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Beyond leaving people bleary-eyed, clutching a Starbucks cup and dozing off at afternoon meetings, failing to get enough sleep or sleeping at odd hours heightens the risk for a variety of major illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity, recent studies indicate. “We’re shifting to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week society, and as a result we’re [...]

It turns out that sleep matters a lot for both aspects of memory. Sleep deprivation (and particularly deprivation of a particular stage of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement or REM sleep) affects brain circuits that make it harder to remember new things. It has a particularly big effect on information that is emotionally positive or [...]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2008) — Loss of sleep, even for a few short hours during the night, can prompt one’s immune system to turn against healthy tissue and organs. A new article in the September 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, by the UCLA Cousins Center research team, reports that losing sleep for even part of [...]

I want to take a step away today from my normal discussions about various training techniques or nutrition ideas, and look at another vitally important aspect in your life that plays an important role in your success with your fitness goals. And that aspect is… How well do you sleep? I’ve noticed that one of [...]

I sometimes have trouble sleeping . . . not so much getting to sleep, but staying asleep . . . so when I saw RESTFUL SLEEP by Deepak Chopra, I jumped at the opportunity to listen to the program. Subtitled THE COMPLETE MIND/BODY PROGRAM FOR OVERCOMING INSOMNIA, it delivered a great deal of information . [...]

My body is incompatible with Earth. It has a daily sleep-wake cycle that lasts about 28 hours instead of 24 hours, which means each day I stay awake about four hours longer than most people. In the middle of the week, I sometimes find myself waking up at 11PM and going to bed in the [...]

When my son was small I would hold him to get him to sleep. I didnt break him of it until he was probally far to old. He is 8 now. So then my 2nd child came along, now age 20 months…. he is held to get him to sleep too. I tried to break [...]

I generally like to start my reviews by saying what I liked about the book I read. In my opinion, the best and most important point made by this book is that sleep is vital for babies. Parents should be on the lookout for signs their child might be suffering from lack of it, and [...]