About Tips for Insomnia

Why this site exists

There is no shortage of sleep advice on the internet. There is a serious shortage of anything that helps a particular person work out which piece of it applies to them.

That gap is the reason most people have read a dozen articles, tried six things at once, seen no clear change, and concluded that nothing works. The advice was usually fine. The missing part was a way to tell which change was theirs, and a way to tell whether it did anything once they made it.

So this site is organized around that question rather than around a list of tips. There are currently 86 guides, grouped by the problem you actually have, and a free 12-question check that points at the one or two areas most worth starting with.

What we are, plainly

An independent publisher of sleep education, funded by a single $9 product rather than by advertising or supplement affiliate links. We do not sell melatonin, we do not sell mattresses, and we are not paid by anyone who does.

We are not:

• a sleep clinic, or any kind of healthcare provider
• an insomnia treatment service
• qualified to diagnose you with anything, or interested in trying
• a substitute for talking to a doctor about your sleep

How the free Sleep Friction Check works

It asks 12 questions about your own routine — how consistent your timing is, what your evening looks like, what your mind is doing at bedtime, when you last had caffeine, what your room is like, how your mornings go — and maps those answers onto 8 everyday areas we call sleep frictions.

The mapping is a set of editorial weights, written by hand and visible in the source code. It is not derived from data and we do not claim it is. What it produces is an order to work in, not a score: one area to start with, one or two after it, and a list of things to deliberately leave alone this week.

Two of the questions carry no scoring weight at all. They ask how long this has been going on and how your days are, and they exist only to decide whether to show a calm note suggesting that a professional look would be appropriate.

It is not an assessment instrument. It cannot tell you whether you have insomnia, sleep apnea, or any other condition, and no arrangement of twelve questions could. Read when to see a doctor about your sleep for the situations that deserve a proper look.

How health content is written

Health-adjacent statements are written from named public health sources: the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the NIH institutes, MedlinePlus, the FDA and the NHS. There are currently 30 sources in the registry, and every URL in it was fetched and confirmed to resolve before it was published.

The guides are drafted with AI assistance and then constrained hard. Automated checks reject cure claims, diagnostic language, invented statistics, advice about medication or supplements, and any external link that is not already in the verified registry. A guide that fails those checks is not published — it is regenerated or dropped.

That is a real process and it is also not the same thing as expert review. The editorial and review policy sets out exactly what is checked, what is not, and what we would need in order to claim more than we do.

Who writes it

The Tips for Insomnia Editorial Team. There is no invented sleep doctor with a stock photograph and no fabricated credentials, because a fake reviewer is worse than an honest absence of one. If a genuine medical reviewer joins this site, their real name and real credentials will appear on the pages they have actually reviewed, and nowhere else.

The paid product, and why it costs what it costs

Sleep Reset OS™ is $9, once. It takes your own answers and builds the routine around them: a wind-down worked backwards from your bedtime, a morning anchor, your bedroom cut down to three fixes, a caffeine test, a 7-day reset, a 14-day plan, the experiments worth running, and a Tonight Mode for the nights it goes wrong anyway.

It is priced to be an easy decision rather than an investment, and it is deliberately not a subscription. Everything it is built on — every guide, and the free check — stays free and ungated, because a site that withholds its useful content to sell the rest is not worth trusting on anything else.

What we will not claim

• That anything here cures, fixes or eliminates insomnia.
• That you will fall asleep in two minutes, or instantly, or on any schedule.
• That any result is guaranteed, or that anything works for everyone.
• That this treats sleep apnea or any other sleep disorder.
• Any statistic we cannot point at a source for.
• Any universal cut-off — for caffeine, for temperature, for hours of sleep — stated as fact.

If you find something on this site that breaks one of those, tell us and we will correct it. That is what the contact page is for, and corrections are logged rather than quietly edited.

Privacy, because sleep data is health data

Nothing you answer anywhere on this site is sent to us. The check and the product both run entirely in your browser, your answers are never put in a URL, and none of them enter analytics — we count that a check was completed, never what was said in it. The privacy policy spells out what that means in practice.