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Night owls can retrain their body clocks to improve mental wellbeing and performance, a simple tweak to sleeping patterns may lead to significant improvements in wake/sleep timings, performance in mornings, better eating habits, and a decrease in stress and depression, as published in Sleep Medicine. Over a 3 week period a team of international researchers …
Difficulty falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much, may associate with cardiovascular and metabolic problems. A number of previous studies have demonstrated associations between sleep duration and obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mortality. As well, separate research has suggested that sleep disorders increase the risk for cardiometabolic disease. Michael A. Grandner, from the University …