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We’ve all experienced a time and place where we’ve struggled to drift off to sleep, whether at bedtime or any point in the night after waking unintentionally.
To encourage ideal restorative sleep, there are some key recommended behaviours. While the perfect conditions for sleep are highly personal, establishing a healthy routine to support your sleep rhythms, ensuring that your bedroom environment is supportive of sleep, minimising blue light exposure and avoiding stimulating consumption before bed can all help. And, if you want to up your sleep game, there are some simple aids worth investing in.
Scientist Dr Rebecca Robbins, a sleep researcher, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-author of Sleep for Success! tells Bazaar: “Sometimes we’re guilty of kind of over-medicalising our lives, and sleep aids are not necessary for all of us.” But for those struggling she says “they can help cultivate that calming, relaxing reflex” that induces sleep.
Here we suggest some product categories that could help you get off to sleep more easily – and stay soundly asleep – whether at home or away.
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