If you sleep with the thermostat above 70 at night, you're doing it wrong. The perfect sleeping temperature is well below that, and it just may freeze you out.
If you're getting 7 or 8 hours of sleep per night, you're totally hitting the jackpot. Most of us are getting quite a bit less than that, and we're having more nap failures than nap successes too.
Starting a new habit can feel unnatural at first. Don’t give up. Do your best to get to sleep before midnight and wake up earlier—at the same time every day.
There's many myths that have been spread around for years in regard to sleep. Hearing the debunking of some of these may be quite a comforting relief to you.
Duke researchers examined 210 middle-aged men and women, and they discovered that for women, poor sleep leads to high levels of psychological distress and depression.