Ergoflex blog
4 dangerous side effects of sleep deprivation
06-06-2014So you have been burning the candle at both ends, be careful you don’t get burnt! Sure you can get away with it for a while but the reality is that we need sleep and we need to get it every night. Sleep plays a vital role in a huge array of physical and psychological functions, from memory recall...
3 ways to take charge of your brain for better business meetings
04-06-2014You know that the night before a big meeting or presentation you will end up having a terrible sleep. Rather than peacefully drifting off and having a full and restful night’s sleep, you will spend half the night tossing and turning, trying to get to sleep. The result is you feel like death warmed...
What is sleep paralysis
02-06-2014What if alien probes and things that went bump in the night were all in your mind? What if we told you that all the people who have been visited by something when they are in their bed, who have been held down and had things done to them, were actually suffering from something that doctors call sleep...
How to get my teenager to sleep better
30-05-2014Teenagers and sleep are a difficult combination. They always seem to want to stay up much later than they should and then they want to stay asleep much later than they should. No matter how much sleep they get it never seems like enough, most teens are tired and grumpy. For many parents dealing with...
Use the 90 minute rule for better sleep
28-05-2014Sleep can be a difficult beast, for most of us we never seem to get enough or even if we do we still wake feeling average. So what is the deal, is there any rule that can help us to feel better when we wake? Turns out there very well may be a rule that can help. Recent research has found that we should...
Sleep deprivation and driver fatigue
26-05-2014Sleep deprivation can make you feel like death, but did you also know that it could turn you into a killer? It certainly can, in fact if you go through the stats on accidents you will find that many of them have been caused by sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep has caused many deaths and will cause many...
How to transition to shift work
23-05-2014If you have a new job or role that demands you do shift work then you will need to adapt. Going from a regular sleep routine to a shift work routine can be incredibly hard on the body. It is incredibly difficult and many people will never properly adapt to their shift work schedule. While there are no...
How to make sure your kids sleep well on holiday
21-05-2014Travelling is incredibly exciting, exploring new countries, meeting new people. It can also be exhausting, you are out of your comfort zone and often in a new time zone. It all takes its toll. Travelling with kids is even more exhausting, you have to try and make sure that they sleep well so you can...
Food and drinks that affect sleep
19-05-2014The saying that you are what you eat is true in a number of ways. Most of us understand that it is true very literally, that the food we eat is used to build our body. Each cell is replaced at least once every seven years, meaning that the food you eat is not just important for fuelling your body, it...
Could kiwi fruit help you sleep better
15-05-2014In our ongoing quest to find the best food or drink to help you sleep better, we bring you the kiwi fruit! Yes, that green (or sometimes golden) fruit may be the sleep aid that you have been looking for. As with any of the suggestions we make to you, it also may not help you at all. That is the reality...
5 tried and tested better sleep tips
13-05-2014The more we about sleep the more we have come to realise how central it is to our general health and wellbeing. In the past sleep was seen as a way of ‘recharging the batteries’ but as scientists uncover the reasons that we sleep they have expanded our understanding of this fundamental phenomenon....
How your mood and weight are related to sleep
10-05-2014It seems that your weight, your mood and your sleep are all linked together in a range of interesting ways. A new study has found that bad sleep makes obese people have greater mood disturbances while another study has found that lack of sleep makes your more hungry and another study that has shown...
