During the recommended 7 to 8 hours of rest every night, your brain undergoes several stages of sleep cycle. In adults, the sleep cycle primarily includes two phases: non-REM and REM sleep. The first two stages of the non-REM phase…
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that affects your breathing, causing it to stop and start repeatedly. For many people, sleep apnea may involve a lot of snoring and being tired, despite a full night’s rest. According to Johns Hopkins…
You know how important sleep is for your mental health and your productivity at work. Sure, in years past, you might have adopted the “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” attitude, but you noticed that cheating on sleep left you with…
Sleeping positions and what they mean has been a topic researchers have been interested in for years. Director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, Professor Chris Idzikowski, and sleep researcher Samuel Dunkell (both of whom have penned books based on their…
Running to the bathroom during the middle of the night to alleviate yourself after too many sips of water? We’ve all been there, and it is certainly frustrating, but that isn’t the only reason you should avoid drinking water before…
You’re lying in bed, staring up at the ceiling, and hoping that any minute now, a wave of sleep will hit you like a ton of bricks. If you’ve been staring at that ceiling for a while now, you’re in…
Light is the driving force behind our natural circadian rhythm, according to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Shifting between the sunlight of day and darkness of night within a 24-hour period affects our behaviors and our physical biology…
If you have sleep apnea – a condition in which your airway gets blocked while you sleep — or have family members who do, you’re probably familiar with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines, which are one of the most common…
Napping is a guilty pleasure we don’t often talk about. When you’re a toddler, you’re put to bed during the day; when you’re older, post-lunch siestas might even become a regular thing. As it turns out, napping can do more…
If you have heart or circulatory conditions like arrhythmia, angina (chest pain), coronary artery disease, heart failure, or high blood pressure, you could be on beta blockers, a class of medications that works by blocking the release of stress hormones adrenaline…
