Watch ‘trashy’ TV before bed, wake up at the same time each day and make sure you wind down if you want a good night’s sleep during the pandemic, one expert has advised.
Sleep expert James Wilson says the stress and anxiety caused by the threat of coronavirus may be affecting people’s sleep patterns.
But he insists there are plenty of things we can do to improve it. Watching the news before bed, drinking alcohol and reading emails before nodding off may all impede our ability to sleep or impact our quality of sleep, James says.
He says the current lockdown is affecting people’s ability to relax and increasing anxiety. “An important process of sleep is the drop in heart rate and people are struggling to achieve that,” he says. “They may also