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How Does Sleep Affect Your Relationship
We are aware of the effects sleep has on our mood, cognition, and performance, but we may not realize that our relationships also depend on it. Relationships depend on decision-making, shared responsibility, even humor, and attractiveness. Couples trials have provided us with more insight in regards to the effects a lack of sleep has on
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How do you sip your Sleep Remedy?
I often get questions about the volume of water recommended on the packaging of my Sleep Remedy product. The flavoring was designed to taste the best at around 8 oz. However, we are just mixing supplements in water, and suspending them long enough to get them into the GI tract--not launching a space shuttle. I
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Tips to Mitigate the Effects of Performance and Sleep Decline Associated with Shift Work
This blog is designed primarily for First Responders, LEOs, Military, Healthcare shift workers. The most common question that I asked is; “how do I compensate for shift work”. The unfortunate answer is that you cannot, at least not completely. Two plus two will always equal four. It would be no different than saying, how do
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Staying healthy during the holidays
Message me your questions on Facebook, Twitter @DocParsley or Instagram with the #FAQFriday
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How To Know if Your Sleep Hygiene is Optimal
Probably, most everyone reading this has heard the term “sleep hygiene”, but what does it really mean? It obviously has to do with sleep, but it’s a bit nebulous as to how to do it, and if you're doing it right. Well, rest easy. By the end of this blog, you’ll be crystal clear about
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Mitigating Jet Lag
What Are Some Ways We Can Mitiate Jet Lag? Mitiagting Jet lag: If you fly a lot, have may have noticed that it screws up your sleep. The more time zones you cross, the more damage and struggle. The experience was captured in the film, Lost in Translation, where the circadian inversion of traveling to
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Don’t Sleep With Your Smart Phone
Be it on a podcast or elsewhere, you’ve likely heard me talk about where the smartphone needs to go at night. Yes, sure, you use the alarm to wake you up. That’s fine. But the phone goes in the drawer. Not in a nightstand. Don't sleep with your smartphone. In 2015, the Bank of America funded
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Why Should I Care About Sleep?
Why Should I Care About Sleep? The answer is simple. The quality of your life depends on it. I am very happy to say that I have noticed a significant uptick in the number of information people are putting out about sleep—including sleep gadgets—in the 8 years, I’ve been speaking about sleep. Many of us
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Health and Performance- MORE Sleep
What role does sleep have in promoting health and performance? Let’s consider Ironman triathletes. With the pros, it’s not uncommon to hear them brag about getting 10 to 12 hours a sleep per night. And maybe a nap in the day. “All I do is eat, sleep and train,” you hear them say. Contrast
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What You Should Know About Your Circadian Rhythm
Many people have heard of the concept that humans use the sun to adjust their biological clock. The overall driver of the biological clock is the circadian rhythm controlling SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus for you neuro geeks out there)—often called the “master clock”. But what does that really mean, what does the “master clock” really control,
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