Ensuring your mind and body gets enough routine sleep may not be a priority. But recent research has discovered a link between sleep deprivation, weight gain and chronic disease.
Studies show if you are sleep deprived, you have a tendency to gain weight. Insufficient sleep is also linked to chronic diseases and conditions, such as:
obesity
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Narcolepsy is an incurable chronic sleep disorder marked by daytime sleepiness and involuntary periods of sleep. These sleepy causes are a narcoleptic’s brain’s incapacity to control sleep/wake circuits regularly. The root cause of narcolepsy is unknown. As such, there is no cure.
Throughout a narcoleptic’s day, they are struck by numerous fleeting sleep urges. [...]
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Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sensory disorder causing an urge to move or shake your legs due to a difficult to describe unpleasant feelings when at rest.
Restless leg syndrome is typically described as aching, tingling, burning, painful, creeping, crawling or unpleasant feeling, for which movement eases the inexplicable feeling.
RLS is common in pregnant women, [...]
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Are you having trouble sleeping and you’ve heard melatonin aides in getting sleep?
Melatonin is a hormone produced in your brain from the amino acid tryptophan by the pineal gland. The synthesis and release of melatonin are stimulated by darkness and suppressed by light. This suggests its involvement in regulation of diverse body functions.
Levels of melatonin [...]
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Somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 million Americans have sleep apnea. Its most common signs are loud snoring, choking or gasping for air while sleeping.
When you have sleep apnea, a common very serious disorder, your breathing stops or gets very shallow. These breathing pauses last 10 to 20 seconds or more, and may occur 20 [...]
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Are you having a hard time falling asleep or staying asleep? That’s what insomnia means, having a hard time falling or staying asleep.
Here are some good night’s sleep suggestions to help you fall and stay asleep.
Keep regular sleep habits by going to bed at the same time and get up at the same time every [...]
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Repeated nightmares are bad dreams that recur frequently and involve the same theme. Nightmares usually begin before the age of 10 and are considered a normal part of childhood and may continue into adulthood.
Night terrors are a sleep disorder in which a person quickly awakens from sleep in a terrified state. They are fairly [...]
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Do you snore? Or more accurately has someone else told you so. Before you start into that fruitless denial mode, and drive your bunk mate right out of your bed, ask them the all important question “Do I stop breathing in the mists of my snoring?”
Snoring is common in adults and usually [...]
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