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Indulging in soda Tomophafan/Shutterstock Not only is most soda loaded with sugar, which can spike your blood glucose level—a condition that will not promote sleep. In addition, many varieties are also high in caffeine. That’s a double whammy when it comes to sleep disruption. Studies indicate that caffeine actually binds to receptors in the body […]
Six years ago, as I was sitting in my Native American literature class in college, I found myself doing that thing where your head sort of wobbles around on your neck as you try to stay awake. Every few seconds my head would fall forward and then snap back up. My eyelids felt weighted and […]
Is any urban legend more shudder inducing than the one about humans swallowing an average of eight spiders a year in their sleep? The idea of unwittingly ingesting eight-legged interlopers is viscerally horrifying. But is there any truth to this creepy notion? We spoke to experts on both sides of the science here—human and arachnid—in […]
Pregnancy can make it hard to do a lot of everyday things, including getting the sweet, sweet sleep you know you’re going to miss once your baby arrives. Luckily, figuring out how to sleep when pregnant doesn't have to be impossible. There are a few tweaks you can make—both before you get into bed and […]
A Student Died in His Sleep After Eating Leftover Pasta—Here’s How – Health Top Navigation Close Explore Health Profile Menu Follow us Close Share options Close View image A Student Died in His Sleep After Eating Leftover Pasta—Here’s How this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Let’s […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device We know babies benefit from being rocked to sleep – now a study suggests it helps adults sleep better too. Researchers from the University of Geneva built a special bed that rocked gently throughout the night. They tested it on 18 young adults and found they woke up […]
It's 2 a.m. and your newborn is crying. Will you ever get a good night's sleep again? Although life with a newborn is a round-the-clock adventure, don't lose hope. By ages 3 to 4 months, many babies can sleep at least five hours at a time. At some point during your baby's first year, nighttime […]
Getting a good night’s sleep is paramount to your health. So, when you’re lying awake at 1 A.M. for the third night in a row, you might be tempted to get some rest in any way possible—with whatever’s in your medicine cabinet. Most often, that means an antihistamine that either warns of drowsiness on the […]
By Julie Upton, RD Lost: Julie’s get-up-and-goGot up and left the house on October 10, 2008Reward for safe return My get-up-and-go has escaped, and I’m doing all I can to get it back. I’m smart enough to know that I can’t rely on quick fixes like drinks or pills. To solve my own energy crisis, […]
For the best sleep of your life, tell your partner to hightail it to the couch and cuddle up to Fido instead. A recent study by researchers at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, suggests that women tend to sleep better next to dogs than they do next to members of their own species. (Or […]
It’s 5:30 in the morning and I still can’t sleep. I should be either still sleeping or waking up to work, but instead I’m studying the swirling patterns inside of my eyelids. This has gone on for months. As a freelance writer I make my own schedule, so there’s nothing that acts as a functioning […]
Spending the night in the great outdoors under a dreamy, starry sky sounds great—until you actually try to fall asleep for the night. The sounds of critters scurrying through the woods, the hard and possibly rocky ground underneath you, and the endless loop of what-if situations running through your mind can make it seriously difficult […]
For a full five minutes, Tracy Mehan watched in disbelief as her 12-year-old slept through a smoke alarm blaring in the same room as him — not stirring once. Mehan had brought her son to a Columbus, Ohio, sleep lab to take part in an experiment pitting traditional high-pitched smoke alarms against various models that […]
We all have moments where we feel a little sleepy and lethargic or when we would simply rather not. But, for Houston Astros pitcher Josh James, feeling "lazy" turned out to be a sign of a much bigger issue: sleep apnea. "I'd wake up in the morning and didn't feel good. Just lazy," James told […]
Fewer things are more frustrating than an out-of-whack sleep cycle. When you’re tired by day and wired by night, it can get to the point where you’ll try just about anything to get a solid night’s sleep ― including taking Benadryl, a drowsiness-inducing antihistamine, whether you’re experiencing allergies or not. It turns out that popping […]