Sleep Fundamentals || Y is for Why Do We Sleep?
Here are some of the top theories explaining why we spend a third of our lives asleep. [...]
sleep and recovery
Wellness Wednesday: Could better Zzz be a strategy for winning NBA Finals?
Given what we know about sleep as a strategy for recovery from intense athletic performance, it makes sense that teams enlist sleep strategies to improve their game outcomes. [...]
Wellness Wednesday: Harvard studies student athletes with early morning practices
Early morning practices are a challenge for phase delayed collegiate athletes who normally don't get to bed until after midnight. Harvard students want to see how that impacts their sleep health. [...]
Wellness Wednesday: Sleep habits to achieve wellness (webinar)
Mental health, like physical health, can benefit from improvements in sleep habits, routines, and rituals at bedtime. [...]
Sleep News Weekly || Dec 8, 2017: BC diesel spill caused by sleepy sailor, America’s racial sleep gap, how to sleep on a plane, more
Is Rihanna a short sleeper or does she practice poor sleep hygiene?; new baby "sock" can track infant vitals during sleep; Florence Nightingale knew about light and circadian rhythms; and more about how America (and the world) sleeps. [...]
From the American Sleep Apnea Association: “The fallible Tiger Woods”
It seems that many prescription drug users do not understand (or care about) the dangerous side effects of these medications. Nor are they aware how their use can impair driving. This, in spite of directly spoken warnings from healthcare professionals and multiple warnings found on drug labels and recited by dispensing pharmacists. [...]