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Your body needs at least eight hours of sleep each night to recharge and regenerate. When you can’t get a good night’s rest, both your physical and mental health suffers.

If you suffer from sleep disorders, try these lifestyle changes and practical tips that can help put the sleepless cycle to bed, once and for all.

Quick Reads

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Adios, Jet Lag

Cherries are a natural source of melatonin and can help you sleep better.

What’s My Alternative? Insomnia

Acupuncture can offer relief from insomnia.

Snooze News

Try our three techniques to help sleep come without the sheep.

Acupuncture Puts Insomnia to Sleep

Acupuncture can help beat insomnia says new research.

Safe Remedies, Healthier Kids

Homeopathy is good for childhood ailments from diaper rash and colds to tummy aches and the sore gums of teething.

Give Sleep a Chance

Bach's Rescue Sleep can help the restless recharge with a good night's sleep.

Rest Your Head

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia each year...

Survive Winter With Winter Cherry

In the East it’s called ashwagandha; in the West it’s called winter cherry; in your winter medicine chest, you’ll call it a superstar.

Awaken to the Walnut

The healthy walnut now has even more to boast about. In addition to protein, minerals, and omega-3 fats, it also contains melatonin.

Coffee Time

New studies show that coffee may lower your risk for type-2 diabetes.

Sweet Sleep: Yoga for Snoozing

A new study shows how yoga can help you sleep.

Sleep to the Beat

Listening to 45 minutes of calming music at bedtime helps elderly people fall asleep faster, sleep better and longer, and feel less tired the next day.

Red Tea: We’ll Drink to That

A South African import, rooibos, an antioxidant tea, showing up in U.S. health food stores might give green tea some competition.

Singing in the Brain

The idea that music can calm us in times of stress is as old as, well, humming.

Sleep on it

Wake up! sleep is one of the brain’s most powerful tools for learning and remembering.

Read All About It

This section delves deep into the heart of the matter. Click below to read in-depth investigations, article features, cover stories, and the inspirational journeys of others.

Sleep Saboteurs

What to eat and what to avoid to put insomnia to rest.

Desperately Seeking Shut-eye

Put your insomnia to rest with our age-by-age guide to getting a good night’s sleep.

Countdown to a Good Night’s Sleep: Instead of counting sheep, count the ways you can get some Z’s.

These 7 tips will help curb insomnia and help you get a goodnight’s rest.

Say Good Night to Insomnia

These two insomnia busters can have you sleeping like a baby in no time.

Dreaming of a Good Night’s Rest

Is insomnia keeping you awake at night? Try these tips for peaceful sleep.

10 simple ways to strengthen digestion

In Ayurveda, the body is seen as a single integrated system in which all the parts work in tandem to create balance and health.

Meditate for a Youthful Mind

Meditation is the classic technique to learn to take your awareness into the region of timelessness at will. In meditation the active mind is withdrawn to its source.

Trends in Alternative Medicine: What’s Hot

Gene-driven dietary advice, energy medicine for cancer and arthritis, plus six other advances that will change your life.

Nourishing Body

Taste your way to health!

Alternative Makeovers

Meet three run-down New Yorkers who reduced their stress levels and achieved better health through herbs, nutrition, mind-body medicine, and stress and time management.

In Search of a Good Night’s Sleep

There’s intriguing news about why some people can’t sleep—and more treatment options for all insomniacs.

Three O’Clock, and Counting

Putting middle-of-the-night insomnia to rest.

Spotlight on Chronic Fatigue

A promising strategy for chronic fatigue syndrome.

Diary of an Anxious Life

After years of being a worry-warrior, one woman learns that a tendency to fret is more easily managed than cured. Here she shares her hard-won insights.

Do Amino Acids Really Stack Up?

More isn’t necessarily better. Here’s the lowdown on the right—and the wrong—way to take these key body-building compounds.

Menopause Relief in a Tube?

Progesterone creams: Hot flash relief in a tube?

Homegrown Remedies

Get your hands dirty this spring by planting backyard herbs to beat insomnia, fatigue, and even forgetfulness.

Ask The Doctor

Everyone can use good advice. Below, we've gathered top queries and answers for you. Don't see the answer to your question? Email us and our team of experts with respond!

Jet Lag

I travel a lot during the summer and often suffer jet lag. What can I take or do to maintain energy and sleep well even when I cross time zones?

Meditate Before You Medicate

Ayurvedic medicine calms ADHD kids and lets insomniacs sleep like a baby.

Help for Insomnia

Get better sleep-ten tips for insomniacs

Q&A with David Simon, MD: Massage Therapy

The Healing Powers of Massage

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