5 Thoughts on What Happens to Your Brain When Don’t Sleep Enough

5 Thoughts on What Happens to Your Brain When Don’t Sleep Enough

There are any number of ways to keep your brain healthy, having to do with healthy diet, movement and stress reduction. But one of the big brain savers is all about what you do at night, and by that we mean sleep. It is truly amazing, refreshing, restorative stuff and if you’re not getting enough or just not doing it very well, the consequences can be more serious than you might think. Sure, an under-slept brain won’t be able to perform particularly well on the team Zoom call or, for that matter, doing any kind of activity that rises above the routine, but that’s just the beginning of the problems.
Sleep Tech that Actually Helps Upgrade Your Nightly Zzzzzzzs

Sleep Tech that Actually Helps Upgrade Your Nightly Zzzzzzzs

The core good-sleep habits that I’ve advocated for long before our lives were upended, are now even more important ---but the good news is you’ve now got a new sleep ally in your corner – in the form of an array of sleep tracking devices that have the potential to change the rules of the sleep game in your favor. Where to start? Here’s my in-a-nutshell guide to the ‘sleep tech’ that’s ‘disrupting’ sleep in a good way – and why you should take advantage:
9 Ways Your Sleep Position Can Help – or Harm – Your Health

9 Ways Your Sleep Position Can Help – or Harm – Your Health

With sleep taking up roughly a third of each day, it’s important to do it well. As you probably know first-hand, sleeping well can be easier said than done. Even in the best of times, sound sleep can be a challenge and the past few years have only added to it. While there are almost countless ways for a good night’s rest to be interrupted, perhaps one of the most overlooked is sleep position. If your body’s not in a comfortable, nicely aligned position, not only may you struggle to get your 40 winks, you may find other aspects of your health impacted as well.

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