1 Understand your own sleep type and determine your physiological rhythm Sleep type measurement table MEQ-SAWhy do people have these three sleep types? According to the viewpoint of evolutionary theory, we can trace back to the genes left by humans in ancient times. When there was no advanced civilization and humans just discovered fire, it was the hunting era. Every night, people would sit around the fire to keep warm. At that time, humans had already developed a division of labor. When night fell, some people would stay to guard the fire and prevent it from going out. Some people would get up early in the morning to hunt, and some people would intersperse these tasks. Generation after generation, although it is now a civilized

Troubled by insomnia? This cup of tea may help you Are you still tossing and turning at two o’clock in the morning? You are not energetic during the day, but you are very awake at night. Is this the norm in your life? The fast-paced life of modern times makes many people suffer from insomnia. However, do you know? The longan and red dates commonly found in the kitchen can be combined to become a “weapon” to relieve insomnia! It has been recorded in the Chinese medicine classic “Compendium of Materia Medica” that longan and red dates have the effect of calming the mind and helping sleep. Longan can nourish the heart and spleen, nourish blood and calm the mind, while red dates can nourish

Recently, the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM) under the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) published an article entitled A randomized controlled study of weighted chain blankets for insomnia in psychiatric disorders, which provides another option for insomnia patients to have a good night’s sleep. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that among people with insomnia problems, those who slept with heavier blankets were nearly 20 times more likely to relieve insomnia than those who slept with light blankets, and not only did the severity of insomnia decrease, but their sleep quality and daytime sleepiness also improved. This open clinical follow-up study involved 120 participants with clinical insomnia symptoms and at least one psychiatric disorder (major depression, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder),

When I was still working at my old employer, my team head once told me that her one-and-a-half-year-old son would often sleep well and then sit up from the bed and cry with his eyes closed. No matter how she and her husband tried to comfort him, it was useless. He would have to cry for a while before calming down, and then fall asleep again after being comforted. She said she didn’t know what was going on. After thinking about it, it didn’t seem like he was scared by anything during the day, and he was in good spirits and didn’t seem to be sick. This kind of “unconsolable crying at night” is familiar to parents of children aged 1-3 years old. I have

It is well known that lack of sleep initially manifests itself as fatigue, weakness, irritability, and difficulty concentrating. A few people who experience chronic sleep deprivation may even experience disorientation, paranoia, and hallucinations. To date, several animal studies have shown that chronic sleep deprivation is fatal, and that not sleeping at all leads to inevitable premature death. However, decades after the academic community began studying sleep deprivation, a core question about this phenomenon has not been resolved: Why do animals die without sleep? Now, neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School, HMS, have discovered an unexpected causal relationship between lack of sleep and premature death. In sleep deprivation studies of fruit flies, researchers found that they always observed a large accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in

New research suggests a neural link between depression and sleep problems. Researchers found functional connections between brain regions associated with short-term memory, self-awareness, and negative emotions. This functional connection can cause people with depression to dwell on negative thoughts and lead to poor sleep quality. The research may improve sleep quality in people with depression and open up new targeted therapies. The relationship between depression, sleep, and functional connectivity. Image source: Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry Depression and sleep problems often go hand in hand. About 75% of people with depression report significant sleep disorders, such as difficulty falling asleep and insufficient sleep time (insomnia). People with insomnia are at higher risk of depression and anxiety than those with normal sleep. By analyzing