The Sleep Prescription

Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest

By: Aric A. Prather PhD

Narrated by: Aric A. Prather PhD

“Vastly knowledgeable and genuinely brilliant . . . An easy yet most effective how-to guide on sleep.” —Dr. Matthew Walker, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Sleep

From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days

We need sleep to survive. Sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. So how can something that should be so instinctual and automatic be so hard? Dr. Prather runs one of the world’s most successful sleep clinics and has cracked the code to help even the most restless of sleepers get a good night’s rest.

In The Sleep Prescription, Dr. Prather shares the powerful solutions that he uses to help his patients at the clinic achieve healing and restorative sleep. Going beyond the obvious solutions, Dr. Prather shares surprisingly simple yet deeply effective techniques that will help you lie back and let sleep work its magic. Over the course of seven days, this book will teach you how to get out of your own way, so that your body can do effortlessly what it was built to do: sleep well.


* This audiobook contains a downloadable bonus PDF that includes useful visual guides and a ready-to-use sleep diary to get you on track for consistent and restful sleep.

Critic reviews

Praise for Dr. Aric A. Prather and The Sleep Prescription

“The Sleep Prescription is designed to help you figure out exactly what’s troubling your sleep. Prather . . . takes us beyond anodyne tips like ‘turn off your phone’ and digs into the way our body responds to all of the various factors that make up our lives over the course of a given week. For each of seven days, the book guides you to focus on one aspect of building a good sleep routine, paying attention to how your mind works in concert with your body and the sleep habits you’ve built over your lifetime. . . . The Sleep Prescription is the first book that showed me it’s possible to understand the science behind it, and find a way to unlock those perfect, restful hours.”
—The Boston Globe

“Science-backed tips for sounder sleep.”
—The New York Times

“The vastly knowledgeable and genuinely brilliant Dr. Aric Prather can take detailed scientific concepts and distill them into wondrous bite-size chunks, digestible to all. An easy yet most effective how-to guide on sleep.”
—Dr. Matthew Walker, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Sleep and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California, Berkeley

“Deceptively simple and refreshingly straightforward, The Sleep Prescription is an immediately useful guide to getting better sleep. Aric Prather is an internationally-recognized scientific authority on sleep health and his advice can help just about any­one sleep more restfully in just a week.”
—Dr. Michael Grandner, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine

“The Sleep Prescription is a practical guide to improving your sleep and enhancing your life. Prather offers a set of transfor­mative and doable changes in sleep habits that can make you healthier, happier, and more productive.”
—Tom Boyce, MD, author of The Orchid and the Dandelion

“The Sleep Prescription is a game changer. It’s an original and ef­fective take on how we sleep and why so many of us struggle to do it well. A must-have for anyone looking to improve their wak­ing life by fixing their sleeping one.”
—Dr. Sara Mednick, author of The Power of The Downstate and Take a Nap! Change Your Life.

“Through a series of seven sensible steps, Dr. Prather guides us to relearn what our bodies and brains already know: we can use our voluntary, waking behaviors to influence the involuntary, restorative process of sleep.”
—Dr. Daniel Buysse, director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Helpful

Concepts in the book are helpful and work. Could do without all the racism references.

Great tools to easily put into action

Great book; easy to listen to, educational in layman’s terms with great tools/guides to move forward with! I’ve just started the 7 day process & have already noticed some improvements…very exciting to not stress about going to “sleep”!

Added to my Game Changers Book List!

I LOVED this book! It was on the greater good’s list for best books in 2022 and for good reason! I got sucked in within the first few minutes and was hooked by the author’s sincerity and positivity. I have struggled with sleep my whole life. In our family, we joke that we have a long line of not very good sleepers. This book really helped me! The book takes you on a 7 day journey to improving your sleep but I saw results the first night. The tips Dr. Prather provides are easy, practical, and things we can all incorporate. Of course, change is hard, but Dr. Prather presents his strategies for achieving better sleep in such a positive way! I thought that was the best part of the book! He understands people, real life, that everything is interconnected to so many things but still provides real examples of things we can all do to sleep better. I appreciated all of the ways Dr. Prather helped to reframe sleep “issues”, presenting different points of view. I also appreciated that he gave real examples of way to overcome real world obstacles. He touched on things like rumination. If you’re struggling with sleep this book is a must read for you, but even if you consider yourself a relatively good sleeper, then you’d still get something out of this book. The science presented is interesting and thought provoking. I highly recommend this book! Enjoy!

Empowering information

Very interesting discussion on how to create even better habits. His describes his work at the sleep lab and his recommendations.

Simple and helpful

I really like this book. I think the content was simple and useful. I would recommend it.