Everyday, your body is exposed to pollutants around you. At night, when you rest, your body repairs itself of the damage caused by pollutants during the day. Studies show that an average adult needs about 8 hours of sleep a day for the body to get sufficient rest and repair. However, most of us find it difficult to obtain the necessary hours of sleep. Worse, some of us resort to making do with as little as 4 to 5 hours of sleep daily, not knowing what a detrimental position we are...

What if you knew which foods had an immense effect on how well you sleep during the night? Would you want to know which foods improved your sleep and which foods placed a strain on your rest? If you are like millions of other people, the knowledge of these foods would be extremely beneficial to you. If you knew which foods kept you awake at night than you would know which foods to stay away from. In this article I will provide you with some of the foods which are responsible for...

There are remedies available so you can find relief from night Bruxism by using a grinding mouth teeth guard.  How do you know that you have this condition?  Well, do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night realizing that your jaw is tight, your teeth are clenched, and the muscles on the side of your face ache?  If so, you may have a condition that is known as sleep Bruxism.  Scientifically defined, this is known and defined medical condition in which...

Technically, nobody is spared from worries and pressures in any manner especially adults. Therefore, at some time of your life you had experienced anxiety insomnia. This is also referred to as the occasional nights that you cannot go to sleep, the times when you toss and turn on your bed or the times when you really want to sleep but your mind continues to worry about something which renders you unable to sleep.

Triggers of Anxiety Insomnia

- a coming big event like...

The best course of treatment for sleep apnea as far as doctors are concerned is called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). C P A P blows air into the sleeper's airway through a mask fitted over the nose and mouth, forcing the air way to stay open and eliminating both snoring and apnea episodes. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the effective noninvasive medical treatment to eliminate snoring and prevent sleep apnea. The CPAP consists of a portable machine that...

Warren has had problems falling asleep most of his life. It wasn't that big of a deal to him most of the time. In college, he scheduled most of his classes to start in the afternoon. His first full-time job out of school was managing a restaurant for the 4pm to midnight shift, so he didn't have to rise early for that, either. But Warren's new position as an executive chef was a 9-5 job, and he has already started off on the wrong foot by arriving late to work several times in the first...

Sleep Deprivation Syndrome is acutely stressful and it can be deadly. It can disorientate; it can muddle your brain and cause you to become emotionally unstable; it can even kill you.

And if you’re a chronic snorer, unfortunately you most likely DO suffer from this syndrome because your snoring prevents you from experiencing proper REM sleep.

Well, don’t despair! If you can spare just 10 minutes each day, you can be well on the way to putting a...

This is a common trend nowadays. People live stressful lives and at one stage or the other it ends up affecting them mentally. Though they are busy during the daytime and their brain does not find time to convey a sinister message at night the problems start surfacing. They end up tossing and turning in bed with sleep eluding them for hours on end. This leads in getting up late and reaching office late. If one is late on a particular day, the boss will not mind, but if a person reaches...

Every one of us has a mysterious double life.

For about two thirds of the time we are conscious beings, thinking about the world within and without, and negotiating our ways through the obstacles of life. For the other one third of the time we are nearly lifeless lumps of flesh, unconscious to everything but our own fantasies, as we lie flat in bed asleep. We all know that sleep is important for health. But for an activity that consumes about 8 hours of everyday of life,...

This is fundamentally a hereditary disease, passed on from parents to their offspring and so far is one of the most uncommon among the various types of sleeping disorders. It has been diagnosed only in 28 families in the world till now which possess the dominant gene for it, where the chances of it occurring among the offspring of the parent is of 50% and the chances of it being cured are nil. The disease is initially prevalent among people between the age group of 30 to 60 and runs...