How Many Hours of Sleep do Adults Need to Live Longer?Sleep is amazing. While you sleep, your body and your brain carry out hundreds of essential tasks that cannot be performed during the wake time.• Sleep is when your brain gets organized, cleansed, and refueled.• Sleep is when your muscles, organs and skin get repaired.• […]
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The Interplay Between Insomnia and the Hormone SystemHormones are chemical messengers that play a crucial role in regulating processes like growth, metabolism, immune function, and stress response. Ideally, the levels of all hormones is just right. As you might have guessed, getting optimal sleep is one of the keys for the proper functioning of the […]
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Types of Insomnia & How to Start Solving ThemWhen you have difficulty in falling or staying asleep, every night, or almost every night, the diagnosis is insomnia. What to do? How to get your sleep back?The first step is to learn how to improve sleep quality by doing calmness-inducing somatic movements. These calming movements will […]
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Caregiver Self-CareHow to Get Proper Sleep Even Amidst Challenging SituationsAs a caregiver, you know from experience how puzzling it is to get enough proper sleep. And to find help, you surely have read every tip there is to improve your sleep — but the most burning question stays unanswered: how to get sleep when your […]
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Sleep as Self-CareGet 8-9 Hours of Sleep to Keep Your Heart HealthyYour heart-function is at great risk if you lack sleep or sleep poorly. Because when your heart is not functioning optimally, every cell in your body suffers – a good reason to prioritize getting the best possible sleep.While you sleep, your body relaxes and […]
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Here a question I answered at Quora.com.If you have anything to ask about sleep, simply leave a message here below.I feel restless at night and cannot fall asleep as easily as when I was younger. What seems to be wrong with me?This question I hear often — it is as if out of sudden you […]
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Here is a question I answered at Quora.com.If you have anything to ask about sleep, simply leave a message here below.I keep waking up too early. I never had at least 7 hours of sleep ever since the lock-down. How can I return my sleep and get at least seven hours of sleep a night?There […]
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Here a questions I answered at Quora.com.How do you get past a sleep paralysis episode?One of the keys to solving what possibly could trigger sleep paralysis, how to prevent it and how to handle it, is in understanding how the visual neurological system works.To start, it might be worth mentioning, that for someone who has […]
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Sleep as Self-CareGet 8-9 Hours Sleep to Avoid Oxidative Stress OverloadEssential to life, oxygen takes part in countless number and variety of biological processes. Without oxygen we cannot live — but at the same time, too much oxygen is harmful, even toxic.Maintaining balance is the aim for the body in managing the oxygen intake, transport and […]
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