Catching up on lost sleep is an elusive gamble. Research shows that once your rest patterns are disrupted, it takes a lot more than sleeping late on the weekends to reverse the damage.

In many ways, our ancestors’ lifestyle was more in tune with the human body’s natural rhythms. And research shows one important activity these folks used to recoup their mental and physical energy is still important today.

Did you sleep well last night? It may not be stress or insomnia … you could have a sleep condition known as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Until recently, science had no answer for why we sleep. Their best guess? Because we get tired. But research has shown us that channels open up in the brain and clear away waste during sleep to help keep our brains healthy. But sleep is often elusive. Here’s how to get more…

You bet it can… In fact, the CDC actually considers insufficient sleep a major public health problem. That’s because there are some real dangers associated with not getting enough sleep — dangers that even the purveyors of mainstream medicine can’t deny…

For many people sleep is elusive. That’s not good, considering it’s not only important to help you function, but lack of sleep is tied to disease and poor health. Your body needs those precious nightly hours — and these 12 natural sleep aids can help…

A question I ask nearly every patient I see is, “Do you sleep well?” It’s such an important question because insomnia is much more than just feeling tired the day after a night of poor sleep. It’s also a major cause for many illnesses…

How many hours of sleep do you get nightly? Women are notorious for functioning on way too little. Well, it’s time to take note about the importance of sleep, because the quality of the sleep you get now, may help you survive breast cancer later.

If you’ve ever traveled internationally or worked a second or third-shift job, you know that when your biological clock is out of whack, your whole body suffers.

A mid-afternoon nap is my frequent go-to strategy for getting my mental powers back when they start to get fuzzy. If you would like a little more sleep (and the 5 health benefits that go with it) here are some tips for more effective napping.

I’ll be glad to see longer days but not the disruption, minor though it may seem to most, to my circadian rhythm. After all, when we spring forward we lose an hour — and some of us need that hour more than you may realize…

Lack of sleep could have a deadly effect on both men and women. According to researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, sleeping fewer hours increases the risk for aggressive breast cancer in certain women.