Making sure that teenagers get enough sleep is a daunting task. Today, teenagers have a myriad of demands to stay awake and cheat sleep, such as job commitments, school work, family obligations and the powerful distracting force of the Internet. While excessive daytime sleepiness and a hindered ability to focus and excel in school are [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
sleep debt,
Sleep Deprivation,
teenagers
Editor’s Note: Last week, we looked at how long a sleep debt could last for, and how one can go about paying it back. But what if there was a way to avoid a sleep debt–or not have it hit so hard? Dream & Sleep Expert Ryan Hurd explains how this works.–Andi@Zeo Q: Can banking [...]
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Shift work,
sleep debt,
sleep fitness,
sleep hacking
Politicians aren’t the only ones talking about deficit spending. Sleep researchers and health experts have long argued that large segments of the population are sleep bankrupt–and don’t know it. Sure, we make the minimum payments by “sleeping in” on the weekend, but just like our credit card balance, we never manage to fully pay it [...]
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Jet Lag,
sleep debt,
Sleep Deprivation,
Sleep Schedule
Psst. It’s daylight savings this weekend. Time to screw up your circadian rhythm again. Why do we do this? If you look at all the countries that participate in daylight savings, as well as those who used to and those who never bothered to, one thing jumps out. It’s mostly us nuts who live towards [...]
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Bedtime Routine,
Daylight Savings,
sleep debt,
Sleep Promoters
Daylight Savings Time comes to an end this Saturday night and there are a few things you should look out for other than costumed characters toting eggs, shaving cream or toilet paper. Even though it’s an extra hour, the change can negatively affect driving ability & mood, so be ready and watch for changes that [...]
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Daylight Savings,
sleep debt,
Sleep Schedule
You grind during the week then recover during the weekend – right? It seems like the typical routine, but a look at almost 10,000 individual nights of sleep data from the Zeo Sleep Research Center’s database reveals that ‘catching-up’ on the weekends isn’t really happening. Only Averaging 6½ Hours of Sleep The amount of sleep [...]
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Sleep Data,
sleep debt,
Sleep Schedule