Contrary to what you might believe, negative dreams are more common than the sweet ones wished upon us before slumber, yet most of us don’t remember a large portion of our bad dreams because we sleep through them. We spend about a third of our lives sleeping and a good ...
Have you ever wondered, how lack of sleep can affect your mental health? Insomnia is a common issue affecting roughly 33% of the world’s population, according to recent research. The consequences of a bad night’s sleep, unfortunately, go well beyond feeling grumpy or foggy the next day. Your sleeping habits ...
Ankylosing spondylitis can affect the way your brain works. It can cause problems with thinking, remembering, and concentrating. The effect can worsen over time and prevent you from taking care of yourself. This article describes how the disease impacts your brain, how it can affect the way your brain functions, ...
Overall, more than half of the study participants reported changes in menstrual cycle length, period duration, menstrual flow or increased spotting, irregularities that could have economic and health consequences for women, say the researchers. "Early in the pandemic, it would come up anecdotally in conversations with girlfriends and other women ...
Picture Source: Hernan Pauccara/Pexels A recent Cleveland Clinic survey indicated that 41 percent of Americans have experienced at least one heart-related issue since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most common symptoms cited by the survey of 1,000 American adults included shortness of breath (18 percent), dizziness (15 percent), increased blood pressure (15 ...
We breathe constantly throughout our days with minimal attention. However, there’s a big difference between shallow breathing and deep breathing that can help you during times of distress. Often, in moments of anxiety, we breathe from our chest. Chest breathing is typically shallow breathing. However, when our bodies are tense ...
Investigators, led by Moore, performed a retrospective analysis of more than 41,000 people from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, or NHANES, collected between 1988-2019. That database includes baseline biological measures of participants body mass index, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, hemoglobin A1C (higher levels indicate ...
