Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
People get uncomfortable doing the same things day after day. They sit in chairs most of the day and don’t move all that much. With a stiffening of their joints and a tightening of their tendons, pain and stiffness skyrockets. Stretching or disciplines like tai chi and yoga are good solutions. Unfortunately, like meditation, they…
With trial and error and an adaptable attitude, you can sleep when you’re sick. When you’re sick, sleep is essential. The key to kicking your cold isn’t taking antibiotics or antivirals. It’s not healthy food or getting enough vitamins. It’s not ignoring your illness. It’s rest: sleep and rest are the key to getting over…
You spend about 1/3 of your day asleep in your bed in your bedroom. Then, most jobs—even the ones where you work from home—account for another 1/3 of the day, a total of 16 hours. Many people have a toilet, shower, and sink near or adjacent to the bedroom. You’re going to shower…
Lotioning your face and hands before going to bed is a good idea for everyone, man or woman. If you’re well-hydrated, you’re going to look better. Putting lotion on and letting it soak in helps you do this. If you live in a dry climate, the difference it makes is noticible. The skin is the…
Your intestines are an actual environment where things live. Namely, these living things are bacteria. Bacteria are occasionally harmful, but they’re often helpful. Antibiotics don’t discriminate between the harmful and helpful. They knock out both. This causes problems, from diarrhea to sleep. Antibiotics affect metabolites, namely short-chain fatty acids. Metabolites are necessary for certain metabolic…
10-3-2-1 sounds like something a quarterback might say when calling a play during a football game. Or something Mission Control might say before sending a spacecraft into orbit. And it is kind of like that. Instead of the endzone, the quarterback, or Mission Control, 10-3-2-1-0 is a countdown to Dreamland. It’s a reminder. Like PACTREPS, …
Staying in bed all day: not going anywhere, doing nothing—some have called it “bed rotting.” Rotting away is a very apt way to describe it. Bed rotting is a good way to make your health rotten. It’s a good way to ruin your sleep. The name is too cutesy for something so easy to avoid,…
Be careful with what you listen to and do first thing in the morning. First impressions are important. Make your first impression of the day a good one. A common saying in the media is, “If it bleeds, it leads.” People find stories featuring some emotional impact the most interesting. They like conflict. Media experience…
Water and sleep go together. And lots of people end up with a lot of reusable water bottles. Many collect them. Many are given promotional ones. Some of them are appealing, on sale, and people end up with them at the last minute when they’re checking out of a store. Or they get influenced by…
A child of seventeen—a girl—country bred—untaught—ignorant of war, the use of arms, and the conduct of battles—modest, gentle, shrinking—yet throws away her shepherd’s crook and clothes herself in steel, and fights her way through a hundred and fifty of hostile territory, never losing heart or hope and never showing fear and comes—she to whom a…
Dopamine is a drug that you make for yourself. Have you ever noticed how talking and joking with friends makes you feel happy? How about when you’ve been inspired and whip up something tasty in the kitchen? Have you ever taken a walk in nice weather and been happy that you got outdoors? You’ve taken…
When your AC calls it quits during the summer, getting a good night’s sleep can seem impossible. Fear not. We’ve got you covered with tips on how to catch some Z’s when your AC is broken. From creating a DIY cooling system to optimizing your sleeping environment, we’ll show you how to beat the heat…
There’s not a whole lot of creativity or originality when it comes to the way different people sit in a room. People tend to use a room in the same way. They favor the same chairs and the same places. Choices are dictated by the unchanging features of the room like the placement of the…