How to Get Better Sleep Tonight: What the Evidence Supports
The changes that help most tonight are free: alcohol, caffeine timing, evening light and a warm shower. What the evidence says, and where supplements fit.

The changes that help most tonight are free: alcohol, caffeine timing, evening light and a warm shower. What the evidence says, and where supplements fit.

No sleep supplement has strong evidence. Ashwagandha, magnesium, glycine, L-theanine and melatonin ranked by their trials, with safety notes.

Sleep loss slows attention first and reasoning last. Here is what the studies found on six-hour nights, catch-up sleep, extra sleep and caffeine.

Find what’s keeping you awake, then fix that: stimulus control, an earlier caffeine cut-off, a to-do list and a cool room, ranked by evidence.

Most sleep advice focuses on duration. The research is clear that architecture matters more — specifically the proportion of slow-wave and REM sleep relative to total time in bed. The complete evidence-based protocol for improving sleep quality from the ground up: environment, timing, temperature, wind-down sequence, and targeted supplementation.