Sleep is one of the great mysteries of life. Like gravity or the quantum field, we still don't understand exactly why we sleep—although we are learning more about it every day. We do know, however, that good sleep is one of the cornerstones of health. Six to eight hours per night seems to be the optimal amount of sleep for most adults, and too much or too little can have adverse effects on your health. Sleep deprivation is such a chronic condition these days that you might not even realize you suffer from it. Science has now established that a sleep deficit can have serious, far reaching effects on your health. For example, interrupted or impaired sleep can: When your circadian rhythms are disrupted, your body produces less melatonin (a hormone AND an antioxidant) and has less ability to fight cancer, since melatonin helps suppress free radicals that can lead to cancer. This is why tumors grow faster when you sleep poorly. Impaired sleep can also increase stress-related disorders, including:
Sleep deprivation prematurely ages you by interfering with your growth hormone production, normally released by your pituitary gland during deep sleep (and during certain types of exercise, such as Peak Fitness Technique). Growth hormone helps you look and feel younger. One study has even shown that people with chronic insomnia have a three times greater risk of dying from any cause. Lost sleep is lost forever, and persistent lack of sleep has a cumulative effect when it comes to disrupting your health. Poor sleep can make your life miserable, as most of you probably know. The good news is, there are many natural techniques you can learn to restore your "sleep health." Whether you have difficulty falling asleep, waking up too often, or feeling inadequately rested when you wake up in the morning—or maybe you simply want to improve the quality of your sleep—you are bound to find some relief from my tips and tricks below. Sold by Live and Sleep and Fulfilled by Amazon.
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Slept on it for a month - comfortable and recommended. See and discover other items: full upholstered bed, full bed furniture sets, full beds in upholstered, white platform full bed, full bedroom furniture set, double bed setSnuggling up with a loved one at night? Sharing that bed is likely affecting your quality of sleep—for better or for worse. Of the 61 percent of Americans who share a bed, many report being somehow disturbed by their partner during the night. Sure, spooning’s great, but is it really worth it?There are plenty of reasons so many couples have trouble sharing the sheets. Get two people in one bedroom and chances are, they’ll have different sleep/wake patterns—a fancy term for being either a morning person or a night person. But sharing sleep space with someone on a different schedule isn’t just about being startled awake by a banging refrigerator door at 4 a.m. In one study, spouses who had opposite sleep/wake patterns reported more relationship issues, including less frequent sex, less time talking, and more conflict in general.
More problems can start once bed partners are finally asleep. If one partner has a problem such as snoring or sleep apnea (a condition when breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep), it’s a good chance his/her bedmate will be disturbed. One study found that when snorers’ symptoms were treated, their partners’ sleep efficiency (i.e. how much they’re actually sleeping and not just lying in bed) increased by 13 percent—even if the partner had gotten used to the snoring over time .More often than not, men are responsible for disturbing their partners’ sleep. (It’s worth noting that most research on couples’ sleep habits has been conducted on opposite-sex couples, so it’s unclear how these findings apply to same-sex partners.) Not only do men snore more than women, but they also tend to be rowdier in bed . In two different studies, both of which used a device called an actigraph to measure wrist movement, women were more frequently disrupted by their partners’ movements than men were .
Sounds like a recipe for separate beds like Lucy and Ricky had, right? In both studies mentioned above, women reported sleeping better with their partner than without, regardless of what the actigraphs said about their sleep quality. And strangely enough, another snoring study found that when female partners of men who snored slept separately, there was still no difference in the females’ sleep efficiency .The women’s preference for sleeping with their disruptive partners suggests there are plenty of positives to sharing a bed that could override the negatives. One possibility is the sense of security that can come from being snuggled up next to someone. Recent research suggests that feeling of bedtime security leads to a decrease in the stress hormone cortisol and an increase in the so-called love hormone oxytocin, which is also released during orgasm. Honking nasal passages and poking elbows can’t cancel that out! Couples who share a bed also report that bedtime is an important time to communicate and reconnect at the end of the day.
When two people have demanding jobs and busy lives, those moments at the end of the day might be the only time they have together to catch up and make decisions, so sharing a bed can really benefit the relationship.So what can two partners do if they’re bad bed buddies? Start off with at least a queen-size mattress, and go bigger if one partner is a sprawler. Couples with different body temperatures can also try separate blankets. And if one partner moves a lot more than the other, go for memory foam or a mattress that allows each person to adjust the firmness of their side individually.But what about partners that have different body clocks—or different work schedules that mean they have to go to sleep and wake at very different times? Try to still have a bedtime conversation when the first partner goes to bed. Then the night owl can leave the room and come back when it’s time for him/her to hit the hay. (Just be careful about leaving on too many lamps, since exposure to light around bedtime can mess up our sleep quality.)