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Sleep, circadian rhythms and being human.
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A compassionate approach to poor sleep during the perimenopause
Up to 60% of women in the menopausal transition sleep poorly. On what a compassionate attitude towards that struggle can change.
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From Climate Change to City Lights: How Environmental Factors Affect Your Sleep
How well do you sleep?Chances are, you’ve experienced poor sleep — and not just once. That’s because sleep is influenced by a complex web of factors, from personal stress to environmental factors…
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Sleep Equity for Global Health – World Sleep Day 2024
What the World Sleep Day 2024 theme actually means, taken slogan by slogan: equal opportunity to healthy sleep, and the resources and knowledge that requires.
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Your Future Self of Sleep
Why the health costs of too little sleep are so easy to ignore — the damage accrues to a future self that feels abstract now.
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Social Jet lag – when social time wreaks havoc with your inner time
The three clocks we live by — inner, solar and social — and what happens to the body when the social one pulls against the other two.
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Sleep Problems in Transgender People
How minority stress affects the sleep of transgender people, and why sleep is both shaped by and shapes our experience of being around others.
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Does daytime napping protect the brain?
A recent study links regular napping to slower decline in brain volume. Also: why some people can nap and others genetically cannot.
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What if you could sleep yourself kind?
Kindness needs a settled nervous system, and sleep helps provide one. On the link between rest and the capacity to be kind.