Chill Out, Rest Easy
As you narrow down the factors to resolve your slumber mystery, you may realize your health is the common denominator behind achieving a good nights rest. Choosing the appropriate room temperature to sleep in can affect your well-being and sleep habits more than you think. Temperature can have a big impact on your health and […]
Improve Your Quality of Sleep With Exercise
When tossing and turning becomes habitual and keeps you up at night, there are a few options you have before running to the medicine cabinet or the nearest drug store. Reevaluating your current habits and changing your behavioral ways will improve your sleep patterns, starting with exercise. Believe it or not, tossing and turning is […]
Discovering Your Deprivation
It is not so much lack of sleep that has you tossing and turning at night, or bone-weary throughout the day. Rather, your brain activity has everything to do with your sleeping patterns, so first and foremost, one must learn to take back control of what’s been affecting you throughout all these perturbed nights. In fact, […]
Set an “Electronic Curfew”
It seems as though getting into bed these days doesn’t necessarily mean it’s time for bed. Rather, as soon as the sheets are pulled back, that’s the time you somehow manage to remember the email you didn’t send, the call that was never made, the text that you have been putting off or perhaps, that’s […]
How Much Is Too Much of a Good Thing? (Sleep)
We often think of sleep in terms of minutes or hours, instead of considering its quality. As the weekend approaches, and the amount of work days dwindle, getting more sleep is usually the first thing on our mind. You may have caught yourself saying things like, “I finally get to catch up on some sleep,” […]
The Chemistry Behind Sleep
We all have had those tossing, turning, exhausting nights that last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. If you struggle with any type of sleep disorder you are fully aware of the negative affects it may have on your productivity and performanc in life as well as your health. When sleep is […]
How Sleep Affects Your Skin
The term “beauty sleep” is jokingly tossed around a good deal in day to day life but have you ever stopped to consider there might be a reason for that nomenclature? Is there actual science behind that colloquialism? The honest truth is that the amount and quality of your sleep actually has an effect on […]
Is It Time To Replace Your Mattress?
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 […]
What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
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 […]
Understanding Narcolepsy
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 […]