Sleeping posture makes a difference to your health. Here is a compilation of 9 ways to improve your condition while you snooze. The average human being sleeps approximately 25 years in his lifetime. Human beings need sleep. Though, from what science understands, researchers still don’t know exactly why we need sleep. And it’s not just […]
A scientific study suggests vitamin D supplements could be used to improve the sleep quality of people with sleep disorders. For those who spend their nights counting sheep and watching alarm clocks, it might sound like a “miracle cure”, but could a simple dietary supplement pill really be the solution to serious sleep disorders? A team […]
Unfortunately, numerous people nowadays suffer from sleep disturbances, night terrors, insomnia, or sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person’s breathing is interrupted during sleep. People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times. This means the brain — and the rest of […]
Sleep plays a crucial role in our health and well being. According to sleep medicine specialists, a person should have at least 4 to 8 hours of sleep at night time in order to function properly during the day. However, not everyone meets this criterion as they often fail to achieve deep sleep, while some oversleep. Sleep disorder is defined as […]
How can something so simple as sleeping with weighted blankets be a solution to stress, anxiety, insomnia and more? Messed up sleep can create a long list of secondary issues that can quickly become primary concerns if insomnia or other disturbances continue untreated. Lack of sleep, whether it’s medically related or anxiety-driven, can throw off […]
A common cooking staple, bottle gourd (upo) is a vegetable with pale, smooth and waxy green surface and white spongy flesh. It is known by a variety of other names such as lauki, calabash gourd and white-flowered gourd. The juice of bottle gourd is consumed by thousands of people because of its astonishingly surprising effects to our health. Why Juice […]
There’s growing evidence that a lack of sleep can leave the brain vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease. “Changes in sleep habits may actually be setting the stage” for dementia, says Jeffrey Iliff, a brain scientist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. The brain appears to clear out toxins linked to Alzheimer’s during sleep, Iliff explains. […]
Every night, millions of people in the U.S. are struggling to fall sleep or stay asleep. For those with insomnia, sleeping can become a severe, ongoing struggle that has a negative impact on overall health and wellness. What Causes Insomnia? Insomnia can be caused by psychiatric and medical conditions, unhealthy sleep habits, specific substances, and/or certain […]
Adrenal glands contain a big part controlling the functions of the kidneys, as well as the creation of hormones such as estrogen and testosterone. Adrenal glands are known to be the small layered gland that is found on the top of your organ which is the kidney. It also includes the production of stress hormones […]
Over the past two decades, U.S. parents and teachers have reported epidemic levels of children with trouble focusing, impulsive behavior and so much energy that they are bouncing off walls. Educators, policymakers and scientists have referred to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, as a national crisis and have spent billions of dollars looking into its cause. They’ve looked at genetics, brain development, exposure to lead, the push for early […]