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How is a Lack Of Sleep Affecting Our Hormones?
Take a group of healthy, lean young males in the mid 20's and limit them to 5 hours of sleep for just one week and you will find a marked...

Helder Barroso
Nov 26, 20191 min read


SLEEP CONNECTION WITH TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT
Let's say you went on a strict diet for 2 weeks in the hopes of losing fat. That is precisely what researchers did to a group of...

Helder Barroso
Nov 21, 20191 min read


SLEEP CONNECTION WITH WEIGHT GAIN AND OBESITY
According to Dr Matthew Walker when your sleep becomes short, you will gain weight. The first concerns are 2 hormones that control...

Helder Barroso
Nov 20, 20193 min read


CAN A LACK OF SLEEP CONTRIBUTE TO TYPE 2 DIABETES?
According to Dr Matthew Walker from the book Why We Sleep the answer is yes. Early warning signs of a link between sleep loss and...

Helder Barroso
Nov 19, 20192 min read


SLEEP LOSS AND THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Adults 45 years old or older who sleep fewer than six hours a night are 200 percent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke during...

Helder Barroso
Nov 18, 20194 min read


Sleep Deprivation and the Body
A lot of us look at health as just diet and exercise, however sleep in my opinion is right up there; it is the foundation on which the...

Helder Barroso
Nov 17, 20191 min read


SLEEP AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
The two most feared diseases throughout developed nations are dementia and cancer. Both are related to inadequate sleep. A lack of sleep...

Helder Barroso
Nov 16, 20192 min read


Have you ever pulled an “all-nighter,” deliberately?
Is pulling an all-nighter a wise idea? Dr Matthew Walker conducted a study, him and his team took a large group of individuals and...

Helder Barroso
Nov 15, 20192 min read


SLEEP - PAY ATTENTION
There are many ways in which a lack of sufficient sleep will kill you. Some take time; others are far more immediate. One brain function...

Helder Barroso
Nov 14, 20193 min read


SLEEP-THE-NIGHT-AFTER LEARNING
The second benefit of sleep for memory comes after learning, one that effectively clicks the “save” button on those newly created files....

Helder Barroso
Nov 13, 20193 min read


SLEEP FOR THE BRAIN
Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness. It is far more than that. Our nighttime sleep is an exquisitely complex, metabolically active,...

Helder Barroso
Nov 12, 20193 min read


SLEEP IN MIDLIFE AND OLD AGE - PART 2
The third sleep change with advanced age is that of circadian timing. In sharp contrast to adolescents, seniors commonly experience a...

Helder Barroso
Nov 11, 20194 min read


SLEEP IN MIDLIFE AND OLD AGE
Sleep seems to be more problematic and disordered in older adults. The effects of certain medications more commonly taken by older...

Helder Barroso
Nov 11, 20194 min read


HOW SHOULD WE SLEEP? DO YOU TAKE NAPS?
Humans are not sleeping the way nature intended. The number of sleep bouts, the duration of sleep, and when sleep occurs have all been...

Helder Barroso
Nov 8, 20195 min read


THE SLEEP CYCLE
Humans don’t just sleep, but cycle through two completely different types of sleep. The named these non–rapid eye movement, or NREM,...

Helder Barroso
Nov 8, 20192 min read


ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP?
How do you know whether you’re routinely getting enough sleep? While a clinical sleep assessment is needed to thoroughly address this...

Helder Barroso
Nov 8, 20192 min read


Sleep Pressure & Caffeine
Our 24 hour circadian rhythm is the first of the two factors determining wake and sleep. The second is sleep pressure. At this very...

Helder Barroso
Nov 6, 20194 min read


Jet Lag
The advent of the jet engine was a revolution for the mass transit of human beings around the planet. However, it created an unforeseen...

Helder Barroso
Nov 5, 20192 min read


Melatonin
Your suprachiasmatic nucleus communicates its repeating signal of night and day to your brain and body using a circulating messenger...

Helder Barroso
Nov 3, 20192 min read


Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bets, Not After!
In my line of work I have many people seat in front of me saying their are ready to commit to their, health, change their habits, even...

Helder Barroso
Oct 25, 20192 min read
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