By Professor Grant Schofield One of the most important things to understand in a good night’s sleep is melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone. It’s suppressed during the day when you’re exposed to bright light, particularly light containing blue...
By Professor Grant Schofield What happens when we sleep? Let’s have a look at the sleep cycles, particularly Rapid Eye Movement (REM) or dream sleep, and non-REM or deep sleep, in humans and other animals. At the start of the night, you’re in a light sleep....
By Professor Grant Schofield So, let’s just take it from the start. Before a baby is born, when you’ll feel it kicking around and moving – which is all very exciting – interestingly, the baby is probably asleep and dreaming. They haven’t...
Sleep is the foundation for good health. The pillars of good health which consist of a nutritious diet, exercise and good mental health rest on this foundation. Poor sleep makes these pillars much harder to achieve. The majority of people in the world need at least 7...
Sleep is Medicine At PreKure we believe sleeping is good for you. We believe that regular good quality sleep increases your quantity and quality of life. Sleeping has both deep sleep and rem (dream) sleep. Both are critical for mental and physical health, and are...
One thing Lisa believes we are not talking about enough is sleep. Sleep Medicine is a rapidly evolving science.When we sleep our immune system is most active. If you’re sleep deprived your Natural killer cells, or NK cells, which patrol the body removing...
