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OXNARD, Calif. – A day after requesting a trade from the Dallas Cowboys, All-Pro defensive end Micah Parsons was in attendance for the team’s Saturday training camp practice. He did not speak with reporters afterward, while Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones held court for 16 minutes, sharing his side on where things stand with the star player. Jones …

The darkened ward held just six patients – all young women, all fast asleep. The air was heavy with the funk of unwashed bodies, and filled with tortured whimpers. If these women were dreaming, they were almost certainly having nightmares. This was psychiatrist Dr William Sargant’s so-called ‘Sleep Room,’ a sinister ward in a London hospital, where he subjected hundreds …

Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission – learn more Sleep-deprived Americans are turning to a common drugstore supplement in droves after Reddit users hailed magnesium as a ‘game-changer’ for insomnia. Fans claim magnesium glycinate, a gentler form of the …

People have been told for decades to get eight solid hours, yet a huge data set now suggests that when you sleep can overshadow how long you sleep. More than one in three American adults routinely get less than seven hours of nightly rest. In a new analysis of 88,461 volunteers wearing wrist actigraphy sensors, Professor Shengfeng Wang …

Long Islanders suffering from sleep apnea inundated the sleep center at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson with phone calls earlier this year after the Food and Drug Administration approved Zepbound, one of the new weight loss medications, as the first drug to treat the condition. “Patients were really curious about this,” said David Warkentin, system director for Catholic Health Sleep Service. Six months …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Experts agree that seven to nine hours of sleep is ideal for most adults — but when it comes to your health, the total number of hours might not be the most important factor. In a major new study led by teams from Peking University and Army Medical University, sleep irregularity has …

This One Sleep Habit Could Be Secretly Wrecking Your Health  SciTechDaily Your sleep schedule could be making you sick, says massive new study  ScienceDaily Saunas can improve mood, sleep and health, expert shares  Fox News A Study Found Too Much Sleep Increases Risk of Death. Here’s Why.  sciencealert.com No fixed bedtime raises heart attack and stroke risk by 26% and even 7-8 hours of …

Scientists discover why your brain demands sleep  Boing Boing Sleepiness Could Be Triggered by a Power Overload in Our Brain  ScienceAlert Our brain’s mitochondria may play a crucial role in the onset of sleep  New Scientist Sleep cycle triggered by electrical overload in brain cells  EarthSky Research results suggest that drowsiness may be caused by mitochondrial overload  GIGAZINE Source link

A groundbreaking international study, recently published in Health Data Science, analyzed objective sleep data from 88,461 adults in the UK Biobank and found significant associations between sleep traits and 172 diseases. The research, led by teams from Peking University and Army Medical University, highlights sleep regularity — such as bedtime consistency and circadian rhythm stability — as an underrecognized but …

Our usual understanding of sleep starts with the brain and ends with the mattress, yet new evidence points to a far smaller arena. Two hundredths of a millimeter below the surface of a nerve cell, the mitochondria may be counting the minutes we stay awake, then ordering the lights out. A team working with Drosophila melanogaster shows that the same …