You may have heard about the Kava herb. Scientific name – Piper methysticum. Also known as the Kava kava herb, it’s supposed to be a great sleep aid. Or is it? Yours truly is an ex Kava herb user. And Kava herb never did work for me. Actually, Kava herb has never helped me to [...]
6 hours of sleep used to be thought of as inadequate. But the results of a study done way back in 2002 seems to raise the question again of whether a night’s sleep of 6-plus hours for the average adult was at all inadequate, as has been widely thought. According to Daniel Kripke, co-director of [...]
The Relationship Between the Circadian Rhythm and Sleep The circadian rhythm is a 24 hour periodic cycle that is adhered to by the body at all times. Circadian rhythms can be regarded as the biological clock of the body, and it comes from the words, circa, which means “around,” and diem, which means “day.” The [...]