The heatwave took it out of most of us. Those long, sultry nights and the beating heat during the day that made the simplest task a real effort. And If you haven’t shaken off that hot weather tiredness yet, you’re not alone.
The sweltering peak of the heatwave might be over – at least for now - but many of us are still feeling sluggish and exhausted. So, now the mercury’s dropped back to a more reasonable summertime range, why haven’t our energy levels snapped back too?
It may all be to do with you having a ‘sleep debt', an expert has said. “People will have incurred a sleep debt – perhaps above and beyond their normal sleep debt,” suggests Dr Guy Meadows from Sleep School