Sleep Heath Articles

One of the most powerful things you can do to improve sleep quality is to wake up and go to bed at a similar time each day. For most shift workers, this is impossible. In fact, shift workers are often expected to work when their bodies want to rest, and to sleep when their internal rhythms are [...]

Noise can be incredibly annoying for anyone who is trying to sleep, but especially for shift workers, who need to sleep during the day. Traffic, doors slamming, phones, building work, doorbells, young children... It can feel relentless. Unsurprisingly, research has found that noise can fragment sleep, making you wake up or shift into lighter, less restorative sleep [...]

Is your child reluctant to fall asleep alone? Do they keep finding excuses to get out of bed? Anxiety about sleep is probably the most common sleep challenge for young children, and is something most children will experience at some point. In this article I’ll explain why anxiety or stress can be a common thread linking many sleep disorders. [...]

As a sleep scientist, this is a question that has me squirming a little.. my typical response varies between: “ it depends” and “perhaps”! I know that’s not terribly helpful. I’d love to give a clearer answer, but in some cases we just don’t have the evidence to prove whether a specific supplement has an impact, or we [...]

If you are jetting off to cheer on the Lionesses this summer, you may be wondering how your body clock will cope.. The 2023 Women's World Cup will be played across 10 different stadiums, nine host cities and four different time zones. Four of the host cities are in New Zealand, which is 11 hours ahead of [...]

We’re here again, in the midst of festival season! And with well over 800 different music festivals taking place in the UK this year ( 1) spanning every genre imaginable, there’s something for everyone on offer! But a long weekend away at a festival isn’t really the environment to catch some quality sleep. Research suggests [...]