One thing is very clear. If you are a baby, you should be sleeping on your back. Infants who sleep on their back, as opposed to their stomachs, have a reduced risk of sudden infant death syndrome ...
聽A friend forwarded me an interesting facebook post that claimed that the best time to drink water was just before going to bed. Upon careful reflection, it seems to me that this would be the worst...
Melatonin is indeed a hormone that is produced by the pineal gland in the brain, mostly during the night with its secretion being impaired by exposure to bright light. It has appropriately been...
We鈥檝e all heard it: chamomile tea is what you drink if you have difficulty falling asleep. This bit of folkloric wisdom has been repeated so many times, it must be true, right?
If you ever twitch while falling asleep, you鈥檙e not alone. In fact 70% of the population experience this phenomenon, called a hypnic or hypnagogic jerk.聽
Am I the only one who tries to 鈥榮wallow my head鈥 as my Nana used to say聽while exercising? For a while, I thought so! But a Google search聽told me I'm not聽alone. Many people suffer from constant...
We have long been told to cut back on salt to reduce blood pressure. That鈥檚 old hat. (But one worth wearing).聽 Now we learn that a low salt diet can also help us sleep better! In a roundabout way....