If your spouse notices that you stop breathing for more than 10 seconds more than 10 times an hour during sleep, you may have sleep apnea. Many overweight people suffer from sleep apnea and have difficulty staying awake during the day because stopping breathing interferes with deep sleep, causing them to wake up tired each [...]
There is a definite relationship between our core body temperature and our feelings of lethargy or energy. When the body is warm, we feel wide awake. When the body is cool, feeling of tiredness and sleepiness prevail.
Not everybody realizes that our body temperature works and ticks like an internal clock controlling our sleeping cycles. Body [...]
I’ve suffered from sleep problems for about three years now. For awhile it was pretty serious, but I seem to have it mostly under control now. I’m beginning to take sleep for granted again, but every now and then I think back upon how horrible it was to not be able to sleep.
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Do you have small kids, an exhausting job, feel tired? This is something everyone should do! Powernap is a short but most effective nap. You can take a Powernap at work or at home or even in your car. ( Be sure you are parked!). Usually you get sluggish after a long nap, but Powernap [...]
It may come as a surprise but more than 60 million suffer from heartburn in the US alone. And the list is growing by the day. Heartburn is a problem that causes severe pain in the stomach and chest.
Any cure for heartburn must begin at home. The cure should be a combination of changes in [...]
Heartburn is a problem that is cause by the leakage of acid from the stomach back into the esophagus. This in turn causes heartburn. The esophagus or gullet is not capable of handling acid. Therefore it leads to severe belching, vomiting sensation and feeling of acidity in the throat. The condition also leads to severe [...]
1. Avoid Naps ? If you can?t sleep at night, you?re grateful for any chance to get some shut eye. But if your really having trouble falling asleep at night then you should fight the urge to take a nap. You?ll be more tired at night when it?s time to go to sleep.
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Do you sleep well? If not, do you know why?
Keeping a sleep diary will allow you to find patterns in your sleep habits. For instance you may find, for instance, that you sleep better after a meal that is high in carbohydrates as opposed to one that is high in protein.
Or you may find that [...]
I have unfortunately been on both sides of this article. I have spent time visiting friends and family when they have been sick, but I have more often been the patient everyone is visiting. Many of the visits went very well, but unfortunately others didn?t go so well for them or me. Hopefully my mistakes [...]
Alzheimer’s disease can disrupt a patient so much that they end up reversing their sleeping pattern completely and wanting to sleep all day and be awake and active all night.
Although this may not be a problem for the patient their family and care givers may rapidly become drained and exhausted.
People often assume that as we [...]
