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The chronotype quiz can help you identify your body’s natural sleep-wake preferences. But there are some things to remember when learning about your chronotype.
As you go through significant life changes, your sleep will also change. Hormones, including melatonin, will shift your sleep-wake schedule, but there are sleep strategies to help you sleep through the night.
If you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep at night, start by working on your sleep hygiene and improving your routine.
Over-the-counter, prescription, and natural sleep aids may alleviate sleep problems, but it’s important to learn about their respective risks and benefits.
Healthy sleep involves both sleep quantity and sleep quality. While the amount of sleep you need depends on your age and health, you can play a key role in your own sleep quality.
Understanding the sleep stages and how the sleep cycle works can help you improve your sleep health.
Research shows our emotions before bed can result in positive or negative dreams. If pervasive thoughts are affecting your dreams, consider these tips.
Our sleep patterns can change for a number of reasons, including aging, stress, and diet. If your sleep needs aren’t being met, consider new strategies to try.
Regularly getting healthy, continuous sleep allows your body to complete full sleep cycles and go through all of the restorative processes of sleep.
Sleep quality is just as important as sleep quantity. Simple improvements before bed can reduce stress and drastically change how you feel the next day.
Sleep and mental health is a complex and bidirectional relationship. However, understanding both can help you improve sleep and your overall well-being.
Acontinuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine can be a highly effective form of treatment for sleep apnea. However, there are several other considerations that can impact your treatment.
Our sleep can easily be affected by temperature – whether its your sleep environment heating up or changes happening within the body. Prioritizing a comfortable sleep temperature will drastically improve your sleep quality.
A natural sleep aid you may not know about – tart cherries. A glass of tart cherry juice in the evening may provide you the sleep benefits you’re looking for.
When you struggle to fall asleep, it’s a good idea to try several different strategies to reset your thoughts and prepare the body for sleep once more.
Sleep trackers are great tools that can give you insight into your sleep patterns. Although accuracy is still a challenge for many trackers, they offer a huge benefit for people looking to understand more about their sleep and start taking steps to improve it.
