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7 Quick Facts About Sleep!

Today, we’ve got 7 quick facts about sleep for you! Some of them may be quite surprising! 1. The longest recorded period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes—the record holder reported hallucinations and paranoia, and his speech was drastically slurred. 2. An infant typically causes on average 400-750 hours of sleep […]

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Discovery of Possible Natural Sedative and Sleep Promoter

A team of researchers at Emory University believes they have discovered a naturally created sleep-promoting nutrient present in the spinal fluid that surrounds the brain. Studies conducted on patients diagnosed with hypersomnia, a disorder that causes constant and perpetual tiredness, found that an increase in spinal fluid around the brain serves a natural sedative. The […]

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Alzheimer’s and Sleep; why the Correlation is Important

“More than 5 million Americans are living with the [Alzheimer’s] disease,” according to the Alzheimer’s Association website. A new study has shown that disruption of sleep can be a precursor to other more readily identifiable Alzheimer’s symptoms, such as memory loss, confusion, and a decreased cognitive ability. The study’s participants included 145 people from the […]

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