Category Archives: Sleep

Aging can affect your sleep pattern and overall quality of your sleep. Having the best sleep is very important for your health.  There are some interesting and specific facts about what tends to prevent good sleep.   While there are many different kinds of beds to help you sleep better, now there are many types of pillows that will help too.  A generation ago we only thought of one kind of bed, the spring filled bed. Now there are beds that are adjustable, natural and made of organic mate......
Proper sleep hygiene is essential for healthy living. The average person will spend one third of his or her life sleeping, hence the importance of good sleep habits. The following is a brief collection of advice for maintaining proper sleep hygiene. · Use Biological Cues: Do not try to sleep if you do not feel tired. Your sleep does not have to coincide with the clock. Try to sleep prior to midnight, though. · Use Nature’s Cues: In short, sleep when the sun does. Natural light is an......
Hard working day, problems at home, shopping, etc. gets so exhausting that there is no time to think about yourself, and lack of time for sleep emerges. Looking in the mirror, you see nothing but a pale face, lowered eyes and bad mood on the face. But do not be quick to use make-up. Nothing will hide tiredness. If you suffer from insomnia, or lack of sleep, no cosmetics will help. On free days and weekends, that is Saturday and Sunday, find the time to take a nap during a daytime. This wi......
One of the most misunderstood sleep disorders, people suffering from narcolepsy experience overwhelming desires to sleep during the day. It can be a dangerous condition, because the narcoleptic might fall asleep while driving or operating a potentially dangerous machine. Narcolepsy is caused by a brain dysfunction: a lack of receptors for hypocretin (a neurotoxin responsible for regulating sleep and waking – the body clock). No one knows how or why this dysfunction occurs. If you have nar......
Research shows that the lack of sleep leads to gradual obesity.  The less people sleep, the more likely they are to gain weight, as the lack of sleep triggers hormone imbalances that boost the desire to eat. The National Sleep Foundation reports that most sleep specialists recommend between 7 and 8 hours of sleep. Without the right amount of sleep the brain reacts by stimulating the hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain.  These centers regulate our food intake an......
Untreated sleep apnoea can progressively and significantly impair brain function. This is according to a medical study published in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. This is the result of a study conducted at the University of New South Wales. Professor Caroline Rae, the head researcher of the study, did this with collaborators from the Sydney University’s Woolcock Institute. The study was conducted on 13 men with severe untreated obstructive sleep apnea. They made ......
What is normally disregarded when people say they’re “sleep deprived” is exactly HOW your sleep deprivation presents itself. The answer to how your sleep deprivation happens can be the most valuable lead to your tailored sleep solution. For instance, trouble falling asleep generally has a completely different underlying problem to waking up too early in the morning.  Waking up in the middle of the night anxious and worried, is a different underlying problem to getting up......
Snorers often feel desperate when it comes to finding a stop snoring solution that will work for them. What they do not know is that, aside from finding the right solution, it is also important that they know the root cause of their snoring problem. There are various types of snoring devices available and at least one of these can definitely be the right solution for your snoring problem. For those suffering from sleep apnea, CPAP or continuous positive airway pressure is often the most r......
Snoring, also known as sleep apnea, is a condition that is mostly common to overweight people. It is largely caused by a blockage to the airways. This blockage can be caused by the over-relaxing of the muscles of the tongue and throat which causes these muscles to press or “sleep” on each other. When this happens, the airways get blocked or thinned out. Air which should have a natural passage through the airways will have to force its way through causing a frictional vibration......
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