[ **up: [[Wellbeing]]** ] --- # Sleep > ‘Insufficient sleep leads to health consequences including a higher risk for cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.’[^1] + The human brain adjusts to being sleep-deprived; that means you might think you’re feeling okay… but your body/brain really isn’t.[^1] - Sleep quality can be positively impacted by stretching and exercise.[^1] --- ## Sleep and ADHD - ‘Research during the last five years substantiates what ADHD experts have suspected for decades: ==ADHD carries with it intrinsic challenges to sleep==.’[^2] + **Practise good sleep hygiene**—a regular sleep/wake schedule, limiting caffeine, getting daytime exercise, keeping the bedroom dark and cool.[^2] - ‘\[…] several studies show that taking a **low dose of stimulant about 45 minutes before bedtime** can promote the onset of sleep as well as improve its quality and duration for some children and adults with ADHD.’[^2] - **White noise. - **Mindfulness meditation** (can help practising getting the brain to *shut up*). + **Regulate/reset your [[Circadian rhythms|circadian rhythm]].** [^1]: Gretchen Rubin, ‘Your ADHD Brain Needs More Sleep — How to Get It’, *[['ADDitude Magazine'|'ADDitude Magazine']]*, updated 9 October 2020, https://www.additudemag.com/get-to-sleep-adhd-brain/?src=embed_link. [^2]: Gina Pera, ‘Wired, Tired, & Sleep Deprived’, *[['ADDitude Magazine'|'ADDitude Magazine']]*, updated 12 March 2022, https://www.additudemag.com/wired-tired-sleep-deprived/.