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Creating a Healthy Sleep Routine
Sleep Hygiene is as important as the other kind, and your level of functioning while awake depends on the routines you establish to help you get a decent night's sleep.
Creating a Sleep Routine
More tips to achieve a more restfull sleep
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
The answer is different for everyone, and depends on factors such as age, how much sleep the person has had recently, overall health and other factors.
Quieting Snoring: Help for the Sleeping Household
The "sawing wood" sound that is snoring comes from vibrations in the tissues of the throat, especially the soft palate and the uvula, which flap back and forth as we breathe during sleep. Snoring can be caused or made worse by any condition or activity that narrows the nasal and throat passages.
Sleep - How Important Is It?
The short answer? Very Important!! Study after study has produced alarming results; shortened life spans, dementia, immune system effects.
Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Circadian rhythms are regular changes in mental and physical characteristics that occur in the course of a day.
Sleep and Disease
How many reasons do you need to get a good sleep? Only one of these should convince most people.
Sleep Terms & Abbreviation Glossary
A long list to help you with your in-depth sleep research.
The Epworth Sleepiness Scale
A simple, self-administered questionnaire which is widely used by sleep professionals in quantifying the level of daytime sleepiness.
Treating Your Sleep Problems: Over The Counter vs Prescription Medication
Sleeping medications must be taken as prescribed and with certain precautions. Recently approved prescription medications have been found to be far less likely to be abused than the usual medications.
What Happens During Sleep?
OK, you might need the glossary we provide to get through this one, but if you don't know already, you'll be amazed of the activity that goes on in our heads while we are supposedly "resting". |
