At the end of the article, there are tips from Kripke how to improve sleep behavior – good and natural one. A six-year study Kripke headed up of more than a million adults ages 30 to 102 showed that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate than those who get 8 hours of sleep. The risk from taking sleeping pills 30 times or more a month was not much less than the risk of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, he says. Sleep Deprivation: The Great American Myth – [Fox News]
