This Is Your Body on Sleep Deprivation
By Sara Gaynes Levy, Life by Daily Burn Do you know when the last time you got a full night’s rest was? If you can’t remember, well, you’re not alone, but your body is definitely asking for some serious snooze time—whether you can feel it or not. The American Sleep Association recommends eight hours of sleep each night and, though it varies slightly from person to person, you may start feeling the effects as soon as you dip below 7½ hours a night, says James Maas, Ph.D., former professor and chair of psychology at Cornell University and author of Sleep …
Catching up with OHSU scientists about their hyped sleep deprivation-Alzheimer’s study
Jan 12, 2016, 12:30pm PST | Elizabeth HayesStaff ReporterPortland Business Journal National Public Radio aired a story on Jan. 4 about the possible connection between poor sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease. Since then, dozens of news outlets and health and scientific journals have touted research by two scientists at Oregon Health & Science University into the possible link. OHSU researchers Jeff Iliff, left, and Bill Rooney are gearing up for a human study into poor sleep and Alzheimer’s pathology. I caught up with Jeffrey Iliff, an assistant professor at OHSU, and Bill Rooney, who directs OHSU’s Advanced Imaging Research Center, to …
Losing sleep: Stress robs us of 64 nights of a sleep a year.
ADULTS lose 64 nights’ worth of sleep every year, usually due to stress, a study has found. PUBLISHED: 19:45, Wed, Dec 30, 2015 | UPDATED: 19:57, Wed, Dec 30, 2015 The average grown-up gets just six hours and 36 minutes’ sleep every night – an hour and 24 minutes less than the recommended eight hours. This amounts to 511 hours over a year – the equivalent of almost 64 eight-hour nights, Stress is the main reason for insomnia, the poll found. A snoring or fidgeting partner, being too hot or cold in bed and worrying about money can also …
A sleep expert reveals the ideal start time for work and school.
ADAM BANICKI, TANYA LEWIS | JAN 1 2015, 2:30 PM Watch video: http://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-expert-says-work-should-start-later-2015-12#ooid=VyeDNrdzoqu6uw_MkgS6syfLY0G2z5cj A startling number of teenagers and young adults are chronically sleep deprived, and the answer is starting school or work later, one sleep expert argues. According to Paul Kelley, a sleep researcher at the University of Oxford, children between the ages of eight and 10 should start school no earlier than 8:30 a.m., 16-year-olds should start at or after 10 a.m., and 18-year-olds at 11 a.m or later. The suggestions come from a recent study published by Kelley and his colleagues in the journal Learning, Media and Technology. “At …
Increasing Sleep Time Raises T2D Risk in Older Women.
ENDOCRINOLOGY | 11.03.2015 Consistently adequate sleep duration over time appears best. by Salynn Boyles Contributing Writer Consistently getting too little sleep each night or increasing nightly sleep times over a period of several years were both associated with modest, long-term increases in type 2 diabetes risk in an analysis of women enrolled in the Nurse’s Health Study. Changes in diet, physical activity, and body mass index did not explain the finding of a small, but significant association with type 2 diabetes risk in middle-aged and older women whose sleep duration increased by more than 2 hours over the 14-year analysis. Regularly …
How Better Sleep Can Improve Your Running Performance
In a nutshell: It helps you make the most of your months of hard work and allows you to compete in tip-top shape. Getting ready to run a marathon? Getting enough sleep can help. By Shelby Harris Oct. 20, 2015 | 5:00 a.m. EDT It’s marathon season. As an endurance runner myself, I often feel there are not enough hours to get in my training amidst a world of family, work and other obligations. On top of it all, there never seems to be enough time for sleep. Runners who decide to enter a race (regardless of the distance) typically create …
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