Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “sleep”
Christmas is finished and you’re now in the recovery phase. Hopefully you had a great time, though right now you’re probably just: I call this the recovery phase of Christmas simply because it’s normal to feel like this after all that fun so there is no point in beating ourselves up about it. Good health is just about restoring balance …
Workouts are how you get strong right? Wrong!!! Yep, despite all the emphasis on lifting weights, running and all manner of ways to push your body not one of these things actually makes you stronger.
I’m listening to Fitter Food Radio episode 11 with Jo Gamble on Embracing Nutrition. It is quite fascinating. Focusing on Jo Gamble explaining the value of functional medicine for health. Jo is a nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner who specialises in alternative treatment for cancer. I’m getting to know the show so I can only comment on this episode. I’m …
Why animals sleep remains one of the enduring mysteries of biology, but new research suggests the primary reason might be to allow cerebrospinal fluid to wash all the gunk out from between your brain cells. Read more The researchers interpretation is that this is literally a cleaning process after a busy day. I would wonder if it’s also a restocking …
If we don’t sleep we simply don’t work properly. So what does it do for us, how much do we need, what types are there and many other questions are answered.
following on with the theme that sleep is far more important than many of us realise. Here’s an analysis of things we can do better asleep than when we’re awake. Essentially there seem to be three main areas that we do better asleep: Lets summarise each area: Forming accurate memories Most neuroscientists agree that sleep is when we organize memories …
I’m excited to have just discovered Neural Darwinism through an interview with Gerald Edelman on all in the mind. The idea that our brain constantly adapts to our environment using the same evolutionary principles described by Darwin is what I’ve been coming to believe. It’s clear that we create and remove connections every day during sleep and that our brains are constantly evolving from the …
Deep stuff eh. Again I’m just trying to make the point that balance is everything. Sleep is a big part of life and it needs to be. Western culture doesn’t really value sleep that much. There are so many things to do with your time. Sleep is so often considered a waste of it. So could the amount of sleep …
I’ve felt for quite a while now that the arrival of the internet will eventually lead to a fundamental revolution in how we work. I was reminded by the article Innovation:Online army turns the tide on automation of Amazon Mechanical Turk, an example of how this might play out. At the same time I also feel that this could lead to …
So I sprained my ankle quite badly way back on August 10th this year. I’ve sprained my ankles a ton of times before and recovered fine so I know the rehab drill. A bunch of years had passed since my last sprain so I thought I’d check out how the advice had improved. Unfortunately it hadn’t improved much at all. …
This is a fascinating animation explaining the role of natural killer cells which are a crucial part of our immune system. What I notice from listening to it is the explanation of their role in fighting cancer. Specifically that most cancer creating cells are caught and neutralised within 24 hours by these killer cells. It then seems very straightforward to …
I believe strongly in the need for balance between work rest and play. I just heard about a study that has linked too much or too little sleep to a chance of an early death. Thought I’d log it hear as a reference I want to build on in time. It’s not the first piece of research to show this …
It occurred to me recently how to express my experience of how I learn and how our brains are capable of providing lightning fast access to so much of the info we hold in our heads. I think the process might be similar to the methods used in hardware and software mainly because I think they evolved for the same …
I’ve covered this topic before but got a little inspiration so thought i’d write it down. Haven’t read the original post so not sure if I’m repeating myself. The essence of my thoughts is around the human need for fat’s, particularly saturated fats. The media and health professionals like to bemoan fat intake but I’m not entirely convinced it’s all …
I thing that struck me is the idea that training the body through activity may not just train our physical systems but could also train our recovery systems by creating situations where constant intense repair is required. This could have an impact on our overall health because our ability to repair our bodies would relate to our ability to recover …
We spend so much time worrying if our bodies get enough nutrition. We’re told that key nutrients are required daily. If you accept that other animals have similar physiology to us and therefore similar daily needs for nutrients then how can we explain hibernation. In this article I wonder what would make hibernation possible, whether it’s possible that we hibernated …
Okay, now I think it’s time to talk about an idea I’ve been nurturing for a little while. The idea that we as a society don’t really know enough about how our minds and bodies recover their strength and possible links this could have to many problems we have in life. Quite a broad topic isn’t it. Well it’s really …
My experience of people talking about health is that you can either be happy or healthy. Pick one. My view is that you can have both. You are also generally told that the modern way is bad. The attitude is ‘don’t live in the present, live in the past. It’s much better for you.’ This advice frustrates me because it’s …
Any one who suffers from mouth ulcers knows that trhey are literally a pain. So I thought I’d add my two cents about how I feel I’ve conquered them. I get lots of ulcers. Or atleast I used to. I’ve got one now but I haven’t had one for a long time, maybe christmas was the last time. Yet I …
It’s just a thought. I have an inkling that lack of sleep could be a factor in these illnesses and I think I can pull together some of the things I’ve learnt to make a case for it. Let’s see how I go. It’s well documented and understood that we need to sleep to allow our bodies to repair. For …