If you live to be 90 years old you’ll sleep for about 32 years of your life. “What that 32 years is telling us is that sleep, at some level, is important, and yet for most of us, we don’t give sleep a ...

Sleep, it’s one of the easiest things in the world. Climb into bed, fall asleep, wake up after eight hours feeling tickety boo. Simples. You would think. According to recent research by Silentnight ...

When it comes to brain health and strengthening memories, a good night’s rest is essential. New research highlights how important slumber is for older adults, finding that enhancing or maintaining ...

Poor sleep has significant short and long-term effects on how your brain functions. Here's how to know when your brain is asking for more sleep. Taylor Leamey Former Senior Writer Taylor Leamey wrote ...

Getting enough sleep is an important part of a person’s overall health. Poor sleep is a risk factor for cognitive issues such as memory loss. Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have ...

It might be worth working a little bit harder to get that much-desired, but often elusive, good night's sleep. Deep sleep clears the mind of waste just as a "dishwasher" cleans dirty plates and ...

Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

Sleep is so important to overall health and wellness. But along with getting enough sleep, it's also important to get good quality sleep. How much sleep you need depends on different factors, but ...

Omega Chen purchased a Garmin watch to track his heart rate and other metrics when he exercised, but it also measured things like his resting heart rate and “sleep score” every day and night. Yet no ...

Need another reason to prioritize your sleep? Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the ...