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Why do men fall asleep after sex?

You may not know it, but prolactin could have got you in trouble in the past—if you are a man, that is. Prolactin is the hormone that is responsible in part for a man’s sexual gratification and it is also the hormone that makes them drowsy after sex, so if you have got in trouble with...

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How to de-smell your new memory foam mattress

There is nothing like sleeping on a memory foam mattress, no other material is able to mould itself so perfectly to each and every sleeper’s exact body shape and posture. Memory foam has changed the way people sleep, in effect making every other mattress material obsolete in one fell swoop....

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Does foam get heavy after years of use?

The saying that there is power in numbers could have been coined for the insect world. Individually insects do not amount for much but when they are taken in aggregate their influence on the wider world is staggering. Think of termites, alone one could barely put a dent in a building over many years,...

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Does sleeping tight mean you are safe from bed bugs?

It is one of those throwaway lines that most people have used at some point in their lives, “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”. However, most people haven’t given the meaning of this statement much thought, up until recently they haven’t needed to, as bed bugs...

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Do we stretch while we sleep?

You may not know it but when you are asleep you are taller than when you are awake. This may sound like a dream come true for some people, but unfortunately these height gains are not something that translate into the waking life. They are actually the result of being horizontal for a prolonged...

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Do electric blankets and memory foam mix?

Memory foam mattresses have revolutionised the way we sleep, giving us unprecedented levels of comfort and support. No other mattress material is able to come close to memory foam’s capacity to shape itself to each and every sleeper’s body shape and posture. Getting a memory foam mattress...

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Can sleepiness be cured?

We have all had those days before where keeping our eyes open seems impossible. The really annoying thing is that even though these days are often due to lack of sleep or too much enjoyment in the days before, sometimes they happen despite getting enough sleep the night before and looking after yourself. Recent...

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Asleep at the job?

Falling asleep on the job is never a good idea, there could be some serious repercussions. For starters, you could lose your job, also, depending on what you do for a living, you could injure or kill yourself or others. Most of us do not have jobs where a moments inattention can result in such terrible...

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Are we dreaming by accident?

Dreams are one of life’s mysteries, so far they have proved impenetrable and unfathomable by modern science. Even fundamental questions about dreaming remain unanswered. Though in the case of the most important question of all, it may be that we are searching for an answer where one doesn’t...

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Why is there no hard evidence why we dream?

With the almost endless discoveries that are announced on a daily basis, you would think that scientists would have discovered why we dream, though it seems that we are no closer to understanding that than we were twenty years ago. The problem for sleep researchers is that unlike most other human...

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6 ways to take charge when you dream

Dreaming is something that we all do, even if some people do not remember their dreams. There are many different theories on why we dream. Many believe that dreams are the brain’s way of sorting through memories, working out how to catalogue and store them, deciding which ones to keep and which...

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What is wrong with water mattresses?

Not all mattress materials were created equal. Memory foam, the revolutionary mattress material that was born in the crucible of the space race and uses cutting edge twentieth century chemical synthesis beats its competing mattress materials in every single metric that matters. In this series we will...

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