You know you want it. You want to get better sleep and you swore that 2012 would be the year to do it. But you also want us to help. You want to make sure you’re going to do this right. So a couple weeks ago, we issued a throwdown for the Zeo Sleep Fitness [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Falling Back Asleep,
Sleep Promoters,
Sleep Science
Woody Allen once remarked: “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.” We think he’s onto something. When you show up, you make a commitment. You decide that, however things may turn out, you’re going to at least go along for the ride for a little bit. Learn something. Meet someone new. Experience a new [...]
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Falling Back Asleep,
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This is the second post from Doug S. of Build Better Sleep, our January Featured Blogger. In this post, Doug goes into the different methods that he’s found to be effective in helping him manage his chronic insomnia over the years. There’s some confusion over the actual definitions of sleeplessness versus insomnia, so I’m going [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Falling Back Asleep,
insomnia,
Sleep Promoters
Sleep has something of a love/hate relationship with light. It hates it when you’re trying to fall asleep and stay asleep but absolutely needs it to help wake you up in the morning. Confusing? Absolutely. Explanatory? You better believe it. Something you can influence to your benefit? Dang skippy. Got Light? The science behind light [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
circadian rhythm,
Feeling Good,
Morning Routine,
Sleep Promoters,
Sleep Science
Making sure that teenagers get enough sleep is a daunting task. Today, teenagers have a myriad of demands to stay awake and cheat sleep, such as job commitments, school work, family obligations and the powerful distracting force of the Internet. While excessive daytime sleepiness and a hindered ability to focus and excel in school are [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
sleep debt,
Sleep Deprivation,
teenagers
Falling asleep can be tough. It shouldn’t be. It should be the most natural thing in the world. You get into bed, close your eyes, and take a trip to Sleepville, population: you. Yet, sometimes it’s not that simple. To some people, it may never seem that simple. I’m pretty good at sleeping – one [...]
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Anxiety,
Bedtime Routine,
insomnia,
relaxation
I had a plan. I really did. Convinced that my girlfriend got sub-par sleep, I was going to have her use Zeo for a month, show her just how bad her sleep was, then write about it for you all to read. Although it may not seem like I’m Boyfriend of the Year, I am [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Deep Sleep,
Light Sleep,
REM Sleep,
Sleep Architecture,
Sleep Graph,
Sleep Promoters,
Sleep Schedule,
Wake
Howdy- I’m Keith, the new guy on the content team. I’m also a new Zeo user and I love the data I get from it. I will admit though, that part of this love affair might come from the fact that, every morning, Zeo tells me that I have great sleep. I didn’t pop [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Exercise,
Sleep Promoters,
Sleep Schedule
Psst. It’s daylight savings this weekend. Time to screw up your circadian rhythm again. Why do we do this? If you look at all the countries that participate in daylight savings, as well as those who used to and those who never bothered to, one thing jumps out. It’s mostly us nuts who live towards [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Daylight Savings,
sleep debt,
Sleep Promoters
What time should I go to sleep? If we want to maximize our efficiency, and wake up feeling our best, we know that there are some things that sleep science can do to give us a hand. But will a simple bedtime calculator suffice? A Simple Way to Pick a Bedtime? One way to figure [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Sleep Schedule,
Sleep Science