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Our habits shape who we are: learn how to nourish your body, mind and spirit, every day.
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Strategies for getting more and better sleep
Where sleep is concerned, for many people there is room for improvement! As we all will have experienced, poor sleep can leave you feeling fuzzy headed, easy to annoy and low in energy. Beyond this extended periods of poor sleep can feed in to poor health such as through promoting weight gain, insulin resistance, reduced immunity and increased inflammation.
But the good news is there are many strategies you can try to improve your sleep. Some of these suggestions may also sound obvious - don’t dismiss these ones, sometimes the simplest changes can have the greatest results.
Why sleep is important for your health
In my last post I discussed how what you eat can effect the quality of your sleep, and how the quality of your sleep can influence what you eat! Quite a circular topic, I know!
In this post I want motivate you to take good care of your sleep. We all know how we feel after a bad nights sleep. Irritable, fatigued, mentally slower… sound familiar? But your sleep, and the quality of the sleep you get over a prolonged period of days, weeks, months and years can have a profound impact on your health.