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The average human needs between seven and eight, more likely eight, hours of sleep each night. Can you make up the difference in case you are in a deficit? It is very tempting to want to catch up. You can catch up on a lot of other things in life.
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For large parts of our social history we didn’t sleep in one long stretch. We slept in a manner called biphasic sleep. In fact, in the Viking era, biphasic sleep was the norm. People would go to bed after sunset, wake up after four hours, and spend an hour
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Imagine you are having dinner with close family. You are enjoying the company, food and conversation. You think nothing of the fact that all of you are sitting in one large room together. But now imagine if all of them said they were tired and wanted to sleep over. They
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Sleep latency is the time it takes for you to fall asleep once your head hits the pillow. How long do you take? Ideally, it should take you between 10 to 20 minutes. Too short, and you’re likely sleep-deprived. Too long, and your body or mind is resisting sleep.
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Have you slept better because you exercised during the day? If you have wondered what is the connection between sleep and exercise, let us find out. Many people believe that exercising causes fatigue. The fatigue then makes the body want to catch up. You sleep better as a result. But
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Your body has an internal clock. This clock, also known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus, regulates your circadian rhythm. It controls hormone release, metabolism, and sleep. One key signal is melatonin. The brain produces melatonin in response to darkness. It signals that night has begun. But melatonin does not rise instantly.
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A sleep study is a comprehensive examination of how your mind and body react when you are asleep. When should you get a sleep study done? First, let us understand what they study. I was surprised to learn how comprehensive these studies are. They look at the electrical signals in
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Are you in sleep debt? You may or may not have heard of the concept, but chances are most of us experience it. Sleep debt is the backlog of sleep over days or weeks. The difference between the hours you should have been asleep and your current reality. I know
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Sleep, hopefully, comes every night. When it does, have you wondered what happens to your body when you are sleeping? In fact, your brain is working furiously, as is the rest of your body. As astonishing as it may sound, studies have confirmed this to be true. Let us find
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Sleep. Is there an ideal pattern, amount, or time of day? Should you be embarrassed about sleeping too much or too little? To find out, let us look at how we have slept through the ages. Generally speaking, we have slept at night and then again during the day. Night
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Sleep is the time when our body rests and repairs. For many of us, getting a good night's sleep can be hard. You might describe yourself as a light sleeper. Someone who wakes up at the drop of a hat, proverbially speaking. One possible reason for being a