The sleep prescription : seven days to unlocking your best rest / Aric A. Prather, PhD.
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TextPublisher: [New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]Description: xxvii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780143136651
- 0143136658
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Vastly knowledgeable and genuinely brilliant . . . An easy yet most effective how-to guide on sleep." --Dr. Matthew Walker, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Sleep
From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days
We need sleep to survive. Sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. So how can something that should be so instinctual and automatic be so hard? Dr. Prather runs one of the world's most successful sleep clinics and has cracked the code to help even the most restless of sleepers get a good night's rest.
In The Sleep Prescription , Dr. Prather shares the powerful solutions that he uses to help his patients at the clinic achieve healing and restorative sleep. Going beyond the obvious solutions, Dr. Prather shares surprisingly simple yet deeply effective techniques that will help you lie back and let sleep work its magic.
The seven-day prescription will lead you through these exercises:
Day 1: Set Your (Internal) Clock
Day 2: Ease Off the Gas
Day 3: Energize--But Do It Right
Day 4: Worry Early
Day 5: You Are Not a Computer; You Can't Just Shut Down
Day 6: (Re)Train Your Brain
Day 7: Stay Up Late
Over the course of seven days, this book will teach you how to get out of your own way, so that your body can do effortlessly what it was built to do: sleep well.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195).
"From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural, instinctual, and automatic be so hard? Dr. Aric Prather studies sleep for a living, and he'll tell you right off the bat that there's usually one major thing that gets in the way of sleep: you. Not just you. All of us. We are great at getting in the way of our own sleep. We don't mean to. And we're not making obviously bad choices. In the sleep clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Prather has a line out the door of people struggling to achieve good sleep. By the time they come to him, they've tried everything. In The Sleep Prescription, Dr. Prather shares the most powerful solutions that he uses to help his patients at the clinic achieve restorative sleep. Going beyond the obvious solutions, Dr. Prather shares surprisingly simple yet deeply effective techniques that will help you lie back and let sleep work its magic. Over the course of seven days, this book will teach you how to get out of your own way, so that your body can do what it was built to do: sleep"-- Provided by publisher.