Non-REM sleep helps regenerate skin, bone, muscle, mood, and blood sugar, provides energy, and detoxifies, according to ...

According to Dr Thomas Paloschi, sleep works like a medicine to detox the body and repair it. Losing sleep thus actively harms one's health.

For many years, the idea that “sleeping on it” would provide an individual with some time in which their subconscious mind would work through a problem or problems has generally been accepted as ...

Ana Fernández-Arcos, ​​42, is a neurologist specializing in sleep medicine and a researcher at the Pasqual Maragall ...

There are tell-tale signs when you don’t get enough REM sleep. It’s the fourth stage of sleep and it’s crucial for processing your daily experiences and banking shorter and longer-term memories. If ...

REM, also known as Rapid Eye Movement is where most dreaming occurs, brain activity increases, and the body becomes ...

One study suggests that taking longer to reach the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep is associated with biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease. The delay in getting to REM might be useful in ...

If you’ve ever felt tired after a full night’s sleep, you likely didn’t get enough deep sleep. This stage of sleep is considered to be the most restful, so getting enough of it is key for your overall ...

Rather than promoting better quality sleep, pink noise and other ambient noises may harm sleep quality more generally.