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How to Improve Your Sleep
Hopefully by now you realize Why Sleep Matters. While there are many reasons that sleep can be disrupted, fortunately, a few simple shifts can often make a big difference. While all of these suggestions are potentially useful, the ones that work for you will depend on your personal situation. The sleep aid industry is burgeoning, and while there is a time and place for any prescription, you ultimately want to avoid relying on sleep aids, and sedatives. Not only can they become habit forming, further worsening your sleep problems due to a reliance on them, the sedation they provide does not allow for the same restoration as actual sleep. I…
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Why Sleep Matters
Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory and makes you more creative. It makes you look more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you from cancer and dementia. It wards off colds and the flu. It lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, not to mention diabetes. You’ll even feel happier, less depressed, and less anxious. –Matt Walker, Why We Sleep Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? But if even half of these claims were attached to a celebrity product on TikTok, it would be a bestseller. The honest truth is that all…
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How Our Health Falls Back When We Spring Forward
As we approach Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 12, 2023 many of us easily recognize the annoyance of not only resetting all our clocks, but also of losing an hour of sleep as we spring ahead. We trade this lost hour of sleep for an extra hour of daylight in the evening, but at what cost? The National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 Sleep in America Poll revealed that 70% of Americans don’t think their sleep, routines or mood are disrupted by changing the clocks. In the same poll, while only 1 in 4 Americans want to keep the biannual clock change, greater than 50% felt the US should stay in…
