Most people aren’t aware of just how powerful the relationship between stress management and sleep is, or that it affects virtually everything else in your life. As a result, it's one of the most overlooked aspects of sleep hygiene. You can optimise your sleep...

Body weight management is often not something that people associate with sleep hygiene, but it is actually incredibly important for your sleep. There's a relationship between body weight and sleep that most people don't fully appreciate, and it's not just that being...

Most people don't realise the intrinsic relationship between nutrition and sleep, but the reality is that they are inseparable. Each is constantly influencing the other in ways that either support your wellbeing or undermine it. You might optimise your sleep...

The relationship between exercise and sleep is quite robust, and it is one of those things that people tend to ignore, despite just how important exercise is to good quality sleep. I have seen multiple people who have had terrible sleep for years, completely cure...

Stimulant management is crucial if you are to get good sleep. Unfortunately, people often skip it. They do everything else right with their sleep hygiene, but then they pay no attention to their stimulant intake or timing, and as a result, they still struggle with...

Sleep environment optimisation is the next stop in the tour of foundational sleep hygiene habits. You should have already established consistent sleep and wake times, built a wind down routine that transitions your nervous system from activation to rest, sorted your...

Light exposure management is the next thing we need to discuss in this series on foundational sleep hygiene. If you have been following along, we've already discussed the importance of tracking your sleep, we’ve also established that consistent sleep and wake times...

Most people, unfortunately, don’t have a consistent wind down routine, and this is one of the core reasons they have poor sleep. In the previous article, we discussed how consistent sleep and wake times give your circadian rhythm the predictability it needs to work...

The next foundational sleep hygiene habit we must discuss in this series is consistent sleep and wake times. In the last article, we talked about tracking your sleep, learning to pay attention to the patterns that govern how well you rest, and building awareness of...

In the last few articles in this series, you've learned why sleep matters, you understand what happens during those precious hours of unconsciousness, how your sleep-wake cycle is regulated, and roughly how much sleep you actually need. Now comes the practical bit:...