Consumer Confidential: The Answer to Your Sleep Problems Probably Isn’t Found in a Pill Bottle
There was good news recently for people who struggle to get eight hours of sleep a night: They may not need so much shut-eye after all. And that’s bad news for the multibillion-dollar sleeping pill industry. Researchers from UCLA and elsewhere looked at sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia — groups with preindustrial lifestyles whose sleep patterns are believed to reflect those of ancient humans....
