Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

This Nighttime Routine Solves 95% of Your Sleep Issues.

5 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this solo YouTube monologue, Ben Greenfield walks viewers through his personal nighttime routine, presenting six practical sleep hacks that he claims can resolve up to 95% of common sleep problems. He begins by emphasizing pre‑bedroom preparation, focusing first on maintaining an optimal bedroom temperature. He then discusses controlling light exposure, reducing stress, and eliminating disruptive sounds with foam earplugs. Greenfield also highlights the importance of creating a low‑EMF zone in the sleeping area and introduces a proprioceptive sleep mask that applies gentle pressure around the eyes to trigger a calming, parasympathetic response. Throughout, his tone is conversational and instructional, and he expresses confidence and enthusiasm about the effectiveness of these strategies.

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Alright, we just finished dinner. The family's downstairs doing dishes. I slipped up here to show you some of the top sleep hacks that I've discovered and what my own personal nighttime routine looks like and exactly how I sleep like a champ. And the first one we take care of before we even go into the bedroom, and that is temperature. We're going to move on to number 2, light. Number 3, and that is stress. Sound. It's not a good idea for your body or your brain to associate much of anything except sleep to be something that happens when you're in bed. You look by On my bedside, you're gonna be hard-pressed to find any business-based books. I don't want to be thinking about that stuff when I'm in bed. One of the best ways to distract the brain from racing thoughts is sound. Trusty set of foam earplugs because dogs barking, doors slamming, people getting up before me and walking around the house, cats meowing, alarms blaring, you name it. My bedroom is a low EMF zone, meaning I have this. This is like an Ethernet cable. This is getting messy, but this is real life, folks. Dude wipes crap on my face. Mouth safe. Mm-hmm-hmm-hmm. Enter the Princess Sleep Mask. The newer research shows that the proprioceptive stimuli, that mild pressure against your eyes, can actually have a calming, parasympathetically activating effect. Tackle those variables and I guarantee you will solve like 95% of your sleep issues.