Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Short sleep duration seems to burn out hormone-releasing systems in the body—but does it play a role in erectile dysfunction? Scientists made progress in understanding how short sleep duration affects the ability of men to have and maintain an erection in 2022, a literature review maintains. The picture, however, is still far from completely clear.…
By the time you reach middle age, you surely have been around when a friend or coworker got sick and threw up everywhere. Or maybe it happened one time in school (and it’s a story that even might come up at the class reunion). Whenever it happens, the scene can be hard to get out…
Flu season is raging. This year it’s type A, at least in Arizona where I work full-time in an emergency department. Whether type A, type B, COVID, or the plain old common cold, homemade chicken soup is good for recovering from sickness. It’s one of the foods that fight viral infections. Just like sleep, chicken…
Years ago, before I heard of light therapy lamps, I had been living in northern California during the winter. It was a place that was very different from where I had grown up. Fog blanketed the land in the mornings, and it was always cloudy in the afternoon. Some mornings I’d have to drive 35…
If you’re a certain type of person, you should keep an acupressure mat on hand to use along one with more traditional forms of pain relief, like acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Acupressure mats are not for most people despite the glowing consumer testimonials. They’re a self-selected group: those who’ve purchased one. Pain, even just a touch…
Since the human body makes it for itself, everyone should always have enough vitamin D. Reaching a level of 20-50 ng/ml shouldn’t ever be a problem. Yet sometimes it is. When you don’t have enough of that particular vitamin, you get profoundly tired. It doesn’t even matter if you’ve slept enough hours. When the sun…
It’s not at all widely talked about, but did you know your dreams can help heal you? Whether or not you remember them, they can help heal you mentally and emotionally. That ties into actual physical healing as detailed in books like The Body Keeps the Score If you remember dreams and work with them,…
Is your dream about a need found in Maslow’s Hierarchy? If so, you’ve had a Needs-Centered Dream. The further down toward the base of the pyramid the need is, the more serious it is. A party There was a party in your head last night when you were sleeping. All of your favorite people were…
Swap daily activities between the morning and the rest of your day as needed for resiliency and success. Once upon a time, there was a young boy with many bad habits. This bothered his father, so he corrected him. “Don’t do this,” the father would say. “Don’t do that.” The young man ignored him. Over…
“I slept like a baby!” Really? You must have been in the fantastic fetal sleeping position for most of the night. You were turned to your side and had your legs tucked up, maybe even as far as up to your chest. Some mattress-selling sites seem to be under the delusion that there are significant…