Primary Education Topic:
Health & Wellness
We spend a third of our lives asleep, yet many of us don’t give sleep much thought until it goes wrong. If one bad night can have us longing for sleep for the whole next day, what might decades of poor sleep do to our health? And is there anything we can do about it?
By Kate Sprecher
It’s 2 a.m. and you’re crawling into bed after meeting a tight deadline, dreading the alarm that will ring in a few short hours. Or maybe you’ve been tossing and turning all night, furious at your inability to sleep as the clock ticks steadily toward morning. You spend the next day forgetful, irritable, unable to concentrate and making simple errors.