America is increasingly sleepless. It’s no surprise. Insane politics and politicians cause many sleepless nights. But insomnia can be caused by sleep apnea and shift work; hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism; depression and anxiety; alcohol and marijuana; chronic lung disease and congestive heart failure. Just as there hundreds of causes of insomnia, most people who suffer sleeplessness do […]
How Sleep Resets the Brain
So just what is the brain doing during sleep? We know sleep is necessary to cognition, glucose control, weight, memory, even life asleep. But what’s really going on in there? The layers of information that control and constantly renew the human body are strikingly complex. One of the most useful theories to explicate how was […]
Bedtime and Weight
Growing Up Thinner Go to bed early. Wake up ten years later slimmer than your peers. Is weight control really this simple? Perhaps. The tantalizing question remains – does more closely fitting your biological clocks and getting more sleep equal less obesity? Recently, researchers looked over data from a study that gathered evidence from 1991 […]
The Sweet Part of Sleep
How much sleep do you need? There are over seven billion propers answers to that question. Some people function beautifully on three. Quite a few, particularly ill folk, need eight or nine hours or more. To rebuild the body takes time. It takes different amount of sleeping rest for different people. But when the American […]
When Sleep Is Not Enough
When You Can’t Sleep Like depression, insomnia used to be treated as a symptom of “something else.” Not anymore. At this year’s national sleep meetings in Denver, it became clearer how big a national and international problem insomnia is – as well as how to fix it. As insomnia researcher Charles Morin pointed out, the […]