Seventy million Americans have a chronic sleep disorder. One in three adults does not get enough sleep. And the sleep aid industry just crossed 83 billion dollars a year, selling you pills, apps, weighted blankets, and white noise machines to fix a problem that didn't exist 400 years ago.
Medieval peasants had no mattress stores. No melatonin gummies. No sleep consultants charging $300 an hour. They had straw, wool, firelight, and seven sleep practices so effective that modern medicine actively discouraged them for over a century. Practices that researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Sydney, and Cambridge University have now confirmed were not primitive habits. They were biologically optimal systems that matched the way your brain was designed to sleep.
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