The beauty industry makes billions of dollars each year as many people always want to look and feel their best. However, there is one answer to the fear of getting older that is absolutely free! Check out these reasons why sleep is the cheapest way to boost your health and keep you youthful that we […]
Sleep is an amazing process that boosts our overall health and happiness. Have you ever wondered exactly happens while you snooze? Sleep restores your body every night to prepare for the next day. Here’s a list of how specific regions of your body are affected by sleep that we found on Body+Soul: Your eyes: As you […]
Getting enough sleep is just as important your diet and physical activity, especially for our brains. Scientist haven’t quite been able to figure out exactly why we need sleep, but there are important functions and purposes that have been discovered. We know that during sleep our brains are hard at work preparing us for the […]
Take a moment to think about how you’ve been sleeping lately. Where does high-quality sleep fall on your list of priorities? Putting sleep first is a great way to improve your overall quality of life, inspiring creativity, happiness, productivity and boost your health. It can be hard to consistently tuck in for 7-9 hours each […]
Consistently suffering from insomnia can make you more than just a little under the weather. Diabetes, hypertension, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, poor brain health and even an earlier death have all been linked to a lack of sleep. Researchers have long thought that increased inflammation in the body that overtime becomes chronic due to […]
As the fall season line-up of TV shows approaches, many of us are going to be tempted to stay up longer in order not to miss anything. However, staying in tune with Scandal and Sleepy Hollow isn’t as essential to your health as 7-9 hours of high-quality sleep every night is! Dr. Robert Rosenburg of […]
College students are notorious for poor sleep habits between maintaining classes, social lives, and possibly a job. However, a new small study was presented this year at SLEEP 2014 indicating that students who sleep poorly are more likely to get perform poorly academically and withdraw from courses, compared to students with healthy sleep habits. Data from more […]
Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing multiple times during sleep. And, its severity may be a predictor of the aggressiveness of malignant skin melanoma, or skin cancer, according to a study performed in Spain. A link between sleep apnea and mortality, as well between sleep apnea and the […]
What are your reasons for making sleep a priority in your life? You may want to add another reason to your list thanks to the frightening results of a new study published this month in the journal Neurology. Lead researcher Claire E. Sexton, DPhil with the University of Oxford and her team found that while our brains naturally […]
Do you still find yourself not making time for sleep and instead giving in to a Netflix binge or scrolling through your Facebook feed at night? The truth is that those late night decisions work against you over time, increasing dangerous health risks and taking away your energy during your work day. Great snooze is […]
