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My experience with Hydroxyzine aka Atarax

This Atarax stuff is quite powerful but not so good in my opinion. Atarax is the brand name for Hydroxyzine hydrochloride, an antihistamine calming drug that is often prescribed for anxiety disorders, (as well as for sleeping problems). It is supposed to be very much less habit forming than most anxiety pills and besides that, [...]

Why Sleeping Late At Night Is Bad

What time do you usually go to bed at night? Sleeping late at night has become the trend in our culture today, but please bear in mind that our basic physiology has never changed at all from the days of our ancestors. We still need 7-8 hours of sleep a night minimum, but there’s more [...]

Sleep and Shift Work

Shift work is becoming commonplace in today’s increasingly globalized world. Call centers for example, or 24 hour stores. Sometimes people work two jobs, and then they have to do shift work. Basically, anything other than Monday to Friday, or from 9-5, would be regarded as shift work. Naturally, all this puts your circadian rhythm out [...]

The ultimate drug to stay awake?

In present day society, sleep has taken a backseat because there really is “too much to do, and too little time to do it.” So what we humans have done is cut down into our sleep time, often with negative, even disastrous results. But, times are changing, and we now have drugs that can in [...]

Exercising before sleeping

Is it true that exercising vigorously a few hours before sleeping will affect your sleep? This post is just drawn from my past experiences, and I believe that it does affect sleep, at least my sleep. In fact, nowadays, I don’t even exercise within 4 hours of sleeping, and the reasons I will state below. [...]