Sleep & NighttimeGuide
How Does Alcohol Affect Sleep?
Why a glass of wine can make you drowsy and then wreck the rest of the night, what it does to REM sleep, snoring and sleep apnea, and how long before bed to stop drinking.
ArticlesTopic 10
Sleep & Nighttime
Night sweats, snoring, drooling, 3 a.m. bathroom trips and waking up exhausted.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Poor Sleep on Your First Hotel Night: What Studies Found
The first-night effect has laboratory evidence. The claim that half your brain stays awake, and the promise that your own pillowcase fixes it, need a closer look.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Binaural Beats for Sleep: What the Music-Only Comparison Found
A small two-week trial tested music with added beats against music alone. Improved scores in both groups did not establish an extra insomnia benefit from the beats.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Didgeridoo for Sleep Apnea: What the 25-Person Trial Tested
A small Swiss study tested months of taught practice. Its findings need to be read alongside the remaining breathing events and the comparison group.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Hydroxyzine for Sleep: What Five Studies Can Tell Us
The evidence combines different conditions and brief trials. Next-day sleepiness and heart-rhythm cautions need their own review.
Sleep & NighttimeExplainer
myAir Good Seal, but a Leak Email?
ResMed says short periods of high leak can trigger a reminder even when the nightly seal result looks good. Here is what to take to a fitting review.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Pink Noise for Memory: What the EEG-Timed Studies Tested
Two early older-adult studies used brief pulses linked to sleeping brain activity. Their findings cannot simply be transferred to a continuous bedside track.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
TOMAC for Restless Legs: Four RESTFUL Trial Checks
The prescription device outperformed sham treatment at four weeks. Here is what counted as improvement and what to ask before trying it.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
CBT-I With CPAP: Better Insomnia Scores, Mixed Machine-Use Results
Two trials support treating insomnia alongside sleep apnea. They do not establish one treatment order for everyone.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Positional Therapy Versus APAP: What the NightBalance Trial Measured
Longer device use and fewer breathing events were separate findings in a selected sleep-apnea population.
Tryptophan for Sleep: Night Waking, Dose and Safety
A review found a benefit for time awake after falling asleep. Only four articles supplied its pooled analysis, and its dose categories need careful interpretation.
Sleep & NighttimeEvidence check
Eszopiclone After 65: 4 Trial Checks
Twelve weeks of diary results need prescribing context.
