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A Woman's Guide to Sleep: Guaranteed Solutions for a Good Night's Rest
Unique Solutions for a Woman’s Unique Sleep Problems
“Women are probably the most sleep-deprived creatures on earth,” says Dr. Joyce Walsleben, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the NYU School of Medicine.
Fluctuating hormones—whether from PMS, pregnancy, perimenopause, or menopause—can wreak havoc on your sleep. If you’re a new mom, you could lose seven hundred hours of sleep in your baby’s first year! As you get older, your sleep schedule can slip off track. Depression and chronic pain can erode your sleep. What you eat—or don’t eat, if you’re dieting—can sabotage your nights, and then there’s the pressure of juggling work, home, and parenting.
Women’s unique sleep problems require unique solutions. The authors explain how to combat restless nights with the right sleep-promoting foods, supplements, herbs, exercise, stress reducers, and biorhythm adjustments, as well as with prescription, over-the-counter, and alternative treatments. You’ll learn how to avoid the sleep robbers hidden in many common foods and medications. You’ll also receive valuable tips on how to get a good night’s sleep when a tossing and turning partner or wakeful child is the problem. A comprehensive resource section will guide you to support groups, websites, and sleep clinics. With this groundbreaking guide tailored to your unique needs, you won’t ever have to drag yourself through another exhausted day again.
“Women are probably the most sleep-deprived creatures on earth,” says Dr. Joyce Walsleben, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the NYU School of Medicine.
Fluctuating hormones—whether from PMS, pregnancy, perimenopause, or menopause—can wreak havoc on your sleep. If you’re a new mom, you could lose seven hundred hours of sleep in your baby’s first year! As you get older, your sleep schedule can slip off track. Depression and chronic pain can erode your sleep. What you eat—or don’t eat, if you’re dieting—can sabotage your nights, and then there’s the pressure of juggling work, home, and parenting.
Women’s unique sleep problems require unique solutions. The authors explain how to combat restless nights with the right sleep-promoting foods, supplements, herbs, exercise, stress reducers, and biorhythm adjustments, as well as with prescription, over-the-counter, and alternative treatments. You’ll learn how to avoid the sleep robbers hidden in many common foods and medications. You’ll also receive valuable tips on how to get a good night’s sleep when a tossing and turning partner or wakeful child is the problem. A comprehensive resource section will guide you to support groups, websites, and sleep clinics. With this groundbreaking guide tailored to your unique needs, you won’t ever have to drag yourself through another exhausted day again.
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320 pages, Paperback
First published October 3, 2000
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January 31, 2014
A Woman's Guide to Sleep by Joyce A. Walsleben, Ph.D., and Rita Baron-Faust addresses the particular stumbling blocks to sleep that women face from menstruation through menopause and beyond and offers a wealth of research, insight and advice in a scholarly yet accessible style.
This book is about getting to sleep, but once you've gotten there and have Hypnos paying regular nocturnal calls to your bedside, you'll want a visit from Morpheus, the god of dreams. I only believe in on God so found some of this absolutely insane..
However some info in the book, was very interesting on real facts, to a women life.. I found some of it useful some no so... wasn't something I would recommend or read again.
This book is about getting to sleep, but once you've gotten there and have Hypnos paying regular nocturnal calls to your bedside, you'll want a visit from Morpheus, the god of dreams. I only believe in on God so found some of this absolutely insane..
However some info in the book, was very interesting on real facts, to a women life.. I found some of it useful some no so... wasn't something I would recommend or read again.
June 8, 2010
I learned how to stop positional snoring with half a tennis ball, which foods that make people sleepy, how women's sleep is different from men, how to determine how much sleep I personally need, how to prevent jet lag, and many many other facts and solutions. Lots of research and knowledge went into this well put together book.
Highly recommended for every woman who wants a better night's sleep.
Highly recommended for every woman who wants a better night's sleep.
March 23, 2010
I thought it was informative and interesting as well. It answered a lot of my questions about what scientifically can work for women in helping to insure a good nights sleep through all stages in life.
September 2, 2009
Really helpful!
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April 19, 2009It didn't help!
June 25, 2009
No new insights, really.
June 5, 2015
Lot's of information I didn't need, but the information I DID need was very useful. It just only comprised about 5 pages of the total book. Oh well. I still learned some tools to battle insomnia.
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