Improving sleep

22/06/2020 21 min
Improving sleep

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Episode Synopsis

Do you constantly feel tired or struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep at night? In this episode Health Promotion Advisers Nicole Ager, Annie Watson-Foulds and Health Adviser and Health Star Jake Williams discuss sleep and how to manage this at times of heightened stress. Particularly as many of our routines have been switched up and this change can affect our sleep. We will look at what sleep is, why it's important, what guidelines say about how much you should get, what can affect our sleep and how we can improve it.

Useful links that were mentioned in the podcast include:

https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/sleep-difficulties-lockdown

https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/three-tips-get-back-sleep

https://www.mind.org.uk/

https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/if-youre-having-difficult-time/