Veterans plagued with sleep problems
Joseph Arsenault of Bernardston displays the CPAP breathing machine he wears to help with his sleep apnea. Gazette Staff/Sarah Crosby By LISA SPEAR | For The Recorder | Monday, January 16, 2017 – Recorder.com Air Force veteran John Paradis’ snoring stutters like a chainsaw before he stops breathing. Paradis, 53, of Northampton gasps for air, choking back to consciousness after his airways collapse over and over again throughout the night. He is fighting to get a full night’s rest because he suffers from obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that stops his breathing more than 30 times every night. He wakes …
Getting Older, Sleeping Less
JANUARY 16, 2017 – The New York Times| Personal Health | By JANE E. BRODY | Photo Credit Paul Rogers Insomnia is like a thief in the night, robbing millions — especially those older than 60 — of much-needed restorative sleep. As the king laments in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? The causes of insomnia are many, and they increase in number and severity as people age. Yet the problem is often …
Largest Consumer Sleep Study Just Released at CES 2017
SleepScore Labs Reports Provocative New Insights from 1.5 Million Nights of Sleep Highlights: 79% of people get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep America’s SleepScore is 77 (out of 100) More than 30% have a SleepScore of 55 or less Women sleep longer – men average 5 hours, 45 minutes, while women average 6 hours, 9 minutes On average, Americans go to bed at 10:21 p.m. and wake up at 7:41 a.m. – people in the Pacific time zone go to bed latest, and people in the Eastern time zone get up earliest 30 minutes of exercise correlates …
WARNING! Don’t ignore the snore
Kalpana Sharma | TNN | Updated: Jan 9, 2017, 12.53 PM IST Snoring is seen more of a bedtime annoyance for people sleeping together, but little do they know that snoring could be a sign of an underlying health issue called Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). It is one of the most under diagnosed sleep disorders and is more like a silent epidemic. Very few know about the condition and fewer seek treatment. So how do you know if you are suffering from OSA? Dr Navdeep Kumar MD (Medicine), DNB (Neurology) at Indo Gulf Hospital & Diagnostics informs, “If you snore, …
Struggling to get a good night’s sleep? Ditch those alarm apps for a start
Sleep hygiene is a priority for our tech-obsessed society in 2017. Dec 29th 2016, 9:45 PM | TheJournal.ie AT THE BEST of times, a good night’s sleep can feel like the most elusive thing ever. Getting enough sleep plays a vital role in ensuring a healthy lifestyle yet with busier lives, more distractions and the many stresses of day-to-day life, getting enough sleep can feel like an impossible task. The good news is if you’re not suffering from a condition, it’s more than possible to get a regular sleep pattern again. The bad news is it will require you to …
Studies About Later School Start Times May Be ‘Weak,’ But Move Likely Would Help Teens Sleep Better
DEC 27, 2016 @ 09:57 AM | Rita Rubin , CONTRIBUTOR If you have teenagers in your house like I do, you probably haven’t seen much of them before noon during winter break. That’s because they’re luxuriating in the freedom to sleep past dawn. “It has been increasingly recognized that high school students get less sleep than is recommended,” write the authors of a review article in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. No duh! They have to get up so darn early these days. Anecdotal information suggests high schools start earlier than they did back …
How to Handle Snoring
Erica Van Buren Josephine Magazine | Dec 6, 2016 | NewPressnow.com For some couples, dealing with a snoring partner is an ongoing battle. But snoring could be a sign there’s something else going on. Some battle through it shoving and kicking throughout the night until neither one of you gets a good night’s sleep. But that isn’t the best way to handle it. “Snoring isn’t a disease per se,” says Dr. Asad Kabir with Mosaic Life Care. “It’s a symptom or a manifestation of a possible underlying disease.” Snoring is caused by vibrating tissues within the airways of the nose …
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