Forever on the lookout for ways to improve your sleep, I stumbled across the idea that if you have 6 days of 28 hours as opposed to 7 days of 24 hours, you may have really great sleep. This could be a tip if you’re a night worker or huge party animal. Though I don’t…
Sleep is something the majority of people take for granted, that is of course until the day they find themselves with a bad bout of insomnia. Then it can become an ongoing daily battle, with obsession sometimes setting in, in turn leading to a whole new set of problems such as depression, breakdown in relationships,…
Just as the old adage say, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to never go to bed angry. A sure fire way for me to have a bout of insomnia is to fight before bed. Fighting hypes up the fight or flight adrenal glands and surges of adrenalin and…
There are different types of insomnia which present itself as difficulty maintaining sleep, difficulty initiating sleep, early waking, non restorative sleep or worse still a combination of each. I will address here difficulty falling asleep. Causes of this include: psychiatric influences such as anxiety or tension whereby insomnia could be the symptom of recent worry…
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It comes as no surprise that increase in obesity over recent decades has grown hand in hand with chronic sleep problems. In fact scientific evidence shows a strong link between lack of sleep and weight increase. Shorter sleep has also been found to be linked to an increased body mass index (BMI). So how do…
Eating sugar rich foods boosts blood sugar, and will give you a boost of energy. This is something to keep in mind if you are tempted to snack before bedtime because when your brain realises that your body is full of sugar, your pancreas will release large amounts of insulin to transfer the sugar from…
It took me years to realise that I am allergic to garlic. Not allergic in the traditional sense, more that every time I have garlic I’m stimulated as though I have had twenty cups of coffee. Whenever I used to eat out I’d return home and be unable to get to sleep. One night lying…
