‘if you feel knackered, you’re not getting enough quality sleep and probably need to do something about it’

If there was a time when the sign of a good night’s sleep was getting your seven to nine hours, science has delivered a new set of metrics. From sleep quality to the regularity of your bedtime, we’ve read the research so you don’t have to

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One in three adults in the UK struggles to sleep through the night; among them is writer Nick Pope. Could embracing the multibillion-pound sleep economy fix his night-time woes or would obsessively attempting to crack bedtime cause another problem altogether?

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Why you’re low on energy – and how to fix it

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