Sleepio Ended My Sleep Where Emergency Weapons Fail

For as long as it lasts as I recall, I had trouble sleeping at night. Like most people, I struggle with my addiction and struggle to break free. Bedtime also triggers conversations, my children’s worries, or my favorite misconceptions in public and embarrassing gaffes. Early waking, hungry cats, tweets, and bladder all helped me to fall asleep. Whatever the reason, lighting a candle on both ends of the aisle has caused me a lot of stress, anxiety, and desperate.

That’s how I got to Sleepio, a six-week digital course that uses medical knowledge (CBT) to deal with sleep disorders, developed by Colin Espie, a professor of sleep medicine at Oxford University. Great Health Author Peter Hames suffered from insomnia but found success in CBT techniques after reading one of Espie’s books. The two teamed up to create Sleepio to bring clear, moral evidence to sleepers.

I am happy to say that it helped me. For the first time in a year, I slept about seven hours a night.

Woe to the Sleeper

Too many people earn less than Seven hours a night is recommended for adults. Sleep disorders come in many forms, but more than half of adults in the US suffer from insomnia, and 1 in 10 suffers from a chronic illness, according to American Academy of Medicine Sleep. Treatment falls into two categories; the aforementioned drug or CBT.

“Some clinical trials have compared the two, and the results are astounding,” says Rebecca Robbins, a sleep scientist at the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorder at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “We find that the system component also helps if it is not better than medical care.”

Drugs come with side effects and often mask the symptoms rather than addressing the root of the problem. Anecdotally, the drug makes me feel uncomfortable in the morning and doesn’t really help me in my writing. All National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and American College of Doctors Now choose non-prescription drugs, including over-the-counter treatments, as a first-line treatment for insomnia.

I have too tested several sleeping equipment and software that promise to close the eyes unfulfilled. Understanding what can work and how to choose from a number of such options is difficult.

“The market can be like the West Coast, because not everything is made with an eye for scientific writing,” Robbins says. “In order to differentiate noise as a consumer, look at the items on sale and see if they have been tested for clinical testing or if they were made in conjunction with any expert in sleep science or sleep medicine.”

Fighting Sleepio

One of the things Espie agreed to help make Sleepio was a placebo-controlled trial, like this, a test run and security before the software is released. In 12 experiments, over 9,000, Sleepio was proven to help people sleep 54% faster, use 62% less at night, and have a 45% improvement the next day.