Alcohol is terrible for your sleep. Have as much as you want. Just have it with breakfast. Uder so many great questions. Your youreife likely on ontert everything. What about a what about things to like counting sheep? Or the the method where you breathe seven in, four out. The breathing exercise was developed by doctor andrew wheel who kind of cribbed it off of praneyama, which is an ancient technique. You inhale for four, hold for seven, exhale over eight. It's supposed to distract you from anxiety and calm your nervous system.
Have you listened to Part 1 yet? No? Go on, git. Go do that.
Now if you have, this Part 2 is a bonanza of problem solving from neurologist and somnologist Dr. W. Chris Winter. He'll cover: if you should be taking sleep supplements or pills, sleep talking, apnea, why sleepiness makes us hungry, narcolepsy, the difference between insomnia and sleep deprivation, how to lucid dream, the dangers of shift work and some tactics to lull yourself to dreamland without any medications. ALSO: I share a family secret: my mom's insomnia buster -- newly dubbed the "Sleepy Fancy Nancy" -- that has literally never failed me.
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