5 Secrets to better sleep
By Theresa Albert, DHN, RNCP The jury is in: Driving drowsy is as dangerous as (if not more so than), driving drunk. And yet, millions of us do it every day. We bolster ourselves with caffeine and keep going–there’s just so much to be done! Shift workers suffer the greatest impact, but in one 2014 study, 4.5 per cent of Australians (that’s 1.2 million people, and mostly women), used prescription sleeping pills and another million used tranquilizers, daily. If we soldier on with our bad habits, we’ll never get a better night’s sleep. Experts suggest that the main culprits to a good night’s rest are:
1 Caffeine: It can take up to 20 hours to clear your liver of caffeine. You may not think it…