There’s no doubt about it, sleep deprivation is an expensive behavior. You may think that you are cutting corners when you decide to skip sleep, but the truth is you are setting yourself up for higher expenses as well as risking your health. Simply put, if you get the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep you […]
Despite many past experiments that tried to prove that chronic sleep loss was safe, sleep deprivation can pose serious risks to your life. American record holder Randy Gardner, intentionally went without sleep for 264.5 hours, or 11 days and 24 minutes, in which he suffered hallucinations, moodiness, paranoia, and many other psychological effects. Though you […]
When was the last time you had a weird dream? The meaning of dreams is often associated with our mental health and how we feel about events in our lives. However, recent research has linked dreaming to our physical and mental health as well. You have a fever: In our fast paced society, it is […]
When you wake up in the morning do you think about how your night’s rest is going to affect your work day? Research has more than reiterated that sleep is an important tool for our productivity, creativity and innovation. However, according to the CDC, nearly a third of Americans are sleep deprived and sleeping less […]
As we age, it is more common for us to experience muscle, bone, and nerve pain. Fibromyalgia, a condition that cause widespread pain affecting multiple body parts, is also more common among people over the age of 50. A new study shows that non-restorative sleep, sleeping the proper amount of hours yet still feeling tired […]
It is no secret that teens simply love their technology and seem to love late nights, but it does have a possible dark side. A new study has identified a profile of lifestyle factors that may be raising psychiatric risks for teens. According to researchers at the Karolinska Institutet, teens that have all 3 of […]
According to two new studies, the amount of sleep you get every night may have a significant effect on your risk for depression. Sleeping too little, and too much, was linked to depression in adults, while sleeping too little was linked to depression in adolescents. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, University of […]
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