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A new cookbook, Eat Better, Sleep Better, touts the virtue of certain foods and dishes to improve your sleep

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Raise your hand if you’ve struggled with sleep issues. (Hi!) Getting up in the middle of the night, not being able to fall asleep— “about 70 million people [in the US] report some form of sleep disorder,” writes nutrition scientist Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD. Meaning, you’re not alone. Her first cookbook, Eat Better, Sleep Better (Simon Element), written with recipe developer Kat Craddock, shares her solution: Updating your daily diet and eating routines to incorporate more functional foods (such as legumes, tart cherries, almonds, and walnuts) that can improve your overall relationship with sleep. The book is full of her helpful research (she’s spent her entire career studying the correlation between food and sleep) as well as 75 recipes that bring functional foods together in delicious ways, and an air-tight 28-day meal plan that is both approachable and doable. We caught up with Dr. St-Onge to learn more about what went into the making of her cookbook—and to hear how she herself sleeps.