By LOIS ROGERS FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 17:31 EDT, 28 June 2021 | UPDATED: 17:31 EDT, 28 June 2021 After a harrowing childhood, a troubled first marriage, and the loss of two of her children, Maz Rhodes suffered for years with depression, as well as insomnia. In fact, the two have strong links — according to one major study...
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Why Sleep Deprivation Kills
Going without sleep for too long kills animals but scientists haven’t known why. Newly published work suggests that the answer lies in an unexpected part of the body. Inside a series of tubes in a bright, warm room at Harvard Medical School, hundreds of fruit flies are staying up late. It has been days since...
How sleepless nights compromise the health of your gut
by Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Credit: CC0 Public Domain It is well known that individuals who work night shifts or travel often across different time zones have a higher tendency to become overweight and suffer from gut inflammation. The underlying cause for this robust phenomenon has been the subject of many studies that tried...
CBD May Possibly Interfere With Your Daily Medication
Experts share how cannabidiol can impact anxiety medication, blood thinners and even pain relievers. By Julia Ries, On Assignment For HuffPost 03/21/2019 05:45am ET The interest in cannabidiol (aka CBD) ― a nonpsychoactive chemical found in marijuana and hemp plants ― is only growing. It has made its way into our shampoos and lotions. There are CBD-infused smoothies,...
Sleeping 5 hours or less a night associated with doubled risk of cardiovascular disease
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Munich, Germany – Aug. 26, 2018: Middle-aged men who sleep five hours or less per night have twice the risk of developing a major cardiovascular event during the following two decades than men who sleep seven to eight hours, according to research presented today at ESC Congress 2018.1 Study author Ms...
Sleeping too much or not enough may have bad effects on health
Fewer than six and more than ten hours of sleep per day are associated with metabolic syndrome and its individual components, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health that involved 133,608 Korean men and women aged 40-69 years. Researchers at Seoul National University College of Medicine found that compared to individuals...