Recent Posts Tagged With 'sleep'

• Helping You Sleep - Eat Your Cherries!

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 02:10 in insomnia, sleep, cherries, melatonin, helping you sleep

  One does not usually think of cherries as a sleep aid. Well, surprise, they are. They have plenty of melatonin, a naturally occurring hormone that makes humans sleepy.As a matter of fact, the cherries helped with the initial recognition of dietary, e...

• Insomnia Linked to GABA Deficiency

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 00:44 in insomnia, sleep, helping you sleep, dr. john winkelman

  Researchers found gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the most common inhibitory transmitter in the brain, is reduced by nearly 30 percent in individuals who have been suffering from primary insomnia for more than six months.“GABA is reduced in the bra...

• Helping You Sleep - Acupuncture Bracelet

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 01:51 in technology, gadgets, insomnia, sleep, helping you sleep

  Or it should be more like "How the Heck Would Acupuncture Bracelet with no Needles mentioned be Helping You Sleep?"It's a wrist band with some sort of dial and it runs on a cell battery. Could it be delivering a low level electric shock in lue of the...

• Helping You Sleep - Brain Music Therapy

  Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 00:04 in insomnia, sleep, alternative migraine treatments, helping you sleep

  The brain music therapy (BMT) program starts by recording an individual's brain waves using an electroencephalogram. Key rhythms from the recording are translated by a computerized mathematical formula into musical sounds. The results are often compa...

• Helping you sleep - Napping, Now with Pictures

  Posted on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 02:52 in insomnia, sleep, neurology, napping, migraine blog, helping you sleep

  That ever-elusive pastime of the privileged few, the holly grail for the many - napping. For yours truly, as probably for a one or two of my gentle readers, it still remains a mystery. Boston Globe decided to weight in, in it's condescending, Ivy-Lea...

• Helping you sleep - Getting Rid of the Crick in the Neck

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 03:39 in insomnia, sleep, helping you sleep

  A "crick in the neck" is not medical diagnosis but most of us probably have it.Back & Neck Pain section of About.com is of an opinion that a "crick in the neck" is something people wake up with after a night of "awkward pillowing or body position...

• Sleeping in 2008 - the National Sleep Foundation Poll

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 02:52 in insomnia, sleep, migraine reseach

  The National Sleep Foundation has conducted a poll that provides us a close look into how much time we allow ourselves for sleep compared to how much time we spend on other pursuits.Here's some numbers:The average time spent in bed is 6 hours and 55 ...

• Sleeping More than 9 Hours is Apparently Bad for Your Migraines

  Posted on Monday September 8th, 2008 at 04:26 in insomnia, sleep, neurology, migraine research

  Or so claim the Researchers at the Clinic of Neurology at University Hospital Zvezdara in Belgrade.They stated that the migraine patients who slept for longer than 9 hours had more frequent migraine attacks than those who slept less.This "breaking" n...

• Helping You Sleep - Brain Reprogramming

  Posted on Saturday September 6th, 2008 at 02:29 in insomnia, sleep, brain damage, brain training, migraine hacks

  Most migraine people have sleep problems. Just goes with the territory.Yours truly is on an ongoing quest to find a way to put the over-sensitive and over-worked migraine brain to sleep - regularly and, if possible, naturally.After all, sleeping is i...