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Is it better to sleep without a pillow?
For most people, it is better to sleep with a pillow according to the latest research.
Sleeping without a pillow increases interocular pressure which is considered a risk for glaucoma patients.
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Is prolonged use of melatonin supplements safe for a 3-year-old?
Since melatonin is secerned by many glands (pituitary, thyroid, pineal, adrenals, and gonads), it might be a malfunction of one of these. I am not yet a physician, but I suggest you to try to properly ...
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Does Benadryl (=diphenhydramine) lead to tolerance? Can I use it to help with sleep?
First generation H1-antihistamines (such as diphenhydramine = Benadryl) are well known for their sedative effects explaining their limited use in patients with allergic rhinitis. Several ...
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Are computers bad for health?
Like all things too much of anything is bad for you. As a designer working in the tech industry for over a decade, here's a few things I experienced and that might (I hope not) impact you.
wrists ...
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Sleeping on stomach - why are people naturally drawn to it if it's bad?
Sleeping in a prone position is not bad. However there are some complications of it that can be negative. A simple example is drooling. A more important problem with sleeping in a prone position is ...
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What are the long-term side effects of melatonin?
In long term studies, the effects have been mixed but mild.
In hemodialysis patients, after about six months - melatonin no longer seemed to have physiologic effects but could still be detected at ...
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Tips to improve the sleep during the night
You should keep an eye on the sleeping environment's temperature and restrict the amount of light entering the space you sleep in. Eye masks are a cost-effective solution to reducing excessive light ...
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What is snoring and why am I so loud
"Snoring occurs during sleep when soft tissue in the upper airway vibrates as you breathe." (1) Typically, this will happen because the passage way for air narrows and the air rubs against the tissue ...
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How to know if ( or when) I fall asleep?
"How to know if (or when) I fall asleep, and not merely just lying there doing nothing?"
Sleep Retrograde Amnesia:
Retrograde amnesia refers to the loss of memory for things preceding a
certain ...
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Why does caffeine make me sleep better?
Caffeine Absorption Caffeine Capsules - 200mg - 84-120 minutes
So maybe you took the caffeine, were already tired so you napped(2 hours or 120 minutes) just as it was kicking in full blown and ...
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How to avoid snoring?
Remedies to control snoring:
Pillows. There is a pillow called the SONA pillow its FDA approved and is proven to work.
The study was performed to determine the ability of a new inclined
pillow ...
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Can oversleeping be harmful to overall health?
Studies have linked oversleeping with
Cognitive impairment
Depression
Increased inflammation
Increased pain
Impaired fertility
Higher risk of obesity
Higher risk of diabetes
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What type of food (herb, root) helps with sleep?
As an insomniac, I've looked into this myself, and found the following to be natural sleep-inducing foods (in no particular order):
Cherries -- The tarter, the better. They have melatonin!! And they ...
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How to get rid of insomnia naturally?
Sleep Hygiene. Learn it, try it, and see if it resolves your issue.
I've answered this similar question before.
Insomnia has different causes. The most common, outside of poor sleep hygiene, is ...
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How does poor sleep cause circles under one's eyes?
These dark circles can likely be attributed to vascular network prominence caused by hollowing of the contents of the orbital rim, pigmentary changes in the periorbital area caused by extravasated ...
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Term for a person who sleeps as they need to, rather than with any regular pattern?
As far as I know, there's no medical term for a person who does such a thing (and I doubt it would be labelled a disorder since practically everyone can do it to some extent), but the 2nd part of the ...
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Does sleeping position affect health?
I am focusing on one important health issue with respect to sleep position. Obstructive sleep apnea or apnoea (OSA) is a common condition where person has excessive snoring and disturbed sleep at ...
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Does conscious sleep impair immunity?
This is currently a researchable topic in neuroscience.
Actually its not about light sleep or deep sleep or resting.Neuroscience prefers to describe sleep in the context of the immunity into mainly ...
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Is daylight savings linked to heart attacks?
This connection has been reported by several groups, in credible journals (I left a few references below). The study and news article you are referring to is confirming earlier findings, it is not the ...
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How does apnea trigger the urge to breathe?
Medulla is the part of brain which controls respiration. There is a special chemosensitive area in ventrolateral medulla which has chemoreceptors to detect increased CO2 or Hydrogen ions in brain ...
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Does sleep irregularity affect my brain and health?
Sleep irregularity
In children, values for lower sleep duration were found to be strongly associated with increased metabolic risk.
Although obese children did not display radically different ...
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What are the best hours to sleep?
There are many evidences that a good night's sleep is the hallmark to have good health. Ideally you should go to bed between 10 pm and midnight and wake up when you feel like getting up in the morning....
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Does caffeine boost adenosine buildup?
Your question demonstrates a key understanding of homeostatic mechanisms: in many cases, long-term pharmaceutical modulation leads to compensatory changes that blunt the effects of the modulation. ...
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How much sleep do adults actually need?
Many well-done newer studies are supporting the theory that quality trumps quantity when it comes to sleep. This excellent article at lifehack.org lists 12 good sources, including “two studies (which)...
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What stages of REM sleep occur in medically induced sleep?
Sleep and general anaesthesia share a few similarities, but also have differences. From what I have read, they are sufficiently different that comparing anaesthesia to a certain sleep phase doesn't ...
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Can one's body temperature affect the quality of his/her sleep?
Yes. Body temperature drops at night almost 2 degrees fahrenheit.
Cranial cooling has been showing to lead to deeper sleep and help insomniacs.
Higher body temperatures during sleep are associated ...
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Why do people snore?
As explained here [1], it is the price we've paid for our ability to speak:
Obstructive sleep apnea is an anatomic illness caused by evolutionary changes in the human upper respiratory tract. ...
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Severe asthma and autoimmune skin reactions with no relief
There are numerous causes and sources of irritation for Asthma exacerbations. Your objective is finding out whether it's irritants (smoke, chemicals, lint, etc) or allergies (pollen, pet dander) that ...
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Tiredness. Needs opinions about the gym
I also suffer from similar symptoms.
For about 3 years, I have been going to the (fighting) gym every other day and training for hours. At home, I would do my own exercises as well.
By the end of 2-3 ...
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how can I get my sleeping cycle to normal again?
Many sleeping pills are addictive.
Many non-addictive sleeping pills can be mentally addictive.
If you do not mind using sleeping pills for the rest of your life, then that is a perfectly fine choice....
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