This will be the first post in a series about learning to sleep better. For those that have followed this blog for a bit, you’ll know that I’ve talked a lot about my experiments with all kinds of sleep remedies. From Valerian Tea to Calcium Supplements to Isochronic Tracks to my awful experience with Ativan… Read More…
In my mind, there are basically three different kinds of sleep problems. And they come with three different sets of solutions. What If There’s No Time For Sleep? The first problem is scheduling. For whatever reason, many people find that they can’t find the time to sleep. Pretty shortsighted I think. Lack of sleep is… Read More…
This is a fascinating discussion from TEDMED, talking about the causes and effects of sleep deprivation. Presenters are: Russell Sana: Executive Director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard University Dave Dickenson: Former CEO of Zeo, Inc. Ryan Hurd: Founder of Dreamstudies.org James Maas: CEO of Sleep For Success Lisa Fields: Lisa Fields and… Read More…
This video is an excellent overview on why the Snooze Button on your alarm clock is probably a really bad idea. What’s not talked about here, but is exactly the same idea, is why napping too long can cause you to enter into deep sleep, and wake up groggy. It’s best to stick to a… Read More…
There have been lots of recent media attention into reports linking Deep Sleep and memory consolidation – and perhaps the reason why we retain and remember less as we age.With experiments by a UC Berkeley team, young and old subjects were given a set of word pairs – one word was ordinary, and the other… Read More…
With the demise of the Zeo Sleep Manager, my favorite sleep monitoring device (and probably the most accurate consumer device available), it’s time to decide on a new go-to measurement application. Lifehacker had a survey of users who determined that Sleep Cycle (an iTunes application) was the preferred application of users who voted – with… Read More…
There are two distinct camps in the teaching your baby to sleep arena. They tend to be routed in ethnicity, but what was once standard procedure in the West is now questioned. The two techniques are called The Feber Method and Co-Sleeping. How do you know which of these two ideas is right? The Ferber… Read More…
This is a really interesting press release I saw regarding the use of zolpidem (Ambien) and its effects to enhance memory consolidation. It will be interesting to see where this leads, although it begs the question “at what point to the risks of taking Ambien outweigh the potential rewards?”. From The University of California, Riverside:… Read More…
I listen to “The Skeptics Guide To The Universe” podcast, and find it a wonderful reset to my normal belief system. I like to believe most of what I read, especially if I see it in more than one place. I trust that scientists are actually doing science, and not manipulating data and manufacturing PR.… Read More…
I watch the Daily Show with John Stewart most mornings on HULU, and I’ve noticed over the last couple of weeks that Intermezzo® is running ads all over the place. Quite the marketing - targeting HULU users. When I see the ad, and know the money that they’re pouring in to this campaign, I get angry. Intermezzo®… Read More…
