Senchyna: Exercise leads to better sleep.
by Kerry Senchyna – Maple Ridge News Maple Ridge posted Oct 12, 2016 at 12:00 PM Sleep disruption has a variety of causes which can include stress, anxiety as well as a condition called sleep apnea. Lack of quantity and quality of sleep has profound consequences, which range from attention deficits, reduced concentration and mental processing, mental fatigue, as well as mood disorders, such as depression. About 70 per cent of North American adults report having trouble sleeping. However, exercise has been shown in past studies to help people attain better quality of sleep and recently more information about the …
The Surprising Reason You’re Sleepy All Day.
SAM BAILEY Last updated 09:45, May 6 2016 Slumping over your desk well before it’s appropriate to knock off? Before you blame those early starts, central heating or the “3pm effect” for the uncontrollable yawning, there might be another reason at work. And it’s not what you might expect. Latest research from Penn State College of Medicine has found obesity and depression are the leading causes of chronic drowsiness. The study, as published in the SLEEP Journal, analysed 1300 people over 7.5 years and found those who were obese and depressed showed higher sleep disturbances and excessive levels of daytime sleepiness (EDS). …
When worries stop sleep and then you worry about not sleeping.
By Cathy Johnson Posted yesterday at 21:07 Updated yesterday at 21:42 Being awake at an ungodly hour, your mind a tangle of anxious thoughts, is a wretched experience. Whether you’re thinking about work or family worries, the events of the day, or tasks you face tomorrow, it tends to kill off the chance of sleep. It’s a common problem, with “thoughts” second only to “needing to go to the toilet” in the list of sleep disrupters identified by the 20,018 people who completed the ABC’s Sleep Snapshot survey a few weeks ago. And when asked to describe in their …
Poor Sleep Health Could Contribute to Inflammatory Disease
Published on July 7, 2016 A meta-analysis reports that sleep disturbances and long sleep duration are associated with increases in markers of inflammation. “It is important to highlight that both too much and too little sleep appears to be associated with inflammation, a process that contributes to depression as well as many medical illnesses,” says John Krystal, MD, editor of Biological Psychiatry, the journal in which the meta-analysis was published. Substances that increase in response to inflammation and circulate in the blood stream, such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6), predict adverse health conditions including cardiovascular events, hypertension, and …
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