Ergoflex blog
TV might be ruining your sleep
30-09-2014For many years people have been worried about the impacts of TV on young children, with many areas of concern from intellectual development impairment to socialisation issues. One area that has not been covered in much detail before but could actually be of serious concern is the connection between TV...
Do you take your work to bed?
25-09-2014The old phrase ‘sleeping your way to the top’ may have a far more relevant meaning than the one most of us think of when we hear it. Rather than implying that you use sex as a means of advancing your career, recent research suggests that it could more accurately mean that by sleeping better...
Omega 3 could be the key for better sleep
17-09-2014We are a world of tired people, we are a race of exhausted individuals. The figures are quite scary, around a third of all adults state that they are not getting enough sleep. This is bad for all of us, aside from the many problems that lack of sleep can cause to individual people, it is dangerous for...
Common dreams and their meaning
15-09-2014Why do we dream? Little is known about how the human brain operates during sleep. Within the subject of sleep, one thing that is often debated amongst researchers and scientists is dreams. Although there is no definitive answer, as to why we dream there are several theories which have been researched....
The mystery of sleep solved
12-09-2014Could the mystery of sleep finally be solved? Do we finally know how sleep works? We very well may, thanks to a new study from researchers at Oxford University. They believe that they have found a so called ‘sleep-switch’ molecule that could be responsible for consciousness. Switch it and...
Could cancer be fought with better sleep
09-09-2014The more we have learnt about sleep the more we have come to realise that it is far more than a simple recharging of our batteries. In fact, sleep plays a central role in our health and wellbeing, both mentally and physically. We have read some amazing studies lately about how sleep helps regulate your...
Should sleep eating be classified as a disorder?
04-09-2014There are some very strange sleep disorders out there, the more we read about sleep the more crazy things we learn about what can go wrong with sleep! For example, have you ever heard of sleep eating? We hadn’t until just recently. It turns out that sleep eating is a real thing.
How to counteract daylight saving transition via sleep scheduling
02-09-2014Daylight savings... apparently you are good for farmers, or something like that. We can tell you who you are not good for: all of the rest of us! In fact, daylight savings has a measurably negative impact on the population in general, with accidents rising in the week following the switch. While some...
The incredible sleep experiments you probably did not know about
29-08-2014Every single day there are thousands of lab coated geniuses out there pushing the envelope of scientific knowledge further and further. It is easy to forget in our daily lives, but some people spend their days experimenting in a huge range of scientific fields and disciplines and the things that they...
It is official working out at night does not disrupt sleep
27-08-2014For a long time we have been told that having an evening work out, whether it is pumping iron or hitting the treadmill, disrupts our sleep. While anecdotally many people have felt that this is not true the science has not backed this up, so those who work out in the evening have been conflict, often...
It might be your own fault you are sleeping bad
18-08-2014Are you not sleeping well? It may very well be your own fault. Though many people who struggle with sleep related issues, including premature waking, problems falling asleep and restless sleep in general are tempted to look for causes to these problems, they may want to look for an external factor instead....
Is sleep time evidence that men and women are different?
15-08-2014Men are from Mars, women from Venus, or so they say. Even if we really are both just from Planet Earth it doesn’t mean that there are not some major differences between us. While we have greater equality than ever before, there is no denying that at a fundamental level men and women are different.
