based on cognitive-based treatment (CBT) (a gold-standard treatment for sleep problems) that a psychiatrist and clinical professor shared with his patients.
- The Better Sleep Council: 4 Bedtime Stretches for Better Sleep—This blog shares a few simple stretches to add to your nightly routine to help you relax and unwind for better sleep.
- The Better Sleep Council — Optimizing Your Rest: Discover How Diet Influences Sleep Quality — This blog discusses the science of sleep and nutrition, including a list of sleep-promoting foods to incorporate into your diet.
- Note: The Better Sleep Council also has helpful blogs about improving sleep.
- National Sleep Foundation: Get Moving to Get Better Sleep —This blog discusses how exercise improves sleep quality.
- Huberman Lab Podcast – Sleep Toolkit: Tools for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing — This podcast provides a comprehensive toolkit consisting of behavioral and supplement-based tools to improve sleep quality, duration, and impact.
- Caroline Leaf: The One Secret to Guarantee Better Sleep—This podcast discusses one secret to sleeping better and provides tips to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep.
- The Knowledge Project Podcast: The Science of Better Sleep | Dr. Gina Poe—This podcast features a neuroscientist and sleep expert who discusses the science behind sleep, the stages of sleep, how to get more efficient sleep, what to do when you can not go back to sleep, and more.
- Huberman Lab Podcast – Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep —This podcast features a professor of Neuroscience and Psychology who discusses the biology of sleep and the effects of sunlight, caffeine, alcohol, naps, hormones, exercise, marijuana, sexual activity, and various supplements on sleep. This episode also includes evidence-based actionable tools to improve sleep.
- The Diary of a CEO: The Secret to a Good Night’s Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski —This podcast features a sleep physiologist who delves into the common misconceptions about sleep, the effects of not sleeping properly or sleep deprivation, how to sleep better at night, the effects of diet, caffeine and sleeping pills on sleep, the correlation between poor mental health and poor sleep, and many more.
- The Matt Walker Podcast: Optimising Your Sleep — This podcast offers five conventional and unconventional tips for optimizing sleep.
- Matt Walker: 6 Tips for Better Sleep — This episode features a sleep scientist who explains various factors to set the stage for a better night’s sleep.
- 7 Tips to Sleeping Well—This episode features a professor who discusses the latest research on chronic sleep issues and simple tips to sleep better.
- How to Get a Perfect Night’s Sleep — This episode discusses the importance of sleep and provides tips on improving sleep quality.
- The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It by W. Chris Winter
- Offers strategies for understanding and fixing sleep problems, tailored to individual needs. It also addresses common sleep disorders and the role of sleep technologies.
- Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success by Shawn Stevenson
- Provides 21 tips on improving sleep quality, including advice on nutrition, exercise, and bedtime routines
- Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day by Dr. Robert Rosenberg
- Takes a holistic approach to sleep, offering tips on how improving specific aspects of health can enhance sleep quality.
- Better Sleep, Better You: Your No-Stress Guide for Getting the Sleep You Need and the Life You Want by Dr. Frank Lipman and Neil Parikh
- Offers practical advice on improving sleep, including a 3-week sleep reset program and tips for different insomniacs and life stages.
- The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
- Examines the importance of sleep and how our culture undervalues it, provides insights into the benefits of getting enough rest, and offers practical tips for improving sleep quality.
- Mindfulness for Insomnia: A Four-Week Guided Program to Relax Your Body, Calm Your Mind, and Get the Sleep You Need by Catherine Polan Orzech and William H. Moorcroft
- It serves as a guide to offer evidence-based meditations and an innovative four-week protocol to learn about emotional stresses and anxieties at the root of sleep issues and develop a plan to address them.