Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Everyone everywhere has to sleep: rich, poor, young, old, tall, and short. Since charities help people of all types, many will take your used mattresses, bed, or other furniture donation. A low-cost or free mattress or bed can help someone of modest means stretch their dollar. Or it can help a homeless shelter or another…
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…
There’s a lot of talk in parent groups online and among experts about the benefits of weighted stuffed animals. If you have a child with a sensory processing disorder, autism, or ADHD, having a weighted stuffed animal tucked in with them in bed at night can help them sleep better. These special stuffed animals are…
Tips for night shift workers Several extensive studies have given working the night shift a bad name over the last fifteen years. Working the shift seems to promote lousy health habits. Night shift workers smoke more. They weigh more. They’re three times more likely to get into traffic accidents. These effects pool together. Altogether they…
Another name for the herb lemon balm is melissa. Melissa is also a girl’s name. The headline of this article could also read, “Can Melissa Work for Sleep?” The answer to that question is, “Yes, she could, but, hopefully, not just for sleep. She should also try to get paid while working.” But seriously, besides…
I’ve never thought of it that way before! What a good idea! That makes sense! Those are the kind of thoughts you might find yourself thinking in the middle of the night when a great idea strikes as you lie in darkness. I’ll have to write it down in the morning and work on it…
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…
Slap a sleep patch on and go right to sleep—it’s that simple, right? Not so fast! Where and how you put them on can even be more important than what’s in the patch itself. That’s not to say that what’s in the patch doesn’t matter. It does. There are many different formulations. Some have a…
Sleep music continues to grow in popularity and availability. There are channels on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and a new one on SiriusXM this month. Why wouldn’t sleep music become popular? It’s an easy, drug-free solution to sleeping difficulties. Whichever service you listen to, you’ll want to choose a source that’s not interrupted…
In the week before Christmas 2021, Brad Harbert of Ankeny, Iowa, a Des Moines suburb, was woken out of his sleep in the middle of the night. It wasn’t the alarm going off. He was sleeping through that. Rather, it was his dog Roxy, a Husky-Coonhound mix. Typically mellow, that night she was anything but.…