Dr Abhinav Singh, Medical Director of the Indiana Sleep Center in the US, who has practised sleep medicine for 15 years, gives The Hindu Weekend a two month, step-by-step guide to better sleep. “If you must expose yourself to light, the yellow is a touch better than the tube light [white light has a higher spectrum of blue light],” says Dr Singh. Week 3: Perform sleep ‘fourplay’Look to babies who can sleep anywhereWe are born with the intrinsic knowledge of how to eat and sleep, but “as we grow older, we fight the feeling of sleep with substitutes: the access to caffeine, screens”. Week 8: Breathe to kill cortisolYoga and pranayama activate the parasympathetic (rest system) in the bodyA block of five hours of good sleep is better than eight hours of broken sleep. “Sleep loss is sleep loss.

Source: The Hindu January 01, 2021 10:05 UTC