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Does it seem those days of uninterrupted sleep vanished somewhere between middle age and retirement?

It’s when you’re sleeping that your brain is doing some of its most important work.

Sleep problems are not inevitable. They’re worth taking seriously and worth solving.

When Shakespeare wrote "To sleep, perchance to dream," was he thinking wishfully? Remember when you could sleep anywhere, anytime? Your head hit the pillow and you were out until morning. Seems those days vanished somewhere between middle age and retirement , replaced by nights spent staring at the ceiling, performing word games on your smartphone, and tapping your charging Apple Watch to check on the time until it was light.

The cruelest trick of getting older is that right when you need sleep the most, yo

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