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How to Sleep: The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night
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How to Sleep: The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night by Rafael Pelayo, M.D., explores problems that people have with sleeping including insomnia and snoring, to name a few. While he goes through the suggestions for good sleep hygiene, he says that improving a person’s sleep hygiene alone is rarely effective for people with serious sleep problems. Because I have a serious sleep problem, I was eager to read Dr. Pelayo’s book.
Dr. Pelayo offers assurance that no one actually sleeps through the night because we wake up about every 90 minutes. I have read before that our sleep does arrive in 90 minute cycles, and I have tried to calculate enough cycles to get a good night’s sleep, not always successfully.
Besides offering advice to help with insomnia, he offers strategies to deal with jet lag, says that even 10 minutes of exercise a day helps, and recommends meditation right before bed.
After reading extensively in this area because of my own sleep problem, I didn’t find anything really new here but if you need a good primer on dealing with insomnia, this could fit that need.
Dr. Pelayo is a sleep clinician and professor at the Sleep Medicine Clinic at Stanford University.
My review will be posted on Goodreads starting October 28, 2020.
I would like to thank Artisan Books, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc., and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.
Dr. Pelayo offers assurance that no one actually sleeps through the night because we wake up about every 90 minutes. I have read before that our sleep does arrive in 90 minute cycles, and I have tried to calculate enough cycles to get a good night’s sleep, not always successfully.
Besides offering advice to help with insomnia, he offers strategies to deal with jet lag, says that even 10 minutes of exercise a day helps, and recommends meditation right before bed.
After reading extensively in this area because of my own sleep problem, I didn’t find anything really new here but if you need a good primer on dealing with insomnia, this could fit that need.
Dr. Pelayo is a sleep clinician and professor at the Sleep Medicine Clinic at Stanford University.
My review will be posted on Goodreads starting October 28, 2020.
I would like to thank Artisan Books, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc., and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.
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