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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Emilie Lavinia

Sleepmaxxing: Is the pursuit of the perfect night’s rest making us more anxious?

There are a slew of hi-tech tools and wellness products out there to help us sleep better – but which ones actually work? - (Getty/iStock)

If there’s one thing about me that those I know can agree on, it’s that I love my sleep. I haven’t always been very good at sleeping, and for many years I wrestled with insomnia and a chronic lack of deep sleep. Over the past six years, sleep has become an obsession for me and employed a raft of strategies, tools and technologies to improve my relationship with it.

Earlier this year, I stumbled on a whole subgenre of TikTok content dedicated to the practices I’d been carefully researching and honing, so I was pretty thrilled. Sleepmaxxing is the latest viral wellness trend, but unbeknownst to me, I’d been doing it for almost a decade.

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