Sleep blog
From the category archives:
There are two ways you can reset you sleep-wake cycle for easier sleep. According to a study from the Harvard Medical School, not eating for 12-16 hours regulates our circadian rhythm and can especially help those that work late shifts or suffer from jet lag. Scientist have found a “food clock” that takes over when we are hungry and overrides our main clock by fooling it into thinking it is a new day. How does this work?
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Putting your child (children) to bed can be one of the hardest parts of being a parent, as children will usually come up with every trick in the book to stay up even if it is just a few minutes longer. Even some infants suffer from parent separation anxiety. If you have an infant or toddler that has a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep, I have provided some helpful time-tested tips and techniques for nighttime parenting.
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Listening to a sleep sound or a self-hypnotic meditation insomnia remedy will help you to fall asleep easy and quickly without prescription drugs or over-the-counter medication. You will be able to think of only the sleep music or self-hypnotic Mp3 instead of your racing thoughts. Learn to relax and enjoy life again by getting a good night’s sleep.
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How to fall asleep fast and easy when taking the herbal supplement, Valerian. What is Valerian? Valerian is a plant that grows in Europe and Asia roughly four feet high and has trumpet-shaped flowers. Ancient Greece and Rome alchemists used Valerian for conditions such as sleeping disorders, indigestion, anxiety, headaches and for an irregular heartbeat. Today Valerian has also been used to ease stomach and menstrual cramps, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), some of the restlessness that accompanies attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and migraine symptoms. And, more rarely, it may be used to treat convulsions from a seizure disorder.
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Many of us have an occasional night when we can’t fall asleep due to the economy, family issues or work related problems. Here are 10 tips for easy sleep that will require you to change some of your sleeping habits, but will enable you to fall asleep easy in the long run.
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Sometimes it is not easy to get to sleep and the affects of many nights of sleep deprivation can cause you to become over-stressed and even over-weight. Here are a few tips and techniques that will help you to get the rest you deserve.
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One of the most important things you can do to help improve your sleep is to make your bedtime part of your daily schedule. As long as bedtime is disorganized you’ll have a problem getting to sleep easy. Don’t make your bedtime just whenever you happen to get tired, because you will probably go to bed later than you should. To reenergize your brain and body you need at least seven hours of sleep. You can get by with the occasional poor night sleep, but can’t endure chronic sleep deprivation without eventually showing signs of some health side effects.
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If you ever watched Boston Legal, Denny Crane played by actor William Shatner always blamed his “Mad Cow Disease” whenever he forgot something or blundered an important case. Mad Cow disease has similar symptoms to Alzheimer’s when people start out by having occasional lapses in memory. On the show Denny would do something out of the ordinary to keep people off track or unaware of his mild cognitive impairment. While this made the show entertaining, mad cow disease is no laughing matter. Luckily humans don’t get mad cow disease easily.
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According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine women suffer twice as likely from the sleep disorder insomnia than men. Insomnia can cause other health problems just like not eating a proper diet or lack of exercise. Many people take prescription sleeping pills such as Ambiem which is a popular sleep aid in the United States. Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods have taken this medication according to news reports. Before you decide to take a prescription sleep aid let’s consider some theories about how to go asleep.
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Restless Leg Syndrome or RLS is a sleep disorder that is described by an overwhelming urge to move your legs when you are trying to rest, especially during sleep. RLS may be linked to genetics as it runs in families and affects roughly 10% of the American population. Recent studies show that people with RLS are deficient in magnesium.
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So many people complain about not getting enough sleep at night. More than 1/4th of all Americans can’t sleep due to stress over their finances according to the National Sleep Foundation. If you didn’t get your 40 winks last night, here are some tips and techniques, over-the-counter medications, prescription drugs and natural sleep supplements on how to go to sleep easy.
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