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How to Choose the Right Bed Sheets and Mattress

How to Choose the Right Bed Sheets and Mattress

Buying a new mattress or replacing old ones is often quite the task. Identifying the right mattress goes a long way in ensuring your body rests correctly. A wrong mattress that doesn’t suit your body can make it difficult to fall asleep, affect sleep patterns or can cause back or neck pain. To avoid this, it is essential to understand what your body needs. But the job isn’t done with just choosing the right mattress. Buying the best sheets can add...

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Sleep and Insomnia

Sleep and Insomnia: Two Sides of the Same Coin

If you are having regular sleepless nights or irregular sleep, you are probably wondering if you have insomnia. This article will help you understand the science behind insomnia and the actions one can take to sleep better at night. What is insomnia? Insomnia is a sleeping disorder that makes it difficult to fall asleep or to stay asleep the whole night. Insomnia occurs over a sustained period of time. Have you tried developing a sleep schedule  before bedtime and in the morning...

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Can CBD Actually Help You Sleep Better

Can CBD Actually Help You Sleep Better?

The use of the cannabis plant for health benefits has been a long-debated and criticized topic all over the world. With the onset of legalization of the sale and distribution of medical marijuana in many parts of the world, researchers are discovering the effects it has over the body and the mind. Cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) are the two main components of the cannabis plant. Cannabidiol also knows as CBD does not cause or induce a high in people, unlike...

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Why Do We Sleep

Why Do We Need Sleep?

A good night’s sleep gives you the rest you need, leaving you more productive and creative for the next day. While the mind shuts down when you hit the sack, the brain does not disconnect from the environment. There is a lot of processing and restoring happening every night to ensure your immunity is built and memories are saved. However, without sleep, the body and mind get affected. Why humans need to sleep every night or what exactly happens in the...

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6 Ways to Get Yourself out of Bed Quickly

Does a worse sound exist than that of your alarm going off at 6AM (early bird) on a Monday morning? I know, just the thought of it makes you cringe. And we all know what happens next; snooze after snooze until you finally work up the courage to force yourself out of bed. Getting out of bed is one of the most difficult tasks we face in our daily routine. The counterintuitiveness of it all is what makes it so...

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Crazy palces to sleep

5 Crazy Places People Have Tried To Sleep

Have you ever been so tired you just couldn’t keep your eyes open and just drifted into a deep, peaceful sleep right there on the spot? Who am I kidding, we’ve all been there! Whether it be caused by a heavy workload, the stress of a school year or the result of uncomfortable bed sheets (although we have a fix for that), the burden of our everyday lives can leave us feeling sleep deprived, and as a result can impact...

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