5 BEDROOM TWEAKS TO HELP YOU SLEEP THROUGH THE HOTTEST SUMMER NIGHTS
GOOD ADVICE | ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV, JULY 13, 2017 | WellAndGood.com When the mercury rises, a truly great night’s sleep can feel elusive. (It’s hard to catch zzz’s when you’re searching for the cool spot on the pillow.) But rather than crank the AC, a more comfortable snooze session could be as attainable as sliding between the right sheets and laying your head on a cushion that won’t capture heat—plus a few other sustainable swaps—say healthy home experts Lisa and Ron Beres. “Creating a sleep sanctuary is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity.” Wondering how to kick off your hot weather …
Sleep apnea linked to worsening diabetic eye disease
JULY 6, 2017 | 12:04 PM | Will Boggs MD | Reuters.com People with both sleep apnea and type 2 diabetes have more than double the risk of worsening retina disease compared to diabetics without the sleep breathing disorder, a UK study suggests. Researchers followed adults with type 2 diabetes over about four years and found that for those with milder eye disease at the start, having sleep apnea was linked to higher odds that it would become more advanced. At the outset of the study, they also found that advanced “sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy” was already present in 43 percent …
Can Sleeping in Decrease Your Waist Size?
July 06, 2017 | Mercola.com By Dr. Mercola About 1 in 3 Americans are getting less than seven hours of sleep a night, and an estimated 83.6 million adults in the U.S. are sleep-deprived. If you’re trying to lose weight, you may be surprised to know the amount and quality of sleep you get might be as influential as your choice of diet and exercise. Research continues to confirm that sleep is an important factor in helping you avoid diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity. Notably, sleeping in on weekends — a practice quite common among teenagers — …
Home Test Could Be Life-Changing For Apnea Sufferers And Their Sleep Partners
June 20, 2017 7:06 PM | NewYork.CBSLocal.com NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Are you tired all day? Maybe you’re gaining weight, and your blood pressure is a little high — your problem may be something called ‘sleep apnea.’ As CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez explained, there’s an easy and safe home test to tell if you have it. Sleep apnea means you stop breathing and wake up for tiny periods during the night, causing serious health problems. It can happen hundreds of times a night without the person even realizing it. It used to take an expensive in-clinic sleep study to diagnose …
Apple’s sleep czar explains why he left to lead a startup called SleepScore Labs
Roy Raymann worked on Apple’s health team for more than three years. During his tenure at Apple, he helped develop features like Night Shift and Bedtime. Now, he’s left the company to join a startup called SleepScore Labs. Christina Farr | @chrissyfarr | Thursday, 11 May 2017 | 10:39 AM ET | CNBC.com The man behind some of your favorite sleep features on Apple devices has left the company to focus on a new start-up focused on tracking sleep. In 2014, sleep researcher Roy Raymann joined Apple’s growing health team from Philips Research to focus on using mobile technology to …
GET SOME SHUT I Apple is sick of your snoring and has BIG plans to help you get a better night’s sleep
Not content with taking over our every waking hour, Apple is coming for us while we snooze By Margi Murphy | 10th May 2017, 11:38 am | Updated: 11th May 2017, 12:46 pm | TheSun.co.uk NOT content with being the centre of our attention during waking hours, Apple has set its sights on our sleep too. It has snapped up sleep tracking company called Beddit, which tracks snoring and disrupted sleep. Beddit claims to improve your sleep using a monitor which can sense your movement. The app is connected to a strap you place on top of your mattress and …
#SleepBetterFeelBetter: Hospital’s Sleep Navigators reinforce sleep as a vital sign
by sleepadmin | Apr 26, 2017 | SleepApnea.org Note: The American Sleep Apnea Association is proud to include Kristina Weaver on our team as one of our all star AWAKE coordinators. On World HeHospital Sleep Navigators make sleep a vital signalth Day, we praised the idea of making sleep health a part of vital sign collection during each and every doctor’s visit. Why? Because sleep health itself is an indicator of general overall health and wellness. When sleep is poor, chances are extremely good it’s due to an undetected or untreated health problem. It might be an undiagnosed medical condition, …
Eating Less Salt Could Mean Fewer Sleep Interruptions
May 5, 2017 | Written By: Linda Jensen | MedicalNewsBulletin.com A Japanese study suggests that lowering salt intake can reduce the need to get up at night to urinate, resulting in better sleep. Waking up at night to urinate is not uncommon; in fact, doing so once per night is considered normal. However, a chronic need to get up multiple times per night to urinate – known as nocturia – can seriously interfere with sleep quality. If the condition persists over time, it can affect health and quality of life. While there are a number of factors that may contribute …
6 Expert-Backed Ways to Get Better Sleep
Alexandra Sifferlin | May 03, 2017 | Time.com Adults in America are chronically sleep deprived; one in three of us don’t get enough sleep. At the same time, doctors are beginning to realize just how critical sleep is for human health. “I used to say sleep was the third pillar [of health],” said Dr. Matthew Walker, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley during an expert panel on sleep at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference on Wednesday. “I was absolutely wrong. It’s the foundation.” But even though people know they should get the recommended seven …
Improve Your Sleep — and Your Life — With These 8 Tips
June 2, 2016 | PETER GASCA Entrepreneur, Startup Consultant | Entrepreneur.com On a recent flight from London to Atlanta, I had the good fortune to sit next to a very gracious woman. We bonded, not because we had a great number of things in common but rather because she did not complain or object when I inadvertently fell asleep on her shoulder. Maybe not drooling on her neck pillow saved me. When I awoke, we laughed at my narcoleptic tendencies and shared a few tips about how we both manage to sleep on a 500-seat tin can traveling at 567 …