How to Reset Your Sleep Schedule
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Healthy sleep schedules can get out of whack during the summer season. Andrea Petersen, reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering consumer health and author of On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety (Crown, 2017), discusses her latest reporting on how to get it back on track.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lehrer on WNYC and to wrap it up today, how have you been sleeping? |
| 0:16.3 | If you've been traveling to different time zones over the summer or socializing a bit |
| 0:21.8 | later than usual, you might find your sleep schedule is not where it should be right now. |
| 0:26.9 | Maybe you're going to bed later than you'd like and waking up groggy, needing extra coffee |
| 0:32.0 | throughout the day or taking naps during your lunch break, taking melatonin at night, |
| 0:37.3 | maybe something stronger. |
| 0:39.1 | With kids going back to school in the end of summer Fridays, we all could use more energy |
| 0:43.4 | to get through our days. |
| 0:44.6 | So let's wrap up today's show by taking a good look at habits to improve our sleep hygiene. |
| 0:49.9 | We did a certain kind of advice segment in the month of August. |
| 0:53.1 | We're going to do this kind for today. |
| 0:56.1 | Bring us now to help us get back on track as Andrea Peterson, reporter at the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:01.4 | covering consumer health, her latest piece is titled, Why Are You So Tired? |
| 1:06.1 | Your sleep schedule needs a reset and Andrea is also the author of the book covering consumer |
| 1:14.1 | health on edge a journey through anxiety, on health on edge, I should say, a journey |
| 1:22.5 | through anxiety that came out in 2017. |
| 1:25.4 | Andrea, thanks for joining. |
| 1:26.7 | Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:28.7 | Thanks for having me, Brian. |
| 1:30.9 | And listeners, we're opening up the phones right away for your tips or tricks to fix your |
| 1:36.0 | sleep schedule or your questions for our guest, Andrea Peterson 212-433-9692. |
| 1:47.8 | Do we even need to say why proper sleep hygiene is important? |
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