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Chronic sleep deprivation paired with regular physical activity can lead to fatigue, stress, and mood swings—undermining the benefits of both sleep and exercise. So, while exercise can help ...
More than half (56 percent) of perimenopausal women ages 40 to 59 sleep less than seven hours per night, and they’re more likely to have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep compared to ...
Improvement to cognitive performance caused by exercise could last for 24 hours, a new study shows. Scientists also linked getting 6 or more hours of sleep to better memory test scores the next day.
Compared to other pharmacological methods for improving sleep, music has no reported side effects [3] and is easy to administer. [4] In direct comparisons, music has improved sleep quality greater than audiobooks [5] [6] and has been comparable to sedative hypnotics. [7]
The sleep cycle is an oscillation between the slow-wave and REM (paradoxical) phases of sleep. It is sometimes called the ultradian sleep cycle , sleep–dream cycle , or REM-NREM cycle , to distinguish it from the circadian alternation between sleep and wakefulness .
In a study with 3000 patients, it was found that men and women who sleep less than 5 hours have elevated body mass index (BMI). In another study that followed about 70.000 women for 16 years, there was a significant increase in body weight in those who slept 5 hours or less compared to those who slept 7–8 hours. [1] [2] [8]
Participants in a small study slept an average of 27.7 minutes longer when they took regular exercise breaks in the evening over a four-hour period compared with when they sat uninterrupted.
When we sleep, the body cycles through four different stages of sleep, which are broken down into REM (rapid eye movement) sleep and non-REM sleep, Dr. Andrew Varga, a neuroscientist and physician ...