3 Deepen your sleep by listening to pink noise!

Move over, white noise: Your rosier relative pink noise is a more effective lullaby! “Pink noise, which sounds more natural than white noise, is proven to promote deeper sleep,” reveals Deirdre A. Conroy, PH.D., clinical director of the University of Michigan Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic. In fact, adults in a Northwestern University study who were exposed to pink noise (perfectly consistent sounds like the soothing hum of the ocean) enjoyed more “slow brain wave” sleep, the deepest, most restful kind! To experience the bedtime benefits of pink noise, just download the free Pink Noise app at Google Play or the itunes store. ● It amps memory, too! Study participants who took a memory test in the morning performed a whopping three times better on the same test after listening to a pink noise lullaby the night before. Because pink noise sounds more natural than white noise, it stimulates more brain regions, particularly the hippocampus, the “cradle” of memory, where new neurons are formed!