Ways to get natural sleep and stay asleep as long as you wanted

Like every other individual all over the world, nearly half of all Americans suffer from occasional sleeplessness and among the staggering 15 percent Americans who are having chronic, unremitting insomnia.

As the world becomes to more competitive and stressful, we live in a culture where resorting to medication tends to be the first-line treatment.

Most people only know about the medications available to treat insomnia: We constantly hear about them on TV, and many friends write about their insomnia sleeping pill use on social media (in the middle of the night). Medications can indeed be helpful for insomnia, and they surely have their place in insomnia management. 

However, many people are not aware that sleep specialists do not consider sleeping pills to be the first-line treatment for insomnia. Instead, sleep medicine's gold standard treatment for insomnia is cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia, which is also known as CBT-I. CBT-I is a non-drug, short-term treatment and has benefitted people of all ages and many types of patients who have trouble sleeping, including those with insomnia related to chronic pain, depression or anxiety. CBT-I consistently produces results that are comparable to, or even exceed, those of sleeping pills. Even one year after ending treatment, many patients continue to sleep well (rates that far outperform sleeping pills). Read more