Wearing Sunglasses Before Bed Might Help You Sleep Better, Because Light Has A Surprising Effect On Your Body.
By GEORGINA LAWTON | Sep 29 The side effects that result from a lack of sleep are numerous and worrying: Mood swings, cognitive impairment, irregular heartbeat, increased stress… I could go on. But one strange trick to help you sleep easier that may have escaped mainstream research is wearing sunglasses before bed. I know, I know — it sounds really weird. But bear with me; I promise it’ll be useful. Some scientists postulate that slipping on a pair of sunnies when it gets close to bedtime is the key to better shut-eye, largely because it might help …
Study On Sleep Quality For Astronauts Led By NASA.
OCT 4, 2016 BY JOSE BUTTNER Being out in space in not an easy task, as daily routine can get at least different, if not entirely complicated. This is why NASA decided to study sleep quality as one of the important features of spending time in space. Researchers observed the effects of sleep deprivation and point out the importance of good sleep for space explorers. NASA scientists studied the case of Mir, a Russian space station. The spacecraft functioned for fifteen years (1986-2001), and for almost twelve years it has been inhabited. Vasily Tsibliyev was one of the astronauts …
Poor Sleep May Impair the Ability to Feel Empathy.
Linda Wasmer Andrews If you don’t snooze, you lose some of your capacity for emotional empathy. Posted Oct 03, 2016 Emotional empathy is the ability to share the emotional experience of others. It’s often the driving force behind caring, compassionate behavior. And it’s something that may be in short supply after a bad night’s sleep, according to anew study published online last month by the Journal of Psychophysiology. Lead author Veronica Guadagni, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate at NeuroLab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, sums up the main finding this way: “If individuals describe their quality …
Why you should never use alcohol to help you fall asleep, according to science.
Lydia Ramsey | Sep. 24, 2016, 11:00 AM That glass of wine right before bed may make you feel drowsy, but don’t rely on it for quality sleep. Scientists have been studying the counterintuitive relationship between the drowsiness that comes from drinking alcohol and actual sleep since at least the 1930s. “If you drink alcohol before bed, it actually makes you fall asleep faster and sleep deeper, but then your body starts to metabolize that alcohol, and you’ll go through withdrawal,” Thomas Roth, director of the Henry Ford Sleep Research Center , told Business Insider’s Christina Sterbenz. “Your sleep will be …
Not all sleep apnea patients are obese.
September 26, 2016 Illustration of obstruction of ventilation. Credit: Habib M’henni / public domain Contrary to popular opinion, not all people who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are obese. However, a new study from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and the Prince of Wales Hospital (POWH) highlights that normal-to-overweight patients with OSA likely require a different approach to treatment, which presents a challenge to clinicians. Obstructive sleep apnoea, a common condition that affects more than one million Australians, occurs when the throat closes off many times throughout the night – up to 100 times per hour of …
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 …
Sleep problems often at core of wider health problems, experts say.
Melanie Swan September 16, 2016 Updated: September 16, 2016 11:20 PM DUBAI // Under-diagnosis of sleep disorders is believed to be the cause of a wide range of health conditions, from depression to heart attacks. Human beings spend more than a third of their lives asleep, so it should not really be a surprise that a lack of it can be behind so many major health problems. Dr Mohammed Al Houqani, director of the Al Ain Sleep Laboratory and assistant dean for medical education at the college of medicine and health sciences at UAE University, said health professionals needed …
WHY IS IT SO DAMN HARD TO FALL ASLEEP ON SUNDAYS?
In theory, Sundays should be devoted to downtime and total relaxation. There’s nowhere you have to be — except your couch, your kitchen, and maybe a boozy brunch. But in reality, how many of us spend Sundays feeling like crap and eating like crap until we finally turn off Game of Thrones, crawl into bed, and try desperately to sleep? (Guilty as charged.) Then the next thing you know it’s 2am and you’re staring down Monday morning with bloodshot eyes and sweaty palms. If you’ve ever experienced this late-night anxiety on Sundays, know you’re not alone.One survey found that 76% …
WHY WE ALWAYS GET SICK WHILE TRAVELING – AND HOW TO PREVENT IT.
TRAVEL, SLEEP LOSS, AND STRESS CAN ALL WREAK HAVOC ON OUR IMMUNE SYSTEMS By Chelsea Harvey September 14, 2016 Last weekend, bystanders watched as Hillary Clinton unsteadily left a Sept. 11 memorial service in New York City, stumbling as aides helped her into her waiting vehicle. Shortly thereafter, Clinton’s physician released a statement explaining that the Democratic presidential nominee had recently been diagnosed with pneumonia. But it’s not just Clinton who’s been sick, subsequent reports suggest. People reported on Monday that multiple other members of her campaign team have also recently been struck with illnesses ranging from dehydration to respiratory …
Age Matters: Family members can be first to notice symptoms of sleep apnea.
By Dr. Michael Camardi Special to The Roanoke Times | Posted 2 weeks ago Dear Dr. Camardi, When I came to you three years ago, I was sure the reason I was so tired all day was that I had sleep apnea. But, no, you figured out that the reason I wanted to sleep all the time was that my husband’s snoring was keeping me up and that he may have had the sleep apnea! When his doctor sent him to sleep specialists, the test showed he actually stopped breathing almost 300 times in one night. I have to …
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