SLEEP: How Understanding Your Body’s Clock Can Revolutionize Your Health
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The Effects of Melatonin Before Bedtime
Melatonin is often called a sleep hormone, and it is emphatically not. The most efficacious study was that taking melatonin before bedtime can reduce the time it takes to get to sleep by about 20 to 30 minutes. But again, in the sort of before bed category, avoid the discussion of stressful topics. You could use white noise or some relaxing sounds such as the sea,. keep it dark, use blackout curtains, which can be quite useful.
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