{"id":75387,"date":"2025-05-20T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=75387"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:24:46","slug":"sleeping-better-thomas-penzel","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/after-dark\/sleeping-better-thomas-penzel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping better: sleep researcher Thomas Penzel\u2019s rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Good sleep starts long before bedtime. An expert explains what really matters for a restful night.
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Everyone knows the feeling:<\/strong> not being able to get to sleep, or waking up in the morning feeling that your sleep wasn\u2019t restful. But what is actually behind this kind of sleep disorder?
Sleep researcher Prof. Dr Thomas Penzel knows more about the causes, consequences and possible solutions. A physicist, human biologist, physiologist and somnologist, he is scientific director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Sleep Medicine at the Charit\u00e9 in Berlin. His research covers everything to do with sleep, including sleep disorders. Penzel and his team know of 67 sleep disorders. Some of them occur during sleep \u2013 sleepwalking, for example. Insomnia is different, because those affected suffer when they can\u2019t sleep. Sleep disorders are not rare. In Germany, around 7 per cent of people insured with the health insurer BARMER suffered from sleep disorders in 2022 \u2013 that\u2019s around six million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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