How to get better sleep: Snoring, menopause, sleep aids and more
Are you getting enough sleep? Most of us aren’t. As part of National Sleep Awareness Week, Prisma Health brought experts together to help you know how to get more sleep, improve the quality of the sleep you’re getting and generally feel more well-rested and able to handle your busy schedule.
Antoinette Williams Rutherford, MD, sleep medicine expert, and Yemi Olatunde, MD, internal medicine physician, answered questions about how to improve your quality of sleep, including:
- How many hours should you sleep per night?
- If you’re getting plenty of sleep but you’re still tired, is that a sign of a more serious health problem?
- How long can you go without sleep?
- Can skipping sleep cause mental or physical health problems?
- How can you arrange your room to increase the quality of sleep?
- Is there a link between poor sleep and dementia?
- Do people with dementia sleep less?
- Does menopause affect sleep quality?
- How does therapy help with problems sleeping?
- How are weight and sleep connected?
- Does better sleep help you lose weight?
- How does snoring affect your sleep?
- What causes snoring?
- Can you stop yourself from snoring?
- Is mouth-taping safe or effective?
- When should you see a doctor about snoring?
- Are over-the-counter sleep aids safe to use?
- And more
For those who have trouble sleeping and are interested in learning more about what could be causing poor sleep or ways to get more sleep and feel better rested moving forward, our sleep medicine physicians may be able to help.
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