Article: Rise and shine; Attention, exhausted boomers: a good night's sleep is not an impossible dream.(VITAL SIGNS)

MODERN SOCIETY IS WIRED in more ways than one. In the 24/7 world of the 21st century, the average adult gets an hour and a half less sleep than someone who lived 100 years ago. When people do sleep, they don't sleep as well. The National Sleep Foundation estimates that 70 million Americans suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. That's an estimate, because only 15 percent of sleep sufferers have been diagnosed by a physician.

Dr. Matthew Edlund is a psychiatrist, a sleep medicine expert and the director of Sarasota's Center for Circadian Medicine. He's also the author of The Body Clock Advantage and several other books on health and well-being. Sleep is his ...

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