If you haven’t read “Why we sleep” by Matthew Walker I highly recommend you to do so.After finishing his book, my relationship with sleep changed dramatically.Before I was barely sleeping more than 6 hours every night and for most of the time I was a total walking and talking wreck (not even sure this is English accurate haha).I’m not going to tell you too much about the 3 stages of sleep (deep, light, and REM), but I will tell you this.Deep sleep - helps us store and remember informationLight sleep - helps us learn new informationREM sleep - helps us to make sense of that information.For the people here that usually stay up late to catch up on things, there is an experiment done by Walker where he invited 2 groups of students into his lab.One group pulled an all-nighter while the other group had a full night of sleep. The next day, around noon, the 2 groups were asked to study the same set of facts.After allowing them to get 2 full nights of sleep, the 2 groups were tested to see how many facts they managed to remember.The all-nighters recalled 40% fewer facts than the ones who got a full night of sleep before the test.Remember this number 40%!!!For anyone struggling with getting enough sleep, both in quantity or in quality here are some quick ways to improve this:The most important one is REGULARITY – go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time no matter if it’s during the week or at the weekends. This one will massively improve both aspects – quantity and quality of your sleep. For me, this is the main thing I still struggle with.Keep it cool. Our bodies need to drop the temperature by 1-2 degrees Celsius (or 2-3 F) to initiate sleep and stay asleep. This is why you’ll always fall asleep easier in a room that is too cold than too hot. So the best room temperature is around 18 C or 65 F. Taking a very hot shower before going to sleep helps a lot since this will make our core body temperature drop a few degrees. I’ve done it and it works like a charm.DO NOT drink alcohol before going to sleep. I would not recommend even a glass of wine. I was doing this and once I stopped, my sleep improved dramatically.Hope this helps all the sleepless people out here.And for the ones that haven’t yet read “Why we sleep” by Matthew Walker, you should definitely consider reading it. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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