Sleep 17 - Drink - After 6pm don’t drink or eat anything containing caffeine. Coffee, tea, or chocolate.

After 6pm (or 6 hours before your usual time of sleeping) don’t drink or eat anything containing caffeine. So, for example coffee, tea, or chocolate.

Why?
Caffeine as well as being a stimulant, increasing the release of the stress hormone cortisol into your body, is also a diuretic.

Decaf options? There are so many decaffeinated options available now for teas and coffees. Chocolate is not so easy to find
Since changing I have seen an increase in my quality of sleep

And don’t forget to drink water, which will keep you from feeling sluggish without posing any threats to your nighttime routine.

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Sleep 16 - Audio - Robert Rich’s sleep albums - Somnium, 2001 (7 hrs), Perpetual: A Somnium Continuum, 2014 (8 hrs)

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Sleep 18 - Drink - Don’t have an alcoholic drink in the couple of hours before going to sleep.