The Quality of Your Sleep Is Affected by Your Activity Level

The Quality of Your Sleep Is Affected by Your Activity Level

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Did you know that the quality of your sleep could be significantly improved just by moving more? An interesting new study has shown that increased physical activity leads to better and more refreshing sleep.
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How sleep can impact your memory?

How sleep can impact your memory?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
  Both the amount of time we sleep and the quality of sleep we have is very important. The following research investigated how sleep deficiency and sleep disturbance may affect the risk for dementia and all-cause mortality (Robbins R, et al., 2021). 2812 participants in the USA age 65 years...
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New research shows how many hours you need to avoid cognitive decline.

New research shows how many hours you need to avoid cognitive decline.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
  This study included 28 756 individuals, half of them lived in England and the other half lived in China (Ma,Y, et al., 2020). The participants from England were 50 years old or older, and the ones from China were 45 years old or older. You may have heard that...
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Feel calm and focused during the day without feeling sleepy and sleep good at night.

Feel calm and focused during the day without feeling sleepy and sleep good at night.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
  L-Theanine is an interesting substance. It is an amino acid found in tea. Green tea contains both caffeine and L-Theanine while coffee contains caffeine, but no L-Theanine. That’s why coffee and green tea don’t affect us exactly the same way, because L-Theanine makes us feel calm and relaxed and...
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This is affected by too little quality sleep

This is affected by too little quality sleep

The following was a small study, but it is interesting because the participants were young females and males with an average age of 28.8 years (Montesinos L, et.al., 2018). Their average body mass index was 23.4 and their resting heart rate was 63.1 which are considered good.  Sleep and balance...
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Sleep, an easy way to improve your health

Sleep, an easy way to improve your health

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler
  Getting enough sleep on a regular basis seems to be one of many steps you can take to help stay healthy. In a recent study the researchers checked the blood of the participants for an important inflammatory factor called NF-kappaB which has shown to be linked to diabetes, cardiovascular...
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