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Reset a Broken Internal Sleep Clock & Fix Sleep Schedule
A normal sleep routine can be disrupted by shift work, traveling, or even just a busier-than-normal schedule. While you can try napping to “catch up” on sleep,has found that napping…
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Uncommon Ways to Regulate Your Body Temperature As You Sleep
For most of us, a great night’s sleep usually starts with hopping into a dreamily plush bed with plenty of soft, fluffy pillows and piles of warm, cozy blankets.
The Negative Impact of Hitting the Snooze Button
It’s 7:30 AM and your alarm is blaring. You know you should probably get up and get started with your day, but you’re still tired and your bed is crazy…
How Sound Impacts Your Sleep Cycle
Whether you are sensitive to bumps in the night or sleep like a rock, sound has the potential to affect your rest and your health.
By Rosie Osmun
Preventing Sleepwalking: Scientific Findings to Help Stop a Chronic Sleepwalker
In the movies, sleepwalking might be something that’s reserved mostly for zombies. But in real life, it affects kids and adults of all ages—and it’s more common than you think.
Learn How to Sleep All Night Long Naturally, Without Waking Up
You might think having difficulty sleeping is just a part of getting older. With a never-ending to-do list, increased stress, and the advent of new aches and pains that seemingly…
Reducing Back Pain While Sleeping: Causes & the Right Sleep Positions for Treatment
See how sleep positions and mattress choices can influence and improve nighttime back pain, and why managing pain is important for healthy rest. If you experience frequent back pain, you…
By Rosie Osmun
How Daytime Naps Can Help You Work Smarter
Not long ago, taking a nap at work probably would’ve gotten you fired.
Diabetes and Sleep: How High Blood Sugar Steals Sleep Time
It’s probably far from obvious, but your diabetes could be the reason that you’re having trouble sleeping. Type 2 diabetes affects nearly 30 million Americans—and the numbers are growing. Though…
How to Sleep Better When You’re Sick
By now, you’ve probably heard (or worse, have had direct experience with) that this flu season is shaping up to be Nearly every state is reporting widespread flu activity, and…
Sleeping With The Seasons: See How Weather Influences Your Sleep
Have you ever noticed that different times of year or certain weather patterns influence how you feel or how well you sleep? Though many aspects of achieving good sleep are…
By Rosie Osmun
Should You Let Your Pet Sleep in Your Bed? Why You Could Be Sleeping Worse & How to Deal
When you love your pet like family, forcing them to sleep all alone can feel a little cruel. But when you open up your comfortable mattress to your dog or…
How Caffeine Works, and What it Means for Sleep
For the busy and overworked among us (basically, everyone) caffeine might be the ultimate double-edged sword.