The Smart Sleep Alarm Is The Holy Grail Of Health Tracking
No, I kid you not. There’s no Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film nor eloquent monologues about swallows, and not even a reference to hose-riding coconut mimicry. I’ve truly found the Holy Grail of health tracking and will share it with you today. Behold as the answer is… the smart sleep alarm! If you ask anyone I know, they’ll probably share how I reverently praise smart sleep alarms. By the end of this article, you will understand why this is the case.
Don’t count sheep, your health depends on it
When I was a baby, my parents used to sing me lullabies to lull me off to sleep. As for adults, peopl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 6, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers sleep digital health sensors sleep sensor digital health technologies smart alarm Source Type: blogs
Loneliness Erodes Your Mental Health: How You Can Get Past This Toxic Emotion
“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” – Martha Beck
Loneliness is one of the most miserable feelings to experience. Being alone, however, doesn’t necessarily mean a person is lonely. They may be, although they may be quite deliberate in wanting to be alone for a time, and have no negative affects from such solitude. It’s the protractedness and sense of isolation and desperation that can set in that seems to push loneliness to extremes, even potentially resulting in worsening mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety. Yet, for those who are suffering with loneliness a...
Source: World of Psychology - February 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Relationships Self-Help Loneliness Source Type: blogs
How to Improve Your Health on a Budget
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Are you ready to make a lifestyle change but you’re worried
about breaking the bank while trying to make healthier changes? The good news
is that you don’t have to worry about spending a ton of money to become
healthier, but rather make small lifestyle
changes that will make a big impact on your overall health. Here are a few
ways you can improve your health on a budget.
#1 Stop Eating Out
Stop eating out. Not...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured health and fitness money and finance budget health tips self improvement Source Type: blogs
Menopause and insomnia: Could a low-GI diet help?
Sleep disturbances such as insomnia are extremely common, especially in women after menopause. According to data from the National Institutes of Health, sleep disturbance varies from 16% to 42% before menopause, from 39% to 47% during perimenopause, and from 35% to 60% after menopause.
Insomnia is a serious medical problem defined by frequent difficulty falling or staying asleep that impacts a person’s life in a negative way. Hormone changes around menopause can lead to sleep problems for many reasons, including changing sleep requirements, increased irritability, and hot flashes.
What menopausal women eat could have an ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Fatigue Food as medicine Healthy Eating Menopause Nutrition Sleep Source Type: blogs
How to Beat Your Social Anxiety in 2020
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Bidding
farewell to the past year and welcoming the next can be incredibly exciting and
promising. If the thought of attending a New Year's Eve bash leaves you with
sweaty palms and heart palpitations, however, you're not alone. About 15 million people
in America,
including myself, struggle with social anxiety. This disorder can make the new
year an extremely stressful event.
Luckily,
if you've resolved to bea...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jennifer Landis Tags: featured psychology self confidence self improvement anxiety pickthebrain social anxiety Source Type: blogs
Living with Crohn ’s disease: Recognizing and managing flares
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory condition that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract. Together with ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s is one of the two main types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohn’s affects approximately 500,000 Americans and is a chronic, lifelong condition that typically alternates between periods of relatively stable or absent symptoms (remission) and periods of symptom flare-ups that can last for days, weeks, or even months.
The goal of treatment is to induce remission and then to maximize the chance that patients stay in remission. However, almost everyone with Crohn’s diseas...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Garber, MD Tags: Digestive Disorders Health Source Type: blogs
10 Super Foods to Boost Your Daily Productivity and Health
Conclusion:
These ten super-foods to boost your daily productivity and live your day to its full potential. So, whenever you feel taking a break from work, grab one of these superfoods to get back to work and appreciate the boost they give you. Have a great day.
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laura Edward Tags: featured health and fitness productivity tips food for brain food for the mind foods that make your smarter productive productive people Source Type: blogs
What Are Sleeping Pill Side Effects?
Insomnia can be a disruptive condition that affects your entire life. When you aren’t able to sleep at night, it can negatively impact issues in almost every area of your life and well-being. If you are taking sleeping pills or are thinking about starting to take sleeping pills, make sure you know as much as possible about all the sleeping pill side effects.
What Are Sleeping Pills and How Do They Work?
