How did you sleep last night? If you answered that with a yawn, you won’t be surprised to discover that a recent report by the Sleep Health Foundation found that more than half of Australian adults are suffering from at least one chronic sleep symptom that’s affecting their ability to live a healthy, happy life. Or you might be one of 35% of women who report that they often or always are overwhelmed by thoughts when trying to sleep.

On the podcast today, we have Dr Sophie Bostock – a sleep expert and scientist who works with everyone from athletes to entrepreneurs to help them improve their shuteye. She joins our Commissioning Editor Alex Davies to talk about what to do if you’re staring at the ceiling at 3am; how to enhance your workouts by getting in tune with your body’s natural rhythm; as well as the strategies she swears by – including boring yourself back to sleep.

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Find Sophie on Instagram @drsophiebostock (https://www.instagram.com/drsophiebostock/) and at thesleepscientist.com

To find out more about sleep apnoea: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/sleep-apnoea

Want to know more about insomnia: causes, symptoms and different types: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/insomnia

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted by WH commissioning editor Alex Davies (https://www.instagram.com/adavies234/) and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin (https://instagram.com/lizza_marie/)

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