Category: sleep

Late Bedtimes Could Raise Your Odds for Diabetes, Heart Trouble

October 5, 2022
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 If you’re constantly burning the midnight oil, you may be setting yourself up for Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. When compared with folks who go to bed early and wake with the sun, night owls are more likely to be insulin-resistant, a new study finds. When the body doesn’t respond well to the hormone…

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A Good Night’s Sleep Recharges Immune System

October 4, 2022
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If you want to stay well, make sure you’re getting enough sleep. That’s the conclusion of a new study that found that good sleep helps regulate a key component of the body’s immune system. Specifically, it influences the environment where white blood cells known as monocytes form, develop and get ready to support the immune function, a process called hematopoiesis….

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Tips for Falling Asleep and Staying Asleep–Natural & Chinese Medicine

September 30, 2022
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How much sleep do you get each night? Do you wake in the early hours, unable to get back to sleep? Poor sleep is another modern ‘epidemic’ that is weakening the concentration, souring the mood, and darkening the days of many people. Could knowing your ‘organs’ body clock’ or gauging your ‘metabolic efficiency’ help where…

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Trouble Falling Asleep?

September 29, 2022
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You might remember my previous article about nonrestorative sleep and waking up at 3 a.m., unable to fall back asleep. We looked at the roles stress and blood sugar dysregulation play in causing a nighttime cortisol spike that produces a hyperarousal state, making it difficult to fall back asleep. That marks one type of disrupted…

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Sleep and Immunity

September 28, 2022
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Is the link between immune function and a good night’s rest a myth? To really boost our immune systems, maybe we just need to get enough sleep. Or is that a total myth? Fact or fiction: if you don’t get enough sleep, it can impair your immune system. Believe it or not, we didn’t know for…

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Santa and the Three Bears (1970)

September 18, 2022
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When a park ranger tells two bear cubs about Christmas and Santa Claus, they want to skip hibernation to celebrate, but their mother doesn’t believe in Saint Nick and wants them to sleep. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: https://www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com…

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Children Missing Full Night’s Sleep a Week Because of Social Media Use: Study

September 16, 2022
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Young children are losing out on the equivalent of a full night’s sleep a week because their bedtime routines are being delayed by increased social media use, according to new research. Researchers from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, studied social media use and sleep quality in 60 schoolchildren aged 10 to 11 and found…

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Hypothesis: Circadian Rhythm Links Mental Disorders

September 6, 2022
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Anxiety, autism, schizophrenia, and Tourette syndrome each have their own distinguishing characteristics, but a new study asks if circadian rhythm disruption may bridge these and most other mental disorders. In a new study in the journal Translational Psychiatry, scientists hypothesize that circadian rhythm disruption (CRD) is a psychopathology factor that a broad range of mental illnesses…

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Tools for Optimizing Sleep and Sleep-Wake Timing

September 5, 2022
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Like to know exactly what to do in the early morning to feel refreshed and alert? Not only is this the most powerful stimulus for wakefulness throughout the day, it also helps you fall asleep faster at night, and stay asleep longer. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman details how to effectively harness light and darkness,…

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Tiredness Can Change How Generous You Are: Study

September 1, 2022
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What determines how generous you are as a person? Could it be how much money you have? How inherently kind you are? Or maybe it comes down to the values you hold. These are all reasonable assumptions. And, of course, how generous you are can change day-to-day. One factor affecting that daily inclination to generosity, according…

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