The gift of sleep
Christmas is the time of year when we do everything to excess – except sleep. It can feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day for all the shopping, eating, drinking and socialising the festive period brings, let alone eight hours of slumber. Yet getting sufficient sleep determines how well we run, from cell regeneration to our mood.
‘How well you sleep at night actually starts from the moment you wake up in the morning,’ says Dr Kat Lederle, consultant human sleep and fatigue specialist at Somnia (somnia.org.uk).
‘What we eat, drink
