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Do you really need a $299 gadget to de-stress? I pitted a vagus nerve stimulator against $0 practices — here's the one I recommend if you can't sleep

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To find out, I tried a $299 vagus nerve stimulator and pitted it against doctor-recommended vagus nerve stimulation practices you can do at home for free. Both methods helped me mellow out before bed and hit a sleep score of 96 on my Apple watch, but one has become my go-to stress buster.
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I fixed my 3 a.m. wake-ups and brain fog by syncing my sleep with the rising and setting of the sun, just like the Amish — doctors explain why this circadian living works

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Key takeaways: At a glance Our circadian rhythm is our body's internal clock, primarily regulating our sleep-wake cycle. The rising and setting of the sun acts as a circadian cue, triggering the production of the key sleep hormones we need to fall asleep and wake up. For me, modern life and artificial light has resulted in a disconnect between the solar day and my circadian rhythm. This has led to poor sleep.
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The Ozlo Sleebuds 2 launch today and I’ve been testing them for a week — here’s how they're already helping decode my 3 a.m. wake-ups so I can sleep through the night

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To find out more about what we could expect from the Sleepbuds 2 ahead of their launch, I caught up with Charles Taylor, Ozlo President and co-founder, to get the lowdown on the latest model. “The SleepBuds 2 are really our improvement after years of listening to customers and we realized there's a handful of things that people really care about, and we wanted to make sure that we release something that really knocks those out of the park,” Taylor tells me.
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