The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It
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With cutting-edge sleep science and time-tested techniques, The Sleep Solution will help anyone achieve healthy sleep and eliminate pills, pain, and fatigue.
If you want to fix your sleep problems, Internet tips and tricks aren’t going to do it for you. You need to really understand what’s going on with your sleep – both what your problems are and how to solve them.
The Sleep Solution is an exciting journey of sleep self-discovery and understanding that will help you custom design specific interventions to fit your lifestyle. Drawing on his 24 years of experience within the field, neurologist and sleep expert W. Chris Winter will help you…
Understand how sleep works and the ways in which food, light, and other activities act to help or hurt the process Learn why sleeping pills are so often misunderstood and used incorrectly – and how you can achieve your best sleep without them Incorporate sleep and napping into your life – whether you are a shift worker, a student, or an overcommitted parent Think outside the box to better understand ways to treat a multitude of conditions – from insomnia to sleep apnea to restless leg syndrome and circadian sleep disorders Wade through the ever-changing sea of sleep technology and understand its value as it relates to your own sleep struggles
Dubbed the “Sleep Whisperer” by Arianna Huffington, Dr. Winter is an international expert on sleep and has helped more than 10,000 patients rest better at night, including countless professional athletes. Now he’s bringing his experiences out from under the covers – redefining what it means to have optimal sleep and get the ZZZs you really need.
Includes tips, tricks, and exercises.
Customers say
Customers find the book highly informative and helpful for educating patients, with one noting it clears up misconceptions. Moreover, the book receives praise for its combination of humor and science, making it an enjoyable and engaging read that’s easy to follow. Additionally, customers appreciate its entertainment value, with one describing it as a fun read on a potentially scary topic. However, effectiveness receives mixed feedback, with some saying it works well while others note it doesn’t provide real solutions.
kbs –
Beyond “sleep hygiene” – educational, well written, and all around great read!
This has been a great read. It focuses on the nature of sleep, sleep habits, sleep disorders. Very sarcastic sense of humor is included. Some of the sleep education is a bit overwhelming but it’s important to understand it. I’ve been working with a sleep neurologist, who recommended this book to me, for about a year now and have seen improvements in my sleep but it’s still somewhat fragmented. This book is really helped me understand why it may still be fragmented. Highly recommend for anybody that has sleep issues.
Matthew –
This book has saved my life!
I had suffered from hard insomnia for a better half of a decade and by the time I came by this book I was at my wit’s end. I already tried everything – seeing doctors, reading a dozen other books on sleep, acupuncture, meditation, herbal concoctions, you name it – and still, even thinking of going to bed (and having another sleepless torture of a night) was enough to get an anxiety attack.And after all hope of alleviating this condition was gone, I tried this book – and it changed everything. Itâs been two months now, and I havenât slept that well in years!To me, it is superbly written, as it mixes cutting edge science, tons of clinical experience of the author, with heaps of irreverent humor. You read that right- this book is FUNNY! And to me, that was the crucial element. I was so tortured by the experience of constant sleeplessness that at first reading a book which told me it wasnât such a big deal, felt odd, but that was exactly what I needed to hear!The author convinced me to his arguments on an intellectual level, but then (and this was the hard part) made me live it on an emotional one, in large part thanks to the humorous approach. Nothing breaks through anxiety as good as a good laugh – and I was chuckling throughout most of this book.As it turns out, I didnât need any new âinformationâ per se. If you have troubles sleeping (and would you be reading this review if you didnât?) you probably already read a dozen other books and articles on sleep and heard all the Jeopardy-ready tidbits elsewhere. What is unique here is an author who was able to build trust with me and then sort of âflip the switchâ inside my brain that allowed me to sleep again. It allowed me to embrace the message that was not such a big deal – and it made my insomnia a thing of the past.When you go through sleepless hell, and you hear somebody say your insomnia is not a big deal you feel like driving up wherever the author is dwelling and dealing a hard on the head, but as it turns out – he was right. All my sleepless nightmare was self-made, and I had the power to let it go all that time, the only thing I needed was a trusted guide to get me through this, and to me, the author of this book was that guide.I went through the book twice – first on an Audible audiobook and then on a Kindle e-book. I was listening to it by night (to avoid light) and then reread the same chapters by day (to make it stick). What I found significant is that I read it on holidays, so my hotel bedroom was clear of bad memories of sleepless nights, and I was not burdened by work stressors, and during that break, I was able to build enough sleep-confidence that upon returning home the good sleep pattern came back with me. (I was afraid the first couple of nights that the improved sleep was just thanks to the holidays, and it wonât last, but it did!)Couldnât be happier with this book!
