7 Things You Can Do to Fall Asleep Faster
Your whole body will benefit from sounder shuteye
Case in point: Poor sleep messes with your brain’s waste-removal system—possibly raising your risk of Alzheimer’s—as well as impedes its other functions, leading to poorer cognitive performance, inability to read other people’s emotions, and even an increase in risk-taking behavior, Dr. Winter says.
And your brain isn’t the only organ at risk, either.
“Poor sleep makes us want to eat more and eat bad things, it affects digestion, cardiac functioning, hypertension risk, diabetes risk, immune system functioning,” says Dr. Winter (Here are 5 other crazy things that happen when you’re short on sleep).
You get it. Not getting quality sleep or enough of it wreaks havoc on your entire body. So we rounded up tips from sleep experts and scientific research to help you fall asleep faster and avoid another sleepless night.