Tag: Sleep

You must have felt it at some point in your life. Maybe it was that impossible deadline or the fact that you haven't had...

While mental illnesses like depression and anxiety are well known and understood fairly well, other illnesses like schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder don't receive the...

Putting your baby to sleep feels like a accomplishing a milestone. Suddenly, you remember having a number of errands to run and as soon...

If you find yourself constantly roused at odd times of night, it's possible you are feeling too hot or too cold. Adjust the room temperature. Avoid alcohol and caffeine close to bedtime, and quit smoking. Other underlying health issues like sleep apnea, nocturia, restless legs syndrome, GERD, or depression or anxiety are possible causes of frequent nighttime waking.

Lavender, jasmine, rosemary, snake plant, spider plant, Gardenia, and English Ivy are a few bedroom plants that help you sleep better. Research suggests that these plants can lower your blood pressure and heart rate and soothe your senses, lulling you into a peaceful slumber. While rosemary, jasmine, and lavender promote sleep by reducing stress and lifting mood, even in babies, snake and spider plants purify the air.

Excessive tiredness isn't always a side effect of a busy life. While you can reverse lifestyle factors like irregular sleep hours, heavy drinking, or dehydration, some causes are more serious. These include sleep-disrupting problems like sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome, psychological ones like depression and anxiety, and physiological causes like anemia, hypothyroidism, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, and brain tumor.

The American Cancer Society debunks the claim that wearing a bra while you sleep might increase your risk of breast cancer. Neither can a bra constrict your chest and cut off circulation – unless it's really tight and ill-fitting. Wearing a bra may actually be beneficial after you've had breast surgery or a biopsy, or if you experience any kind of breast pain. Otherwise, it boils down to a question of comfort and choice and not health!

Starting your day off gulping down a glass of milk might seem like a quick and nutritious start to your day, but milk being heavy in digestion can leave you prone to stomach aches and heartburn as well. In accordance with ayurveda, milk may be better saved as an end of day drink to help you wind down and crank up the sleep inducing hormones in your body.

If you think you are safe from pollution and toxins while staying indoors, you better think again. Though it is not obvious, you are...

Experts have proved that your sleep position can reveal a lot about your relationship. When you share a bed, your sleep position can be right from spooning to the freedom lover, which will say a lot about what's going on in your relationship. Each individual personality and habit will influence sleeping styles. Sleeping is an intimate act that is typically only shared with your significant other. Try to use it as a meaningful learning moment.

When you shower is a personal matter that should remain so. Unwind after a long day with a hot shower or jumpstart your day with a cold one. It's your call.

Age is what we make and our feelings about growing old is how we feel on the inside, but not outside. Whether you are scared of aging or welcome it smilingly, there are many ways to keep your body healthy and your spirit feeling young. Here are 9 mistakes you might be making that are the culprits in making you age more quickly.

More often than not, we are told to swallow some pills if there is something wrong in our bodies, but that does not necessarily...

Most of us would turn to conventional sleeping pills, warm milk, soothing music, and the like to sleepily slip into dreamland. But did you...

Though everyone knows what magnesium is, many are unaware of how important a mineral it is to the human body. Involved in over 300...