E2 –
Helpful
Great book. Easy read. My partner has significant sleep struggles and this book was helpful for us. It gave us some additional tools.
Alison Rachel –
This man saved my life
I am not exaggerating when I say that I owe Dr. Winters my sanity.In 2021 I had retained placenta that caused a postpartum hemorrhage. Deeply traumatized by my near-death experience, I developed insomnia that followed me around like a terrifying specter of death for years. On one occasion I lost 30+ pounds in a few months because I was so anxious about not sleeping that I had no appetite. I was able to keep myself from totally losing the plot with the sporadic use of medication to help me sleep, but I knew in the back of my mind that one day the medication would failâand I had no idea what to do then.Cut to late 2024-I decided to have another baby, and I developed debilitating and terrifying insomnia again. This time, I saw no out to my suffering and was convinced the stress I was experiencing would either kill me or send me to the hospital. Out of desperation, I found this book, and the turnaround was almost immediate. I laughed a lot reading it, had a ton of a-ha moments, then set the book aside and WENT BACK TO SLEEPING NORMALLY AGAIN.Other sleep resources Iâd used involved a long process requiring mental work, but Dr. Wintersâ whole idea is that your body will force you to sleep no matter what, so you donât actually need to stress over it. It was crazy how a problem that had plagued me for years really had a solution so easy that it seemed dumb when you think about it.The thing about this book is that you HAVE to trust what heâs saying to be fact (which it is). Your first instinct might be to take offense. The worst insomniacs are completely convinced that there MUST be something physically wrong with them, because itâs frankly embarrassing to think that our lives are being absolutely obliterated by a problem that doesnât actually exist. But once you accept that youâve bought into a false story about your ability to sleep, you WILL sleep again.
Melanie W –
This book is the perfect place to start for sleep education
This book has had such a profound impact on me that I own both the audio and physical book. Both have great delivery with compassion and humor. If you know youâve had poor sleep for most of your life, sleep books can be scary because we KNOW sleep is important but it can feel out of our control whether we get that quality sleep or not. I thought I knew everything about sleep health by knowing the basics of sleep hygiene but this book reveals that there is so much more to sleep than that. It revealed things that were in my control to change that benefit sleep. Maybe I had heard similar sleep advice/information before but it fell on deaf ears. Something about how this book is delivered really helped me engage and absorb the information this time. I donât tend to sit down and read for long, so I found listening to the audiobook version while at the gym to be effective. Itâs narrated well so give that a try if you feel like you donât have time to sit down to read a book. If you struggle with sleep, this is information you need to know.
LoveToLearn –
Spends too much time trying to be funny
The author spends a lot of time trying to be funny. The jokes aren’t even good and they end up obscuring key information.
Mahadev –
I had severe sleeplessness for almost like 4 years. I was even on SSRIs But after reading this book and other self helpful book I have been sleeping like a baby and I am off of any medication don’t know it’s a coincidence or something else but I am in peace now.
cuneyt –
Ik verwachte een nieuw boek, dit lijkt echter niet het geval te zijn.
mrez –
Zunächst vorweg: Ich habe das Buch noch nicht durchgelesen, aber bin bereits so sehr davon überzeugt, dass ich bereits jetzt eine Rezension verfasse.Ich habe bereits einige Bücher zum Thema Schlaf gelesen – natürlich wiederholt sich da auch die ein oder andere Information. Ich muss aber ehrlich sagen, dass ich dieses Buch absolut empfehlenswert finde!Besonders der Schreibstil des Autors gefällt mir sehr. Es ist sehr locker und witzig geschrieben, sodass es einfach nicht langweilig wird! Dazu kommt noch 1a Inhalt, was dann in der Summe 5 Sterne macht!
Amazon Customer –
Great book! I had problems sleeping but it solved it!
Maddalena –
Ho sempre avuto un sonno tribolato, leggendo questo libro ho capito un sacco di cose che non avevo mai avuto voglia di approfondire e soprattutto sono riuscita ad indivituare la causa del mio sonno tribolato.Scrittura scorrevole (l’ho letto per lo più al mare sotto l’ombrellone, per dire), da un approccio un più scientifico rispetto al classico articoletto da rivista patinata “come dormire meglio in 5 mosse”.Mi rivolgerò senz’altro ad un medico per curarmi, ma se non altro arriverò preparata!Thanks!!