Understanding the Importance of Sleep for Optimal Brain Function
While physical fitness gets a lot of attention regarding human health, we overlook brain health’s importance for overall well-being. A good nighttime snooze is more than a moment of inactivity. While it’s important for your body, your brain function also depends on optimal rest and recovery. Quality sleep is central to your brain’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes and general health. To help you understand the importance of sleep for the...
Read More
Sleep Apnea Overview: What It Is and How to Know If You Have It
If you often wake up tired despite a whole night’s sleep, snore loudly, or wake up gasping for air, you might be dealing with a sleep disorder. This sleep apnea overview will help you understand the condition, its causes, and how to identify it. Sleep apnea is a common yet overlooked disorder affecting breathing during sleep. It can lead to poor rest and potential health risks. Many people live with sleep...
Read More
The Impact of Light and Vitamin D on Sleep: What You Should Know
You probably remember how our parents told us to turn out the lights at night before going to bed. Nightly darkness meant it was time to get some rest and go to sleep. Throughout evolution, our internal clock has become used to the regular bright and dark stages of day and night to control our sleep cycle. Have you ever noticed that you feel gloomy when you stay indoors all...
Read More
The Missing Link to Reaching Your Weight Loss Goals
Bears get huge before their winter hibernation then wake up many pounds lighter in the spring. Although you may not be able to sleep away the pounds like a bear, there is a direct correlation between getting enough quality sleep and weight loss. Photo by Mark Basarab on Unsplash “When you carry around extra pounds, you can have trouble staying active, low energy, and difficulty sleeping,” – Dr. Walter Willett, professor of...
Read More
12 Tips On How To Get More Restorative Sleep Tonight
Why does sleep matter so much? by Nira ter Veld of Good Life Healing House Sleep is a fundamental biological process that is necessary for our overall health and well-being. Understanding how to get more restorative sleep is key to supporting both physical and mental health. Humans, birds, mammals, and every studied animal species share the need for sleep, though the total sleep time varies widely among species. While we may appear...
Read More