Sleeping pills are used to treat insomnia. According to the National Sleep Foundation, insomnia is described as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, even when a person has the chance to do so. People with insomni...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - November 15, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Sleep healthy sleep insomnia sleep aids sleep and chronobiology laboratory sleep deprivation sleep disorder treatment sleep disorders sleep duration sleep habits sleeping sleeping pills sleeplessness Source Type: blogs
6 Lesser-Known Ways to Beat Burnout
Lately, you’ve been feeling fatigued and frustrated. Emotionally and physically. You’re wondering where the heck your energy and motivation went.
Work feels like one big slog. You feel like you can’t meet the demands and deadlines. In fact, you dread even walking through the office doors. When you do get home, all you want to do is sit on the couch and veg out.
In other words, you’re likely burned out.
And you’re certainly not alone. A 2018 Gallup study of 7,500 full-time employees found that 23 percent experienced burnout very often or always, and 44 percent experienced it sometimes. According to a 2018 review, ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Burnout hustle overworked Productivity Workaholic Source Type: blogs
Stopping the vicious cycle of rebound headaches
Rebound headaches, also known as medication overuse headaches, are caused by the frequent or excessive use of pain-relieving and/or antimigraine drugs to treat headache attacks that are already in progress. (Note that these are not the same as oral prophylactic or preventive medicines, which should be taken daily.) In other words, the same medications that initially relieve headache pain can themselves trigger subsequent headaches if they are used too often. Medication overuse headaches can be disabling, forcing people with this condition to take sick leave and to be less productive at work and home.
To be diagnosed with m...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sait Ashina, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Headache Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Psychiatric Medications: Separating Fact From Fiction
Psychiatric medications are the religion and politics of the mental health advocacy world — don’t bring them up unless you want a fight to break out. Luckily, here at Not Crazy, we don’t shy away from confrontation.
In this episode, we cover the good, the bad, and the ugly surrounding medications. Like whether or not you should take them. We tackle side effects like feeling numb and sexual dysfunction and share our personal histories with medication therapy. Listen now!
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Source: World of Psychology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Antidepressant Antipsychotic General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Psychology Research Sexuality Stimulants Treatment Source Type: blogs
HUMM Releases First Affordable Patch for Improving Working Memory: Exclusive Interview
We previously interviewed Humm, a San Francisco-based neuroscience company, when they had first released their Edge headset – an electrical stimulation device that helped users by boosting their working memory. Humm is focused on helping people continue to learn and grow throughout their lives. The idea behind their innovations is that through stimulation of the prefrontal cortex—a crucial area of the brain for decision making and learning—people’s ability to process and store information will be improved. Humm uses a safe and proven method of electrical stimulation called tACS (transcranial alternating current sti...
Source: Medgadget - October 18, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Neurology Psychiatry Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
If you have migraines, put down your coffee and read this
During medical school, a neurologist taught me that the number one cause of headaches in the US was coffee.
That was news to me! But it made more sense when he clarified that he meant lack of coffee. His point was that for people who regularly drink coffee, missing an early morning cup, or even just having your first cup later than usual, can trigger a caffeine withdrawal headache. And considering how many daily coffee drinkers there are (an estimated 158 million in the US alone), it’s likely that coffee withdrawal is among the most common causes of headaches.
Later in my neurology rotation, I learned that caffeine is a ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Headache Health Source Type: blogs
8 Nootropics to Stimulate Your Brain This Fall
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Nootropics is a term coined by Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea
to describe a class of drugs, supplements, and other synthetic and naturally
occurring compounds that improve cognitive function in our brains. They’re
often called “smart drugs,” as they can help us think faster and more
efficiently.
Although used by pretty much everyone, these nootropic supplements are especially
popular among younger and olde...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nadav Dakner Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement nootropics pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
How to Reclaim Your Time and Put Breathing Room Back in Your Life
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
An unalterable fact of life is that there are only 24 hours in a day. Despite wishing time could be extended, go slower or faster, or be reversed, the physics involved in the construct of time do not allow such self-driven navigation. Whether you’re overwhelmed at work, home, school or elsewhere, trying to fit too many tasks and to-dos in an already full schedule, or so dismayed at your lack of progress that you want to give up, you can reclaim more time and put breathing room back in your life. Here’s ho...
Source: World of Psychology - August 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Habits Happiness Self-Help Organization Productivity Source Type: blogs
