Melantonin which is produced in the brain of pineal gland has important role in sleep cycle regulation. However, they production can be decrease with age or stop because of some diseases and medications. Previous study has found that the drugs of beta-blocker used for hypertensive patients significantly reduced the production of melantonin. Since, ...

Poor sleep quality is not only lowering energy levels in the next day or may reduce immune system, but also had negative effects to diabetic patients. According to new findings that reported in Diabetes Care for May issue, for those people with type 2 diabetes, the glucose levels and insulin resistance ...

Several studies has suggested that sleep deprivation increase of the risk of weight gain. Now, new small study, adding more evidence that the relationship between sleep loss and obesity has strong indicator. According to the European researchers, sleep deprivation affect not only increasing hunger, but also reduce the metabolism functions ...

People who had unusual amount of sleep or those with sleep deprivation both categorized in chronic or acute with their symptoms like feeling not enough of sleep, tired, stress, anxiety, headaches, irritability, and other symptoms related to the effects of sleep deprivation to physical conditions, such as weight gain, blood ...

Difficulty in falling asleep that makes lack of sleep or insomnia which were had the signs and symptoms likes short period of sleep, awakening in most of time of the night, wake up too soon, feeling tired, hard to focus, and feeling likes having less sleep, can be reduced by ...

Sleep problem in children is increased today. So many effects of less sleep duration in children influence their life. What happen if children don't get enough sleep? Why do children need sleep and rest? and how many hours of sleep do children need? As a parent, those answers regarding to the questions are ...

Adults with sleep problems, insomnia, and particularly loud snoring should be aware that those symptoms associated with metabolic syndrome and can leads to cardiovascular risk in future. According to new findings that published on December 1, 2010 in Sleep, loud snoring was linked to more than twice the risk of the ...

Complaining of sleep problem among hemodialysis patients are high. This condition included restless leg syndrome to insomnia that affect the quality of life for patients negatively. According to the researchers from the Netherlands, among kidney dialysis patients who commonly reported sleep problems, they found a lack of natural nocturnal rise in ...

Maternal who thinks that by giving their infant with formula feeding can improve their sleep should kick that suggestion. Recent study regarding to this said that both breast-feeding and formula feeding may not affect mothers' sleep. The findings said that the mother do not get less or worse sleep with both ...

In the current cross-sectional survey, again, alcohol use for sleep really linked to hazardous than moderate drinking. The reason for initiated the survey, because hazardous and harmful drinking and sleep problem are common, but their relationship among patients seen in primary care have not been examined. The current survey results come from ...

Compared with smoking, obesity, diabetes, and hypertension as risk factors of coronary artery disease (CAD), the researchers found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) had more stronger risk factor of CAD than other risk factors, and even more prevalent in the coronary artery disease (CAD) population than has been previously reported. Moreover, ...

Melatonin is a hormone naturally produced by the body to restore your biological sleep clock. The body only produce melatonin in dark condition. Research shows that this hormone helps people sleep better and reduce the amount of a sudden wake up at night. People with low levels of melatonin in the body more ...

The men who had insomnia should be carefully caused it could increased the risk of death by 4-fold compared those had normal sleep (at least 6 hours per night). Moreover, when the insomnia patients with underlying diabetes or with high blood pressure. Based on current 14-year study results that published in September ...

Based on recent study, average new moms got just over 7 hours of sleep per night during their babies' first four months. Although this is generally recommended for adults, however, in case with new moms, the study also found that new moms' sleep also frequently disrupted (with the women typically ...

The performance of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) appear reduce on verbal episodic memory tasks compared with controls, while visual episodic semantic and working memory remained intact. Those investigation reported in March 18th in the American Journal ...

Short sleep duration become common among U.S. young adults. From this habits however, they will have a risk of unhealthy weight. Recent study showed that poor of sleep duration among young adults increase the risk ...

Structure in the brain contains clear body fluid which consist with 4 cerebral ventricles (left and right lateral ventricles, third ventricle, and fourth ventricle). Some diseases related to ventricular system such as hydricephalus, ventriculitis and meningnitis. Other study also founded there is connection between enlarge the size of ventricles with schizophrenia. Now, from ...

Recently, Valerian is popular herbs as sleep aid properties. From the extract of this plant (especially on the root), it has active compound that effects inducing sedation and anti-anxiety agent. Based on the active compound inside valerian extract and proven by pharmacology (such ...

Melatonin may produced by animal or human and plants. As their famous treatment as sleep aid, often called 'darkness hormone'. Melatonin not only impact to sleep time but also have wide benefits from several health risk such as alzheimer's disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, cardiovascular risk factor, depression, and some other risk of ...

As our previous posting that less sleep for children may lead to depression and suicidal thinking, another research also found that less of children sleep may develop Diabetes caused by higher in blood sugar. Dr. Zhijie Yu from Chinese Academy of Science ...

The characteristic of insomnia level given based on the period when they appear and not duration of sleep. A. When insomnia happen during first week or few weeks, this is categorized Transient or Short-Term Insomnia. Most of this case influenced by; - Stress This stress including ...

Late sleep for adolescent more likely to make them easy for depression and possible for suicidal thinking. How come? There are lot of side effects due to lack of sleep duration such as fatigue, bladder problem, muscle spasms, energy level both ...

Have you got unpleasing feelings like creeping, crawling, pulling, itching, tingling, burning, aching, or electric shock? If you have such feeling and also sometime occur in the arms, that mean you strong possible had Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). This disorder causing ...

Recent study from Karolinska Institute showed that obese man who had sleep apnea problem, the weight loss program was good treatment to relief from severe sleep apnea. One of the researchers, Kari Johansson said, "Our finding suggest that weight loss may be an effective treatment strategy for sleep apnea in obese ...

Sleep apnea described when someone involuntarily does not breath during sleep. It can be either central or obstructive. Central apnea, which is less common, is when the brain forgets to tell the body to breath. Obstructive apnea occurs when the muscles or soft tissue in the throat ...

Snoring is a sleep problem that could be experienced by men and women. Although it was common, it still snoring disturbing, especially on married couples. Snoring during sleep is sometimes considered trivial, simply because of fatigue alone. In fact, habitual snoring indicate a problem in terms of health. In terms of its frequency, ...

Sleep is an important part of human activity. This activity aims to restore physical and mental condition after all organs and systems in the body work all day. The phrase of 'physical and mental restoration' seems simple. But behind it, it is a complex matters inside the body's system. From immunity to ...