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Painful memories? Sleep can help

Even if the scientists are still debating exactly why we sleep, seeming to constantly swing back and forth between several equally plausible possibilities - which could all be right simultaneously - more and more of the tangible benefits of sleep are being catalogued and explored. Whether these benefits...

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Energy drinks vs sleep

Energy drinks have gone from being virtually unheard of a decade ago to filling half the fridges in our stores. Often these drinks are marketed as containing vitamins and herbal extracts that are supposed to make your more healthy and alert. However, the main ingredients in these drinks, the ones...

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Can going to sleep late make you gain weight?

People go to extreme lengths to lose weight—crash diets, rigorous exercise regimes and a multitude of other painful, expensive and often unproductive methods—but many are unaware of one of the easiest ways to help your body lose weight: going to bed early. That’s right. An increasing...

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Do Astronauts sleep better?

While most of us know a few things about life in space, one aspect that most people do not even think about is sleeping. Astronauts can spend up to six months living in space, which means that they would spend about two of those months asleep. So what is it like sleeping in space? In a word: difficult....

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Bedroom colours for better sleep

Your bedroom is your night time sanctuary, where you escape from the world each night to restore yourself with a rejuvenating night’s sleep. It is therefore important that your bedroom is as conducive to sleep as possible. That means making sure that it is a good temperature, that there is some...

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Why scientists cannot agree on why we sleep

There seems to be nothing that science cannot answer. We already know how the universe was created and we know how we inherit genetic information from our parents. However, while science might seem infallible, there are a number of big questions that it still struggles to answer. One of these...

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Grinding your teeth when asleep

There are a number of different sleep related disorders that plague people. While many, like insomnia and sleep walking, are well known and often talked about, others feature less prominently and are often rarely discussed. One such sleep disorder is Bruxism, or tooth grinding. This sleep disorder...

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Are you a sleep drooler?

Most of us will drool a little bit when we sleep at night, it is only natural. For some unfortunate people, sleep drooling can become an embarrassing and annoying condition. The reason the majority of us drool at night is simple, when we are asleep our body is more relaxed and our jaws open,...

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Why an alarm clock is disrupting your sleep

Most of us have an alarm clock beside our beds. Getting to work late is certainly not encouraged in most places of employment and saying that you do not own an alarm clock is hardly likely to encourage any sympathy from your boss. In other words, we all need to have an alarm clock, despite the fact...

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Want better dreams? Quit smoking

While everyone dreams, even if they do not ever remember them in the morning, some people dream more than others, as numerous scientific studies have shown. One interesting study found that people who have smoked cigarettes for a reasonable amount of time and have then quit have experienced a dramatic...

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Tricking your brain into sleep

Sleep is one of those critical aspects of life. We all need it and if we do not have enough of it we will suffer throughout the day until we recharge our batteries, unless of course, you know how to trick your brain into thinking that it has had a full night’s sleep when it hasn’t. The...

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Sleeping better for better relationships

We have all seen it on TV, when there are relationship troubles, one of the spouses will sleep on the couch. Sleeping separately is seen as a sign that there is trouble in a relationship; however, new research might just flip that on its head. The reason for this is fairly obvious when you think about...

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