We now know that your immune system is intimately involved with the sleep process, handling a great deal of the communication and housecleaning activities that are totally different than the idea of fighting a bug. Your lymph system is a key part of your immune system and its function during sleep is explained above in the section Unclog Lymph System for...

Too much Substance P in your nerves will also interfere with sleep, making you feel wired or anxious, similar to how a Hypocretin problem feels (explained in the previous section). However, Substance P is not involved with pleasure urges or reward behavior. It is part of a natural system that processes pain and inflammation.Hypocretin problems are...

Disturbances in your sleep pattern, either not being able to get to sleep or not being able to stay asleep, are a key sign that stress friction is affecting your nerves. Poor sleep results in poor recovery leading to a reduced energy level and more fatigue the next day. This means even less energy to deal with stress. This nasty de-energizing catch 22 can...

You must get an adequate amount of sleep in order to lose weight. Sleep is prime fat burning time. If you don't get enough you throw leptin out of balance, are tired the next day, and want to eat more to try to get your energy going. This invariably leads to overeating and weight gain.Individuals with sleep deficiency or insomnia may also have concurrent...

Many people with fibromyalgia are physically exhausted yet go to bed and stare at the ceiling. In general, the more hours in the day your energy runs better the easier it will be for you to go to sleep. Your nerves will not go to sleep easily when there is too much trash in your body and you have built up too much Substance P in your nerves as the day has...

Fibromyalgia essentially means that your muscles hurt too much, you have too much fatigue, you don't sleep well, you run out of gas and start hurting doing what many others consider normal activity, you have very poor stress tolerance, and your nerves feel wound up like a cat on a hot tin roof. Your ability to exercise and get a good response to exercise...

If you are short on sleep and are trying to lose weight it may cut your results by 55%, as demonstrated by a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

When teachers watch grades plummet they invariably know something stressful is going on in that student's life. That is because the inflammation resulting from the problems is disturbing sleep – and a good night's sleep is now turning out to be the key to memory and learning.

A new study shows that widely used sleep medications triple the risk for mortality. The data comes from the National Population Health Survey in Canada. The study involved 14,117 people aged 18 to 102 years, with data collected every second year from 1994 to 2007. It found that even one dose of anti-anxiety or sedative medication in the previous month...

New research with 240 eighteen-year-olds found that as sleep duration went down the consumption of fat and the habit of snacking increased. These changes are enough to shift healthy metabolic function onto a path of weight gain. If someone is already overweight then the shorter sleep time is simply going to further aggravate the problem.

Snoring is the main symptom of sleep apnea or its precursor condition, hypopnea, which involves the reduction of airflow. While it is disturbing to one’s sleep partner, it is also a sign of a health problem that should be improved to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and significantly improve energy. A new study by Italian researchers confirms a...

A study looking at sleep duration in 1,138 children age 6 found that less than 10 hours of sleep on a regular basis increased the risk of obesity 420 percent.

The role of ATP in sleep regulation

Effects of Oral Supplementation with Pyrroloquinoline Quinoneon Stress, Fatigue, and Sleep

Evening chronotype is associated with changes in eating behavior, more sleep apnea, and increased stress hormones in short sleeping obese individuals.

Ghrelin in mental health, sleep, memory.

Acute sleep deprivation in healthy young men: Impact on population diversity and function of circulating neutrophils.

[The relationship between obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome and adenoid size as well as tonsil size in children].