circadian rhythm, fatigue, getting up early, sleep deprivation, sleep disorders
Sometimes, getting up early could be more harmful to your body. Why? We all know that “early to bed and early to rise is good for health,” but it might adversely affect your health if you blindly pursue getting up early without considering your specific situation. Some people are not made for getting up early ...
There is hardly any person who does not dream while sleeping. Dreams can be of many types and psychologists have tried to interpret their roots and nuances for years. Yet, everything about dreams is not known or understood fully. Some dreams are pleasant while others can be quite scary. Most people experience bad dreams, but ...
Insomnia is a condition that affects millions of people. If you are one of them, perhaps you need a sleep coach. There can be many factors that can contribute to a lack of sleep. Stress, lack of a healthy diet, and inadequate ambiance in the bedroom are some of the reasons that affect your sleep ...
Eating too much junk food has been linked to poor sleep quality in teens, a University of Queensland-led study has found. Researcher Associate Professor Asad Khan said frequent consumption of soft drinks and fast foods was strongly associated with sleep disturbance in adolescents around the world: “This is the first study to examine unhealthy diets and stress-related sleep disturbance ...
The opener to Matthew Walker’s TED Talk is not exactly what you’d expect to hear in a lecture about sleep. “Men who sleep five hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than those who sleep seven hours or more,” Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience, told the audience at the popular media ...
In a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, Vanessa Hill, Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, and colleagues at Columbia University, New York, found that short-sleeping fruit fly mutants shared the common defect of sensitivity to acute oxidative stress, and thus that sleep supports antioxidant processes. Understanding sleep has become increasingly important in modern society, where ...
Many people believe that snoring happens when a person is overly tired, and take it as a sign of sleeping well. Snoring actually indicates the presence of a sleep disorder, most commonly Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), which is characterized by frequent pauses in breathing while asleep. Severe cases of OSA may induce hypertension, heart failure, ...