If you are an insomniac Remember that often your partner needs as much support as you do. Show your appreciation when you can. Don’t let insomnia rule both of your lives. That’s not fair to either of you. Try and be less obsessive, and more chilled out. Take a long-term view: it will get better [...]
Insomnia is a single person’s disorder. How often we wish we were on our own and could organize our lives as selfishly as we need to give us the space to do all the things to help ourselves get better. Advice about when you eat, what you eat, how you relax, what you do and [...]
Insomniacs come in all shapes and sizes and from all walks of life. Statistically the only two groups who are more prone to insomnia are middle-aged women and the elderly. On the whole, too, we’re pretty nice, normal bunches who happens to have got ourselves into a sleepless mess and who have to cope with [...]
Millions of us don’t sleep well, but have no idea whether we have insomnia or not, and therefore whether we should make an effort to resolve it, or struggle on hoping for a better night’s sleep tonight again. What is insomnia? Insomnia is not being able to sleep normally, by which I mean not being [...]
Serotonin and melatonin are words that you may have heard bandied about. Both are natural hormones produced in the brain, and are the two vital chemicals associated with sleep. They are intimately linked – serotonin is the precursor of melatonin. Without enough of either, we don’t sleep. It’s as simple as that. Serotonin Serotonin is [...]
Prenatal care consists of three interrelated, but equally important, focus points: care for your self, care and support from friends and family members, and regular visits to a midwife or physician. Below are Sleep Smart Strategies that you should include in your self care throughout your pregnancy, either on your own or with the help [...]
Like conventional drugs, herbs cause straightforward biochemical reactions in your body. In fact, many of today’s drugs are based on substances found in herbs. But unlike most conventional drugs, herbalism uses all of the plant like root, stem or leaf in a variety of ways from pills and teas to tinctures, which are concentrating made [...]
Caffeine Why stimulants can play havoc with your sleep cycle? Your morning coffee works for a reason. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system brain and spinal chord, increasing your metabolic rate, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing levels. It also blocks the effects of adenosine, a natural sedative found in the brain which builds up [...]
You’re tired during the day, you’re irritable, anxious, have difficulty concentrating and are bout as alert as a fridge freezer. If you don’t deal with your sleep problem, your health will spiral downwards and your once cheery personality will be replaced by a glum, short-tempered one. Your probably don’t need a scientist to tell you [...]
Observably, adolescent and adult women experience cyclical changes in reproductive hormone levels. Interestingly, research suggests that permenopausal women’s endocrine systems may actually buffer them against stress, activate their immune systems, and improve their cardiovascular health. Because of changing women’s hormone levels, both monthly and throughout the life span, women have often been excluded from research [...]
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