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‘How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack,” writer Dorothy Parker once said, no doubt regretfully. Then, as now, she was not alone. A quarter of Kiwis have trouble sleeping and the confirmed insomniacs among them will not appreciate your sleep tips and supplement suggestions. They will have tried them all.
British doctor Michael Mosley, though, is not to be put off. After great success with guides on diet, exercise and healthy living, he’s polished up his 2020 book Fast Asleep, which went rather unnoticed during the pandemic, and released 4 Weeks to Better Sleep, with updated evidence and his own personal experiences.
After 20 years of intermittent insomnia, Mosley has been enjoying improved slumber for at least nine months. Last year, he put himself through a clinical trial on sleep at Flinders University in Adelaide and went on to create a four-week schedule to get the sleep-deprived snoozing better. His sleep regime had long involved getting up in the night (as he explains in our extract, page 18) but, he told the Listener, those occasions are getting rarer.
Mosley’s new schedule starts with things like keeping a sleep diary, following a Mediterranean diet, and breathing exercises if you wake up in the middle of the night. It gradually includes more intensive regimes, such as sleep restriction therapy, resistance exercise and boosting gut-friendly foods. Weight loss can also play an important part.
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Ewes know it
'It has been my life's work,\" I announced grandly and quite possibly pompously the other day to Greg, no other audience being available, \"to advocate for the advancement of sheep.\" He pointed out that this was patently untrue. If it was true, he said annoyingly, although quite possibly reasonably, I'd have started my life's work a bit earlier, given that I had taken up this selfless work only seven years ago, the length of time we have been at Lush Places.
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A moral panic
America's top doctor wants smoking-style warning labels for social media platforms.
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Give and take
We're likely to reciprocate if someone's nice to us unexpectedly.
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Culture club
Whether you make yoghurt at home with your own starter or buy a commercial brand, the health benefits remain roughly the same.
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Now for the news
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Time to rewind
A leaner NZ International Film Festival programme still offers promising local debuts and some art cinema classics.
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Come dancing
Albums from Anna Coddington and Peggy Gou are smart and sassy. Bonny Light Horseman leans on heartache.
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Calling on the muse
Kiwi journalist Garth Cartwright recalls his audience with the late Françoise Hardy in Paris.
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Artist of high standing
Waiheke Island sculptor Anton Forde talks about creating the largest contemporary pou installation of his career.
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'You were salvation'
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