We talk a lot about good sleep hygiene and bedtime routines in our quest for better rest. However, there’s more to getting zzzs than buzzwords alone. So, we asked the sleep experts, what do they mean when they talk about our ‘sleep schedule’?
‘It’s really important to have a regular opportunity to sleep every single day that doesn’t change much,’ explains Stephanie Romiszewski, sleep physiologist and founder of Re:sleep (re-sleep.com). And so, adhering to a sleep schedule doesn’t mean, for example, that you have to go to bed at 10pm and you have to wake up at 6am.
Instead, it means that you know how many hours you need on average (it doesn’t have to be the same every night), and that you give yourself the chance to sleep for that number of
