Have you experienced waking to brilliant morning sunshine feeling refreshed and alert? A major contributor to this energized mood is the intense blue light radiating from the sun. Within the visible light spectrum, blue wavelengths exert the strongest influence on your internal sleep-wake rhythm. Both natural sunlight and artificial sourcesContinue Reading
If insomnia is disrupting your life, numerous behavioral and lifestyle modifications can help you achieve better sleep. Here are ten effective strategies for conquering insomnia. Wake up at the same time each day. Sleeping in on weekends feels tempting, particularly after a week of poor sleep. However, maintaining a consistentContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks using melatonin supplements as a sleep aid might be putting themselves at risk for future heart problems, a new study says. Adults with insomnia who’d been using melatonin for a year or more had 90% higher odds of heart failure, researchers areContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Lousy sleep might be an early warning sign for suicide risk among teenagers, a new study says. Teenagers who didn’t get enough sleep on school nights or suffered from interrupted sleep had a significantly higher risk of suicide, researchers reported Oct. 23 inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Your beauty rest might be protecting your brain health as well, a new study says. Seniors with chronic insomnia might experience a faster decline in their memory and thinking skills as they age, researchers reported today in the journal Neurology. Chronic insomniacs hadContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Insomniacs have a much higher risk for depression if they have chronic inflammation, a new sleep lab experiment says. Seniors with insomnia were three times as likely to report symptoms of depression if they’d been dosed with a substance that promotes inflammation, accordingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Mouth taping is one of the latest health fads to swamp social media, driven by celebrity endorsements from the likes of Gwenyth Paltrow and Ashley Graham. The practice of taping your mouth shut as you sleep is meant to prevent mouth breathing, inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them. But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called dysphagia, a new study says. Dysphagia is aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Removing the tonsils and adenoids can improve the sleep of kids with mild breathing problems that disturb their slumber, a new clinical trial reports. Children with sleep problems needed to see a doctor 32% less often and had a 48% reduction in medicationContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Teens who sleep fewer than 7.7 hours are more likely to have high blood pressure, a new study suggests. Likewise, those suffering from both insomnia and a lack of sleep are five times more likely to have high blood pressure exceeding 140 systolic,Continue Reading