You may already know that good nutrition and sufficient sleep are both important components of overall health. However, you may not be familiar with how good sleep and a healthy diet are interconnected.
You’ve probably heard how rest is important for injury recovery. Beyond moving around less and cutting back on exercise, people often fail to consider the importance of sleep as part of the recovery process.
Your choice of pillow is certainly as important as your choice of sheets—and a little more complicated because there are more options to consider. It’s important to take into account your primary sleeping position,
Why do I wake up in the middle of the night? Sleep expert Dr. Shelby Harris explains what happens when we sleep, how our sleep cycles work, the role of each of the four stages of sleep, and how to get be
In this episode we ask Gina Poe, a sleep scientist from UCLA, about her seminal work on both REM and non-REM sleep. We talk about the role of memory replay in REM, how to measure such replay in rats, as well as the ways in which R