By Jenny Jin — 2020
Just like acupuncture, acupressure stimulates points across the body that correspond to various ailments or conditions like anxiety.
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Many students believe that the more they study, the better they will perform in school, even if that means sacrificing a night of rest.
Acupuncturist Laurieanne Nabinger, RN, LEAMP instructs Veterans in an acupressure self-care routine for sleep.
Author and essayist Andrew Solomon has written on a widely divergent range of topics, including Soviet artists, Libyan governance, childrearing, and the politics of the deaf. For this event, his famously obsessive attention focused on the topic of sleep.
More than 50 million Americans suffer with some form of sleep deprivation, and the chances are you may be one. According to World Sleep Day, “Sleep problems constitute a global epidemic that threatens health and quality of life for up to 45% of the world’s population.
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Why do we need sleep? What is sleep? What happens when we don’t get enough? This Very Short Introduction addresses the biological and psychological aspects of sleep, providing a basic understanding of what sleep is and how it is measured, a look at sleep through the human lifespan, and the causes...
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch—there’s not a chance.
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature’s best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker.
In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are regularly sleep-deprived. This isn’t just a minor inconvenience: staying awake can cause serious bodily harm. Claudia Aguirre shows what happens to your body and brain when you skip sleep.
For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep―and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares.
Healthy sleep has been proven to be the single most important determinant in predicting longevity—more influential than diet, exercise or heredity—but our modern culture has become a study in sleep deprivation. Technology’s world without darkness wreaks havoc on our body clocks.