20 Doctor’s Tips For Great Sleep (4 of 5)

Have A Weekend Camping Trip

Again, something you might not want to do in the dead of winter, but it can improve sleep a lot.

With camping there is more stillness, and the pitch darkness also helps our body in resetting and boosting the quality of sleep. So if you need to get some better sleep, take a weekend to go camping.

Stay Awake

This may sound counter-intuitive, but it’s actually an effective strategy. Of course, we wouldn’t suggest this as your first plan of action. But if it comes down to it, trick your brain to staying awake. We know that this method works due to a popular cited study in 2003. The study claims and proved that when insomniacs laid in bed and had the intention to stay up, they fell asleep faster and had a restful sleep.

Take Magnesium

These days you might have to grab some calcium magnesium pills, but it does the same thing. This is an effective way for sleeping better and a 2012 study goes and proves it. It’s basically a natural sleeping pill, except better for most people.

Read Paper Books Over eReaders

One issue many people have is that we’re often exposed too much to blue light. Blue light is the type of light that’s emitted from TV, computer screens, tablets, and all electronic devices. It’s bad because this light tricks our brains into thinking that it’s still daylight even when we look outside and it’s not.

Blue light overall interferes with our brain to release melatonin – a sleep inducing drug in our brain – and causes us to stay up. How this goes to eReaders is again this blue light. So if you’re the type of person who reads before going to bed, we’d suggest reading a paper book over an eReader.