Sleep is not a habit, but healthy nighttime habits can improve your sleep quality and quantity. Here are 10 ways to fall asleep and more tips to reduce daily stress, anxiety and even depression that cause restless nights. Read more »
Side Effects of Lexipro (Lexapro) for Sleep Anxiety
Do you worry about not being able to fall asleep which causes you to stay awake even more? This is what is known as sleep anxiety an endless cycle of sleeplessness that results in chronic insomnia. Most people know they have this problem but are unable to stop it. If you have sleep anxiety you worry about how much sleep you get and how it will affect your ability to function during the day. As you worry about your insomnia the worse it gets. Your insomnia becomes part of your everyday life and instead of doing something about it you learn to live with it or you decide to take a drug like Lexipro to treat your sleep anxiety. Read more »
Preschool Kids Can’t Sleep Easy Watching SpongeBob
Every parent knows it is hard enough to get kids to go to bed, but adding ‘violent’ TV shows may add to the problem. Digital distractions can lead to bedtime issues and now new research has found that kids can’t sleep easy watching SpongeBob or Scooby-Doo because they may be harmful to sleep patterns. Read more »
Link between Sleep and the Immune System
A new study from the researchers at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found evidence that there is a link between sleep and the immune system. Lack of sleep not only causes lack of concentration and moodiness, it can also reduce the effectiveness of vaccines. Their study’s link between the amount of sleep you get and the immune response to vaccines was analyzed by middle-aged participants in a sleep clinic who were monitored on a nightly basis to determine their sleep patterns than administered a three dose hepatitis B vaccine to see how strong their immune system responded. Read more »