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There is no question that getting your share of a good night’s deep, restful, rejuvenating sleep is essential for good health.  Heck, it’s essential for life itself, yet so many of us suffer night after night lying in bed, trying to fall asleep only to be disappointed again and again.  Here are some proven steps…

How can a piece of paper make a sleep set last longer? Well, it can’t, unless you’re stuffing multiple reams of Dunder-Mifflin’s finest into the upholstery layers of a mattress. Yet bedding companies have known for years that offering a longer warranty, no matter how convoluted, changes the public’s perception of a mattress, making them…

“Get on top of a new mattress and get to the bottom of making the right purchase” is the theme of this year’s Better Sleep Month, which begins May 1 and is sponsored by the Better Sleep Council, the consumer education arm of the International Sleep Products Association. This year’s message is designed to help…

Should that be the headline of every mattress ad ever written? Seriously, think about that for a second because most consumers have absolutely no idea how important it is to sleep on a comfortable mattress. It’s important because the right mattress will give them the restorative sleep they desperately need. You think I am being…

Casey Vandeventer did not mean to text the name of her dead father to a friend. In fact, she wasn’t even conscious when it happened. No, this isn’t the beginning of a ghost story and Vandeventer, 31, wasn’t possessed. She was sleeptexting, and she’s not alone, according to researchers like Dr. Michael Gelb, a clinical…

Sleep-related “brainwashing” and shrinking brain cells sound scary but may hold the key to treating debilitating neurological disorders like Alzherimer’s disease. A recent study from New York’s University of Rochester Medical Center, published in the journal Science, shows that the brain’s glymphatic system, which washes away certain toxins from the brain, does most of its…

There’s good news for the 18 million Americans with sleep apnea, a disorder that causes airways to repeatedly collapse during sleep. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers have developed a surgically implanted “pulse generator” that senses when a patient is struggling to breathe and then stimulates the hypoglossal nerve in the neck…

“You are getting very sleepy.” Add a swinging chain watch and a magician, and you’ll be out in seconds. A new study conducted at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology shows that the words involved in coaxing your brain to sleep may be more important than the magic….

Why do humans sometimes cough while asleep, but they never sneeze? According to Dr.Fredric Neuman, in a recent post as his “Fighting Fear” blog in Psychology Today, it’s a matter of preservation. Being a quiet sleeper may have protected early humans from nighttime predators. Imagine a saber-tooth tiger treading silently through woods when suddenly he…