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Mar 20, 2026 · SleepHow to Improve Your Sleep Posture
A licensed chiropractor explains the connection between body positioning during sleep and the way you feel and function throughout the day.
Nov 28, 2025 · SleepA Wake-Up Call?
Sleeplessness can be especially damaging to older adults, and recent research suggests it could even cause cognitive dysfunction. Such studies are almost enough to spoil a good night’s sleep.
Aug 29, 2025 · SleepSleep Routines With Dr. Alexandra Davidson: Creating Rest Rituals That Actually Work
Discover the ultimate sleep routine from Eleven Eleven's own nurse practitioner Dr. Alexandra Davidson, in collaboration with Rani lounge.
Aug 8, 2025 · SleepThe Powerful Free-Radical Fighting Benefits of Melatonin
Melatonin does more than just regulate your sleep cycle — it also plays an important role in fighting free radicals. Learn more.
Jul 25, 2025 · SleepWhat to do When You've Slept Badly
What to for for health and performance when you've slept poorly.
Feb 14, 2025 · SleepWhy Quality Sleep Matters — and What to Do When You’re Not Getting It
The healing power of sleep may elude us for any number of reasons — including insomnia. Learn why quality sleep is so essential and how to get more of it.
Sep 20, 2024 · SleepHow Following Ultradian, Circadian, and Infradian Rhythms Can Boost Your Health
Tune into natural rhythms to improve your energy, concentration, and sleep.
Jul 17, 2024 · SleepHealth Coach Tip - Sleep Better For Weight Loss
We are a sleep-deprived nation and it’s time to make sleep a priority. Lack of sleep not only makes you groggy and foggy – it makes you hold onto weight. Wondering why? Hormones gone wild!
Jan 24, 2024 · SleepHealth Coach Tip – How Sleep Protects The Brain
Beyond its role in rejuvenating the body and promoting overall well-being, sleep plays a crucial role in safeguarding our brains.
Apr 24, 2023 · Sleep5 Thoughts on What Happens to Your Brain When Don’t Sleep Enough
There are any number of ways to keep your brain healthy, having to do with healthy diet, movement and stress reduction. But one of the big brain savers is all about what you do at night, and by that we mean sleep. It is truly amazing, refreshing, restorative stuff and if you’re not getting enough or just not doing it very well, the consequences can be more serious than you might think. Sure, an under-slept brain won’t be able to perform particularly well on the team Zoom call or, for that matter, doing any kind of activity that rises above the routine, but that’s just the beginning of the problems.
Mar 27, 2023 · SleepSleep Tech that Actually Helps Upgrade Your Nightly Zzzzzzzs
The core good-sleep habits that I’ve advocated for long before our lives were upended, are now even more important ---but the good news is you’ve now got a new sleep ally in your corner – in the form of an array of sleep tracking devices that have the potential to change the rules of the sleep game in your favor. Where to start? Here’s my in-a-nutshell guide to the ‘sleep tech’ that’s ‘disrupting’ sleep in a good way – and why you should take advantage:
Jan 2, 2023 · Sleep9 Ways Your Sleep Position Can Help – or Harm – Your Health
With sleep taking up roughly a third of each day, it’s important to do it well. As you probably know first-hand, sleeping well can be easier said than done. Even in the best of times, sound sleep can be a challenge and the past few years have only added to it. While there are almost countless ways for a good night’s rest to be interrupted, perhaps one of the most overlooked is sleep position. If your body’s not in a comfortable, nicely aligned position, not only may you struggle to get your 40 winks, you may find other aspects of your health impacted as well.
Nov 28, 2022 · Sleep9 Ways to Use Melatonin Safely for Sleep
Increasingly, people are becoming more aware of the dangerous downsides of prescription sleep meds and switching to non-pharmaceutical alternatives. Enter melatonin supplement, which can have a place in your good-sleep program, that is, if you understand the pros and cons, what it can and can’t do. For many melatonin new-comers there’s a temptation to think of it as a sleep panacea or a cure-all, that’s it’s OK to pop a pill every night without giving it a second thought. Not so. Here’s how to use it wisely.
