If you nap during the day, it may interfere with your ability to sleep deeply at night. Being awake for a long time can enhance your homeostatic sleep drive (pressure for sleep). In other words, the longer you stay awake, the more you want to sleep. When you finally do sleep, you m...
eszopiclone (Lunesta®), and temazepam (Restoril®). They may put you to sleep, but they result in poor sleep quality, which means you may be just about as tired as if you hadn’t slept – especially over the long term.
(G1) Common reasons for not liking to do the body scan were: “hard to stay still,” (G1) “too repetitive,” (G1) “too hard to keep my mind under control,” (G2) and “too long.” (G1) Many of the participants found yoga to be their preferred technique. One said, “I ...
While missing out on a few hours of sleep for a few nights might not affect acute endurance performance much, the effect that high quality sleep has on your immune system – and the ability to recover (or not) – is quite astounding. Both of these matter in the long run, as they affe...