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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.
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- ISBN: 9780525508151
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- ISBN: 9780525508151
- File size: 1692 KB
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- English
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Starred review from October 1, 2022
For many, attaining good sleep has become increasingly difficult in today's stressful world. Part of Penguin's "Seven Days" series, this book provides readers with suggestions and tools to improve sleep. Prather (psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Univ. of California, San Francisco) helps lead the UCSF Insomnia Clinic and has written numerous articles on insomnia and other sleep-related issues. The author explains the science of sleep in an uncomplicated way and provides readers with techniques to improve sleep and combat insomnia. He also makes the case that better sleep improves immunity and can assist with developing and maintaining better relationships. Fictionalized anecdotes based on former patients are included to emphasize the importance of readers becoming their own sleep scientists. There's also a sleep diary in which readers can track sleep patterns over seven days in order to customize sleep plans. Each chapter concludes with a practice--finding moments throughout the day for stress-free breaks, for example--designed to help break habits that can lead to insomnia or poor sleep. VERDICT This book offers readers a flexible hands-on approach that addresses a serious problem. Highly recommended for anyone trying to reduce insomnia or improve overall sleep.--Erica Swenson Danowitz
Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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