Oct 17, 2022 · SleepTo Sleep Better Tonight, Avoid These 10 Sleep Mistakes
Contrary to what you may think, poor sleep is not a fact of life, but is, to a large extent, a by-product of how you live it. So, to reclaim those good sleep nights you’ve been dreaming of, you’ll likely need to make some adjustments, review the rhythms and habits your days and approach sleep more like a project that needs some attention, and less like something that just happens (or doesn’t). To take back your nights, here are 10 sleep stealers to ditch, so you can rise refreshed.
Sep 19, 2022 · Sleep4 Ways EMF’s Could Be Disrupting Your Sleep – and 15 Tips To Fix It
While big stressors in our lives like work, family, finances, responsibilities, etc., are serious ones, another one that’s often overlooked is 24/7 exposure to electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) – and their disruptive impact on your sleep. The good news is you can purge plenty of them from your days, and set yourself up for good sleep at night.
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The Fundamental Role of Sleep on Cognition and Well-being
An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on the fundamental role of sleep on our cognition and overall well-being. Sleep enriches our ability to focus, learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. Learn about how critical sleep is across all life stages.
May 9, 2022 · Sleep3 Ways To Upgrade Your Day To Sleep Well At Night
Restful, restorative, sometimes elusive sleep. Why is it that something that is so natural, so essential and necessary for good health can become so hard to do well? Has modern life has taught us now not to sleep? In a word, yes. It’s that perfect storm of a few less-than-stellar habits which, when combined, over time, wind up teaching your body how not to sleep. The good news however is that we can re-learn the art of sleep well at night by taking steps during the daylight hours to set the stage for sleep success at night. Here’s what you need to know and do to master the art:
Feb 14, 2022 · Sleep14 Strategies for Superior Sleep, Starting Tonight!
More than just an annoyance, poor sleep is a major health underminer. Not taking sleep seriously impacts all aspects of your day-to-day life: how well you learn and process information, how clearly you think, how well you fend off illness, how well you age. And let’s not forget: your mood, your weight and yes, even your sex drive. Crappy sleep is a body bummer, and if you make a habit of it, you’re increasing your risk for exactly the kinds of health destroyers we’re all trying to avoid, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease, heart attack/ failure, stroke, diabetes, depression, anxiety, and obesity. Sleep isn’t something to be toyed with – it’s serious business, and the time to clean up your sleep act is now.
Feb 7, 2022 · Sleep6 Ways to Stress Less, Sleep Better and Tame Pain with Magical Magnesium
By now, you should appreciate that a whole foods diet, plenty of daily movement, restorative sleep, relaxation and stress reduction come together to ensure your body will function well for a long, long time. What else to add to your good health stew? Magnesium. Its long list of beneficial effects makes this multi-tasking miracle mineral one of my favorite recommendations.
Jan 21, 2022 · SleepEmbrace Your Chronotype
Even though we all have an innate 24-hour rhythm, not all of our rhythms are the same. We all have a sleep chronotype – choosing a sleep-wake schedule that takes your chronotype into account will help you arrive at a rhythm that supports when you’re naturally inclined to sleep, wake up, and perform.
Apr 12, 2021 · SleepBetter Rhythms for Better Sleep
The biological laws that govern sleep are more potent than social obligations and work responsibilities, as well as the pharmaceuticals created to override them (we’re looking at you, Ambien). They were written back when our ancestors were living in caves and huts, waking with the sun, eating the plants provided by nature, and resting as darkness fell. Even if our lifestyles are quite different today, our DNA hasn’t changed all that much.
Apr 9, 2021 · SleepA Book Before Bed: Better Sleep, Better You
The impetus for writing an entire book about getting better sleep is simple: sleep is fundamental to health and happiness. Rather than one-off sleep hacks or quick, easy fixes, getting better sleep requires deeper, more integrated approaches.
Apr 2, 2021 · SleepHow to Stop Insomnia
Explore the various root causes of insomnia and get expert-sourced treatments for overcoming it.
Mar 1, 2021 · Sleep8 Key Times to Prepare Your Mind and Body to Sleep Like a Baby
Sleep – and doing it well – has become a huge issue, even for those who never had much trouble with it, pre-pandemic. On the bright side, the new, slowed-down routine has given the sleep-deprived time to focus on straightening out their sleep issues. By the time we get to the other side of the pandemic, those new, good sleep habits will be firmly entrenched.