Wellness Wednesday: Manage healthy sleep during Ramadan
Check out these useful tips for surviving the sleep-wake "swings" that can result from practicing Ramadan traditions. [...]
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Wellness Wednesday: Day care workers arrested in Chicago for feeding toddlers melatonin gummy bears at naptime
If you're a parent and you give your children melatonin, that is something you should do with the guidance of a pediatrician and in the privacy of your own home. For a daycare provider to dispense melatonin gummy bears as a "naptime snack" is unethical and illegal. We don't know enough about how melatonin affects children's sleep-wake cycles and overall brain development to be so cavalier about this practice. [...]
Sleep News Weekly || Oct 13, 2017: REM researcher dies, alcohol and sleep, is sleeping nude best?, and more
'Tis the season to adjust your sleep habits; new neurostimulation implant helps people with central apnea sleep better; strange sleep "pets" in Belsomra ads swapped for more human narrative; and more about how America (and the world) sleeps. [...]
Sleep Fundamentals || J is for Jet Lag
Only pilots, flight attendants, and regular cross-continental flyers (military, businesspeople) can claim jet lag as a sleep disorder. Otherwise, it is experienced as a temporary and self-limiting rhythmic disruption. [...]
Sleep Fundamentals || E is for Entrainment
Sleep Fundamentals: What is Entrainment? [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Easy peasy circadian reset
A night out under the stars can really help with sleep problems. [...]
NEW! Monday Morning Coffee for June 12, 2017
We've vetted this morning's sleep news so you don't have to. Happy Monday! [...]
Poor sleep: a common denominator for both high blood pressure and stroke
Sleep problems continue to be a common denominator shared by more problematic chronic disease conditions, such as hypertension (high blood pressure) and stroke. Want to prevent the latter? Start with preventing or treating your sleep problems. [...]
News drip: More news reports on circadian rhythms
SHC has captured some great links since it reported on the circadian rhythms last month.
[...]Sleep can benefit from mindfulness
Mindfulness is more a 24-7 mindset than a specific practice; it also embraces all the ideas that make sleep hygiene a legitimate goal for those who struggle with sleep. [...]