READ · GUIDE
How to get to sleep
NHS
Start with clinical guidance rather than sleep advice from people selling something.
The NHS guidance on sleep routines, and the point at which tiredness is worth a GP appointment.
Resources
Everything worth your time on the question: Am I building something my health can carry?
Five things on this subject: one TAIU exercise and four things to read. Practical support sits first, before anything written to be interesting. Start with clinical guidance rather than sleep advice from people selling something.
This page is for going further on your own. If you would rather work the question out with somebody asking, that is the conversation.
Can my body sustain this life: talk it throughREAD · GUIDE
NHS
Start with clinical guidance rather than sleep advice from people selling something.
The NHS guidance on sleep routines, and the point at which tiredness is worth a GP appointment.
READ · GUIDE
NHS
Useful before deciding that low energy is simply age or workload.
The common causes of persistent tiredness, including the ones worth ruling out medically.
READ · GUIDE
NHS
A realistic baseline if you are trying to work out whether your body can sustain how you live.
What the evidence actually supports each week, rather than what fitness culture implies.
TRY · 10 MIN
TAIU
A week of plain observation before any conclusion.
A week of plain observation before any conclusion about health.
READ · BOOK
Matthew Walker
The most widely read case for treating sleep as structural rather than optional. Some of its stronger claims have been challenged. Read it for the questions it raises about your own week, not for its warnings.
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