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are you getting enough sleep ?

• You may build up a tolerance, requiring larger doses to achieve
the same effect.

• You can also become addicted to them.
• Worst case, you may wind up needing sleeping pills to sleep

and stimulants to wake up, taking higher and higher doses of
each in an extremely dangerous cycle.

3. Keep Regular Meal Times

Try to eat at approximately the same times each day, and avoid
eating too close to bedtime. Digestion is a very active process and
may interfere with your attempts to relax and fall asleep.

Nutritionists chime in with the advice that we’ll process and
use nutrients most efficiently by eating the big meal in the morn-
ing and then tapering off during the day and by eating several
small meals rather than two or three large ones. However you
refuel, regular habits will benefit healthy sleep.

4. Stick to Regular Bed and Rising Times

A regular sleep schedule—getting up and going to bed at approx-
imately the same time each day—will help combat insomnia.

That means seven days a week. If you tend to follow one sched-
ule during the work week but depart from it drastically for week-
ends, you may well have trouble falling asleep Sunday night and
even more trouble dragging yourself out of bed Monday morning.

Folks who work split shifts have an incredibly high incidence
of insomnia. The constant disruption is just too hard for most of
us to adjust to.

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