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    Sleep,  Well Being

    Is Sleep Hygiene the Secret to Sensational Sleep?

    Scientists estimate the average adult spends 26 years, or 33 percent of their life sleeping. We spend another 7 years falling to sleep (or trying to) for a grand total of nearly 42 percent of our life spent in bed. That’s more time than we spend eating, laughing and having sex combined. Evolutionarily speaking, sleep is enormously important not just to humans, but to all creatures, as every known species studied to date sleeps. According to Matthew Walker, Neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley (my source for this article unless otherwise noted), “sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health…