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Dopamine and Insomnia: Can a Neurotransmitter Imbalance Destroy Your Sleep?

You’re lying in bed and your brain is doing that thing again. Not worrying, exactly. More like… seeking. Scrolling through ideas. Rehearsing conversations. Planning tomorrow. Jumping from thought to thought with a restless energy that feels almost pleasurable — except it’s 1 a.m. and you desperately need to sleep. Or maybe the opposite: you’re flat. […]

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Vagus Nerve Exercises for Sleep: How to Calm Your Nervous System at Night

You’ve heard the standard advice: “relax before bed.” Read a book. Take a bath. Put the phone down. And those things can help — at the margins. But if your nervous system is genuinely stuck in sympathetic overdrive, surface-level relaxation is like whispering “calm down” to someone mid-panic attack. The right sentiment. The wrong tool.

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