We’re entering into the peak travel season of the year. Almost everyone has a flight booked somewhere, whether it’s to visit relatives for christmas, or for that tropical family vacation that you’ve been looking forward to all year. So what do you do during those long flights here, there, and everywhere? Sure you can check up on emails, or watch a few episodes of your favorite show on a streaming device, but maybe the best use of your time is to sleep. Sleep is a proven solution for beating jet lag, stress, and other problems associated with air travel. Plus, it helps pass the time in a hurry. That’s easier said than done though, as airlines haven’t exactly been very...
The feeling you get when you don’t get enough sleep on the most comfortable mattress can haunt you for the rest of the day. You know the feeling: groggy, sore, and irritable. Now a new study shows why you feel that way, and big surprise, it’s happening on a cellular level. Researchers at UCLA have done the most complete brain studies of sleep-deprived patients to date, which offered up some tantalizing clues into why our brain’s feel like they’re running on empty when you haven’t been getting enough time in your most comfortable bed. The study looked at the activity of brain cells in sleep-deprived patients. They saw that the cells’ activity slowed as the night wore on. This...
As a parent, bedtime can be a struggle. You may have bought them the best mattress, but it doesn’t matter if they’re running all over the house, jumping on the bed, or watching youtube tutorials on their phone or tablet for how to make slime. It turns out that this last one may have detrimental effects on your child’s sleep that could lead to sleep disorders, both later in life and during these crucial years of sleep development.A team of researchers at the University of Colorado recently compiled research on the effect of screen time (be it phone, tablet, or television) on children’s sleep quality. The results were startling. According to the study, “Of more than five dozen studies looking...
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Disorder
Not getting enough sleep, sometimes by choice, or sometimes from underlying sleep conditions. When the body’s natural circadian pacemaker comes at odds with the environment, excessive daytime sleepiness disorder can occur. This can be caused most commonly by jet lag, shift work, or another sleep disorder that is causing napping during the day such as narcolepsy, sleep apnea, idiopathic hypersomnia or restless legs syndrome. Disorders such as clinical or atypical depression can also cause excessive daytime sleepiness disorder.
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When is REM Sleep REM sleep is a huge benefit to our brains and body, it’s the time during rest that we get to mend ourselves and creating lasting benefits that will manifest during our waking hours. So when is REM sleep happening? Like so many other health components, each REM cycle is unique to the person’s sleeping habits. There are some general rules for REM that we can look to. First, REM sleep stands for Rapid Eye Movement, as this is the physical trait tracked by scientists to show when the body has descended into that good, deep sleep. During sleep, the brain cycles through five distinct phases. The first four have various levels of consciousness, which cycle down...
