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There are plenty of articles full of information about the positive effects of a good night’s sleep. Certainly you don’t need to be a sleep specialist to know our physical, mental, and emotional well being are either positively or negatively affected by our sleep patterns. Ask a parent of a newborn, a college student during […]

So, you’re out of town on business and you check into your hotel. You’re tired from the long trip and in need of a good night’s sleep but it has been your experience that you just don’t sleep very well unless you’re at home. Regardless of this fact, you settle in for the night with […]

It’s 2:00 pm on a Wednesday. You’re in the office working hard on your latest project when you notice it is becoming increasingly difficult to focus; physically and mentally. You try to shake it off but as the minutes tick by your energy levels are marching steadily below peak productivity levels. You walk around the […]

The responsibilities and stresses of life have an incredible impact on our physical bodies. Over time, that impact can manifest itself in many ways that adversely affects our physical well being. The human body can only take so much before it needs to rest and recuperate. Most of us are aware of the need for […]

Are you frequently frustrated at how tired you feel in the morning, regardless of how early you went to sleep the night before? Do you have vague memories of waking briefly in the dead of night short of breath. You may be one of the millions of people world wide that suffer from Obstructive Sleep […]

Unless you have actually dealt with someone who is diagnosed with narcolepsy, it is common to think of the disorder as excessive sleepiness during waking hours. Although this is a symptom of narcolepsy daytime sleepiness is not all the disorder entails and can actually be attributed to a number of separate sleep disorders. Narcolepsy is a rare […]

Ever heard this one before? You’re sound asleep getting your much needed rest after a hectic and stressful day when you hear a sound coming from the other side of the bed. At first you think there may be something trying to dig through the floor of your bedroom. You wake your partner and the […]

Regardless of how heavily you sleep, if your significant other has a snoring problem it is often very difficult to get a good nights sleep. According to the Vancouver Sleep and Breathing Center 59% of people claim that their partner snores. If you aren’t one of those people but often notice your partner is grumpy in […]

Last week we talked briefly about a condition known as REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). This is a disorder characterized by a person physically acting out the dreams that they are having, with potentially dangerous results. Often when someone begins to show symptoms of this disorder they simply write it off as sleepwalking but there […]

We started this two-part blog entry last week when we discussed how REM sleep occurs in you nightly sleep routine. This time we will be going into why the brain requires  REM sleep and what makes it so important to our health. The true function of REM sleep is not fully understood as of yet […]