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UPDATED IN 2024 Many parents feel pressured to "train" babies and young children to sleep. But kids don't need to be trained to sleep--they're built to sleep. Sleep issues arise when parents (with the best of intentions) over-help or "helicopter parent" at night, overshadowing their baby's...

Gets to the heart of why sleep can elude us - and what we can do about it. Cut through the sleep-industry clamour and allow yourself to sleep naturally. Heather Darwall-Smith's message in this book is simple: don't panic! Sleep is the hottest of hot topics. Experts queue up to warn us that lack...

The Science of Sleep, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts - and the prescription to sleep well - in his signature engaging style. Adapted from Medina's Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp, in this chapter, you'll learn how the sleep cycle is born of a constant tension between hormones and brain regions vying to keep you awake and hormones and brain regions trying to make you go to sleep. This is called opponent-process theory.

101 quick and easy hacks to retrain your brain to overcome insomnia, stay asleep through the night, and get deeply restorative rest. You’re exhausted, but your brain won’t shut off. You climb into bed tired, only to spend the next hour staring at the ceiling. When you finally drift off, you...

It is a cautionary tale of the legacy of the danger of a poisonous food additive and the failure of a government, corrupted by greed, to safeguard the health and welfare of its people. This is a handbook that teaches the tools you will need to protect those you love and inform them about the causes of a number of diseases that have, until now, proven inexplicably elusive to a medical community beholden to Big Pharma... While Science Sleeps.

You’re not just tired. You’re missing the deep, restorative sleep your brain needs to thrive. You already know sleep matters. But what most people don’t realize is that even after a full night in bed, the brain may not be getting the deep, restorative sleep it needs to repair, recharge...

“Hormonal changes at midlife can rob you of the very thing you need the most: uninterrupted rest. This comprehensive and research-based book puts information, solutions, and power back in your sleepy hands.” —Mary Claire Haver, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The New Menopause and...

Make your bed and actually sleep in it. The Book of Sleep provides dozens of quick, easy, and evidence-based strategies that are more effective and sustainable than sleep medication for people who suffer from insomnia. Based in CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia), the techniques in this book were developed by a clinical psychologist who specializes in insomnia treatment. Find the relief you need and wake up feeling truly restored. A good night's sleep isn’t just a dream anymore.

We need to change our attitudes to sleep, to stop obsessing about how much we get and what’s keeping us awake, and get back to a more natural sleep-wake pattern. By explaining the science of sleep and how human sleep habits have changed, this book dispels the paranoia and anxieties that...