Certain medications, including steroids, decongestants, blood pressure drugs, asthma drugs and antidepressants can interfere with normal sleep patterns. If you’re having a problem sleeping, and you are taking one or more of these meds, it could be that the drugs are affecting your sleep adversely. The best course of action is [...]
Watch your diet
Have you ever heard the old adage, “You are what you eat?” Well, here’s a new one, “As you eat, so shall your sleep be.”
What you eat plays a major role in your quality of sleep. You need to eat a balanced diet to give your body the correct amount [...]
If you’ve ever suffered from sleep apnea, you should know that people with that sleep disorder are 30% more at risk of a heart attack or death over any 5 year period than those who don’t have the disorder.
And, it has a stepped up increase of risk with each degree of severity. Those with [...]
It seems that the rule for sleep in the military is 4 in 24 which means that you must get 4 hours sleep in each 24 hour period.
When this policy was instituted, it wasn’t clear if it was a temporary situation or meant to be applied to a certain number of days in a row.
Obviously, [...]
Did you know that driving under the influence of sleep deprivation is as dangerous as driving under the influence of alcohol? What?…driving drowsy?..
If you, like me, have ever been way too tired to drive, yet kept going, you know what I’m talking about. You know that you’ve dozed off and if it hadn’t [...]
Are you a fan of Rocketman? Do you remember the eight months of suspended animation they were supposed to go through on their way to Mars?
The chimpanzee got into rocketmans sleep “booth” and poor old rocketman was left to fend for himself for eight months.
We all think of this sort of “sleep” as something [...]
