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Exclusively Treating Sleep Apnea, Snoring, and CPAP Intolerance www.SnoreExperts.com | | | What poor sleep can do to your health – and how to get a better night’s rest Sleep – both its quantity and its quality – is one of the most frequently discussed health topics. How often have you told a friend or relative, “I’m exhausted, I was up half the night”? The pandemic seems to have only made things worse, even for those who were previously “good” sleepers. Remote work gave many people more hours in the day for personal use, but at the same time turned the workday into a 24/7 endeavour, with emails, texts and Zoom calls occurring at odd and often unpredictable times. Working parents who lacked childcare options or had to help young children with online schoolwork during the day may have resorted to late night or early morning hours to get their own work done with minimal interruptions. They essentially became shift workers with erratic sleep schedules. Others lost sleep pondering whether their jobs were worth the stress and how they might reshape their working lives. Read more. | | | | | Funny Sleep Puns & Jokes Some people have nightmares while some have just plain bizarre dreams. Whatever kind of dreamer you are, if you need funny sleep puns and jokes, you’ll never be caught napping again! That’s because you couldn’t dream of better sleep puns than these. So enjoy them. | | | | The hypothalamic link between arousal and sleep homeostasis in mice Our current understanding of how sleep is regulated is based upon the model of sleep homeostasis, which defines a variable called Process S as a measure of sleep need, and a so-called “flip-flop” model of state switching, which builds on a notion of a mutually antagonistic relationship between subcortical sleep-promoting and wake-promoting circuits. The neurobiological substrates of the interaction between the sleep switch and Process S are unknown. Our study identifies a previously unrecognized role of hypothalamic circuitry in tuning within-state brain activity or levels of arousal, which in turn determine the homeostatic drive for sleep. Read more. | | | | How to fall asleep when even Ambien doesn’t help: An insomniac’s tips Diane Macedo’s insomnia went from annoying to a full-fledged emergency when her usually trusty Ambien did nothing to help her get to sleep. “One day, the magic stopped,” the ABC News anchor and correspondent writes in her new book, “The Sleep Fix” (HarperCollins). “I took my usual half an Ambien, got in bed, and… nothing. I couldn’t fall asleep.” And so the mother of two young children started researching alternatives. “I knew [the drug] was not a viable long-term solution for me, and I was determined to find a better one,” she writes. Read more. | | | | Can certain teas actually promote better sleep? Getting enough zzz's isn’t just something most of us love to do, it’s actually essential to our health. Unfortunately, according to the National Sleep Foundation, 35% of all adults in the U.S. report sleeping for less than the recommended seven hours per night, on average. Evenings can play a huge role in the quality of sleep you get. Your brain produces more melatonin, the sleep hormone, at night as it prepares itself to go to sleep. As it gets dark outside your brain knows to make more of this hormone. So, dimming lights and turning off electronics can help. Read more. | | | | |
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Q: I work at night, do you have any tips? (Kyle D.) Kyle, nightshift workers may have no difficulties working at nighttime and sleeping during the day. However, many individuals encounter difficulty working nightshifts because they are doing something that the body is not comfortable doing. Some suggestions to improve your body's ability to adjust to working at night include working in a brightly lit environment, wearing dark sunglasses on the way home from work, and sleeping in a cool dark environment during the day. Additionally, some individuals may benefit from sleeping for four hours immediately after getting home from work in the morning followed by another four hour sleep period in the afternoon. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Should I take melatonin? (Trish L.) Trish, melatonin is like the start gun for recruiting sleep chemicals to go to sleep but is not involved with sleep itself. Melatonin is helpful when changing time zones. For young, healthy patients, studies show that melatonin does not reliably work. The placebo effect is one of the most common effects in pharmacology. If you feel like melatonin is working for you, it is low risk so feel free to keep taking it. | | All in One Location - SleepTesting, CPAP/APAP, Dental Mouthpieces, Surgery, Laser Therapy, & More
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