Powerful Sleep by Kacper M. Postawski Reviewed

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In Powerful Sleep, Kacper M. Postawski dispels the myth that you need 8+ hours of sleep – it turns out this is pretty random number of hours that someone decided we should get each night which has become widely accepted as being true.

Postawski claims his Powerful Sleep program will allow you to:

1) Reduce the amount of time you need to sleep each night.
2) Improve the quality of your sleep.
3) Improve your daytime energy levels.
4) Improve your ability to concentrate during the daytime.
5) Eliminate feelings of drowsiness during the daytime.
6) Reduce your daily stress levels.

These are pretty bold claims! I downloaded the Powerful Sleep program around 4 years ago and have regularly referred to it since. Quite simply, the program fulfils all of the above claims!

Most of the internet eBook programs that I’ve downloaded over the years have left me feeling disappointed and slightly cheated – they lack depth of information, are badly written and/or contain information that is, quite simply, wrong.

My personal experiences with optimising sleep quality and reducing necessary sleep quantity have lead me to make many of the same conclusions about the wake-sleep mechanism that Postawski explains in Powerful Sleep.

I don’t agree with absolutely everything Postawski says, but the vast majority of the content is excellent.

Some Power Sleep highlights:

• The discussion about why sleeping for more hours than you need actually worsens sleep quality and leaves you feeling tired and un-refreshed the next morning is extremely eye opening – I have found this to definitely be the case for me personally.

• There is some excellent discussion on how body temperature fluctuates over a 24 hour period and why this is important to the wake-sleep mechanism.

I often talk about the importance of running a high waking body temperature on this website in relation to improving fat burning and raising energy levels –Postawski does a great job of explaining why having a high daytime body temperature actually improves sleep quality and reduces the amount of time you need to sleep.

• Postawski is spot on in his recommendations to get lots of natural light in the daytime so that melatonin will spike higher at night-time.

Postawaski recommends that people who can’t spend enough time outside invest in ‘bright light boxes’ (machines that give out light at high intensities) – I strongly agree with this advice.

• Powerful Sleep contains excellent information on tackling short and long term insomnia. Paradoxically, one of the most effective means of tackling insomnia is sleep restriction!

• The method presented for reducing the amount of time you need to sleep is highly effective – logs are included to track your progress and all that has been talked about earlier is tied together neatly.

The only way that you could fail to reduce your needed hours of sleep is if you're already at your ‘core sleep requirement’ (most people aren’t) – Postawaski explains how to determine what your personal ‘core sleep requirement’ is.

Ways in which Power Sleep could be improved:

• Postawski isn’t specific about the amount of natural light you need each day. I've found from experience that you don’t need to be outside all day to gain the alertness and psychological benefits of natural light.

I would say that you regularly need to get at least an hour’s natural light each day from being outside - more certainly doesn’t hurt, however! An hour’s time outside in natural light each day has also been shown to raise testosterone levels!

• Postawski isn’t a big fan of coffee and believes it is an enemy of wake-sleep mechanism. I, on the other hand, believe that regular coffee consumption is beneficial to health.

Having said this, I agree with some of Postawski’s recommendations in relation to coffee drinking: He correctly points out that people have differing tolerances to caffeine but suggests that the majority of people should avoid drinking coffee after 6pm.

• He’s a little old fashioned in his nutritional views – there are a couple of sentences blaming saturated fats on people needing more sleep (this is completely unproven).

In fairness to Postawski, however, it’s good advice for many people not to eat a heavy meal like a steak and potatoes less than 3 hours before bed if they’re looking to reduce their needed sleep time. He makes clear that he isn't a nutritionist so I’ll let him off!

Finally…

One of the great things about Powerful Sleep is that the lifestyle changes outlined to help improve sleep quality and to reduce sleep quantity will also help to create an abundance of energy in the day-time!

I feel this program is very impressive and would highly recommend you get a copy…

* Ed Clements, creator of muscle-health-fitness.com, is an independent health and fitness writer who specialises in dietary, supplementation and weights training advice for improving body composition and hormone balance.