Thank you all for continuing to send in your questions about sleep! It is a huge passion of mine to share everything I know to help others reap the benefits of sleep. These questions were superb! Q: Hey, Brandon. Sometimes, I go without sleeping for two days – sometimes three – in a row. My wife […]
Chronic sleep loss could be adding more lows and stressful situations to your weekday without you ever taking notice. When you don’t sleep enough, factors like cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, and even an early death could cut your future plans short, and the short-term effects aren’t exactly ideal either. What would happen […]
The consequences of chronic sleep loss aren’t invisible to the naked eye. Last year, 31-year-old Andrew Bunch shared this photo with New York Magazine after only getting about 3 hours of sleep from May 12 to May 15, 2014. As the owner of Abunch LLC, Bunch was tasked with building sets for multiple events, including […]
Sleep is important as we all know, but somehow it continues to be the very least of our concerns. As the third pillar of health along with diet and exercise, sleep is seen as being the most dispensable. Negative attitudes toward sleep can bring you closer to insomnia and increase your health risks without you […]
After a horrible night of sleep, we usually aren’t our best selves the next day. The Center for Disease Control estimates that 50-70 million Americans aren’t getting sufficient sleep every night, with other studies showing that two-thirds of Americans share a bed with a partner. So how does this epidemic of poor sleep affect of […]
Often times we may know we are sleep deprived, but simply ignore the signs. In order to bring more awareness to the signs of chronic sleep loss, YouBeauty Expert and director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, Shelby Freedman Harris, shared what to look for to find out if […]
If you want to keep your brain healthy, you need quality rest. As we sleep, our brains are working overtime to solidify memories and remove dangerous neurotoxins. However, combining stress and sleep loss can lead our memories to fail us when we need it the most. According to a new study from Uppsala University in […]
Cutting back on sleep may seem like a great change in your life and you are reaping in the benefits. You simply enjoy staying up. However, Corrie Pikul at The Huffington Post encourages you to change your mind about your bedtime procrastination. What you think has a positive impact on your life is actually putting […]
Don’t believe there’s a link between poor sleep and poor work performance? According to a Harvard study, insomnia leads to 11.3 days of productivity loss at work each year, which is also equal to a $2,280 loss. The Washington Post tells us that the findings show as a whole insomnia costs our nation a total […]
Sleep experts often recommend tucking in and waking up at the same time every day to take advantage of more rejuvenating snooze. However, realistically there will be times in life where sleep loss simply can’t be helped. For those periods, the researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that […]
