While many times discussions focused on compliance seem to paint a sometimes bleak outlook for many CPAP users, there are some new developments in the industry which have the potential to help many CPAP users achieve a dramatically higher compliance rate. In addition to a higher compliance rate, which is sometimes vague, the health and success that continued CPAP therapy affords the user is probably the biggest reason to stick with it.

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Sleep and HGH Levels- Sleep More to Increase HGH Production

People who are sleep deprived often look tired and older than their years. The reason behind this is that lack of sleep of sleep deprivation affects HGH production and lower levels of HGH affects your body's capacity to repair cell damage that occurs on a normal day to day basis.

The net result is that your body begins aging.

But this is not all!

This process does not end with a decline in your HGH...

Do you think you are getting enough sleep at night to stay healthy?

By Dennis Fisher.

People with sleeping problems who only sleep a few hours each night often worry they are not getting enough sleep to keep healthy.  This is understandable because so much has been written about the dangers of sleep deprivation and how it can affect your health.

People are under the impression that it is necessary  to have at least six to eight hours sleep every night...

Narcolepsy is a kind of sleeping disorder which is the root cause of daytime sleepiness experienced by most of its sufferers. The person experiencing this trouble complains of excessive tiredness or sleepiness and that too at in-appropriate times. This is one of the most critical sleeping disorders faced by people lately.

Symptoms of Narcolepsy: The various symptoms of the narcoleptic sleeping disorder include sleep paralysis, loss of muscle strength, un-controlled daytime...

The newborn baby spends 75 percent of his time asleep. This is because a baby’s physiological sleep need is vastly different from that of an adult. Babies are also unique in that they spend 50 percent of their daily sleep in REM sleep. Just after birth, babies only seem to have two stages of sleep: REM sleep and non-REM sleep.

Unlike adults, babies often move during REM sleep and remain still during non-REM sleep. For this reason, REM sleep at this stage of life is sometimes...

Pillows are cushion like support items that are used to keep the body in good shape and posture as we relax, either lying or sitting down. They come in many types, shapes and designs. Their categorization is also based on the function they are meant to perform. For example, there are orthopedic pillows, which ensure that the body, especially the spine, remains in good posture, whatever position one has adopted. There are also decorative pillows and bed pillows.

Under these...

Snoring

An unpleasant noise produced due to the vibrations is termed as snoring. Vibrations are caused due to the soft tissues and the weak throat muscles. Snoring is caused due to many factors like excess fats, drinking etc. However the are also various ways and means which helps to stop snoring.

Roommate snoring

Roommate snoring is a very irritating and of a great head ace to sleep. The snorer not only sleeps uncomfortably but he / she also makes the...

Many of us just enjoy the comfort derived from using a pillow to support the body when sleeping or sitting, but rarely take the time to appreciate the many different types of pillows there are. Having a little knowledge on this issue goes a long way in helping us chose the right pillow for the right occasion. Knowing the pillows by name also helps us when shopping because, we can ask for them by their names.

There are decorative pillows that are meant to purposely improve the...

For over 3,000 years, the Chinese have developed the art of promoting an inner energy flow that was considered the basis of healing. Physical disease was thought to have an origin of stagnated energy. Once this "blockage" of energy was dispersed and a greater flow of energy stimulated, symptoms of illness would normalize. These energy flows run throughout the body on pathways called "meridians," mapped out from traditional Chinese medical texts and named after...

Many of us do not recognize that we have a snoring problem until we are married. It is during this time that our partner tells us and is frusterated at us because we held them from sleeping during the night. Snoring is normally tough on the individual's spouse.

There are loads of products on the market that say they cantake care of. But do these products genuinely work? Many of us are not prepared to waste our hard earned money on products that may not help us. The best way to...