Best Hours To Sleep and Feel Recharged For The New Day

June 12, 2020 Rebekah Pierce

Lack of Sleep Can Slow Your Productivity At Home

If you are already trying to juggle a packed schedule and lack of sleep with all of your personal and professional obligations, it can be tough to find the right sleep schedule and best hours to sleep to meet your health needs. However, it’s important that you get enough sleep, even if it doesn’t fall into a standard schedule.

Need to be up and moving by 4 am each morning? Try to get to bed before 9 pm. That might mean cutting out a few hours of your favorite television shows, but it will be worth it when you don’t experience that mid-afternoon slump you’re used to feeling each day around 1 pm.

If you’re having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep at night - or if you find that you are experiencing daytime sleepiness despite getting to bed at a decent hour every night - you may want to chat with a doctor. You might have an underlying health condition that is causing your sleepiness.

Circadian Rhythm – The Sleep Wake Cycle Explained

January 9, 2020 Rebekah Pierce

Whether you are a night owl or an early bird, your sleep-wake cycle is something that is genetically pre-dispositioned. You are born into an environment where your sleep cycle and even your evolution as a human being was influenced by a 24-hour light cycle. While circadian rhythm isn’t something that’s super difficult to understand, it can be tricky to determine which factors are throwing off your particular circadian rhythm. You will need to do some work in order to understand which factors affect your own cycle - and how you can get them back in check.