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IF you want a good night’s sleep you’re better off sleeping solo, Australian researchers have found.

Understand how menstruation, pregnancy and menopause affect a woman’s sleep and how to minimize these conditions for improving sleep. Women face difficulty in falling and staying asleep than men. They also experience more daytime sleepiness. Poor concentration, poor performance at job and school and increased illnesses can result with lack of sleep. Many issues can [...]

Insomnia is a condition that many people can relate to. In fact, according to the National Institutes of Health, about 60 million of Americans are suffering from chronic insomnia annually. Although it is more common in older individuals, men are found to be more prone to suffer from it. Furthermore, insomnia is usually a symptom [...]

Some of us have no trouble falling asleep, taking as little as one to two minutes to enter twilight zone sleep. As in the case for all human functions, there is quite a bit of variation among us as to our capacity to sleep. Some are simply better at it than others, being able to [...]

Caffeine most commonly disrupts sleep. Nicotine can cause wakefulness. Quitting smoking can also cause transient insomnia. In fact, it has been suggested that if sleeping could be improved during withdrawal from smoking, then perhaps it would be easier to quit smoking. Your partner’s sleep habits can also cause you to have insomnia.  In one 1999 [...]

I have read varying opinions as to the impact trouble sleeping has on one’s overall health. One of the most important things to remember, if you can’t sleep for a night or two, is it will not have much of a negative impact on your performance the following day. So, if you are lying in [...]

Sleep problems may be related to tension according to a new report reported in Science Daily. The study announced that sleep problems may be experienced by individuals for a period at least half a year after intense life situations that result in feelings of nervousness. The study concentrated on a population sample of 16,627 ladies [...]

A sleep lab patient, Pasadena resident William H. Chapman, was tested after his wife wrote his doctor to express concern about his restless sleep. Chapman, 61, has been a heavy snorer for decades. “The descriptions of my snoring went from something like a growling bear to a machine that was going to knock down [...]