sleep-wake

Getting enough sleep—seven to eight hours—and ideally sleeping and waking at about the same time each day, even on weekends, is important to keep the sleep-wake cycle in tune.

How Your Schedule Can Help (or Hurt) Your Health Shirley S. Wang 2011

Eating and exercising regularly, but not close to bedtime, also are important to the sleep-wake cycle, he says.

How Your Schedule Can Help (or Hurt) Your Health Shirley S. Wang 2011

When we ask our bodies to adapt to a different time schedule, we disrupt our circadian rhythm, our body's powerful internal regulator, which governs our sleep-wake cycle, our ability to fall asleep and to wake feeling rested and ready to get out of bed.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays Dr. Michael J. Breus 2011

Daylight savings time costs money to implement, screws up sleep-wake cycles which results in more accidents and lower productivity at each switch-over, and actually wastes energy.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It Seems I Was Right About Daylight Savings Time 2010

And medicating a child to sleep through travel will only further disrupt his or her sleep-wake cycle, leaving your child even less able to adapt to sleeping in the new time zone.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays Dr. Michael J. Breus 2011

And medicating a child to sleep through travel will only further disrupt his or her sleep-wake cycle, leaving your child even less able to adapt to sleeping in the new time zone.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays Dr. Michael J. Breus 2011

When we ask our bodies to adapt to a different time schedule, we disrupt our circadian rhythm, our body's powerful internal regulator, which governs our sleep-wake cycle, our ability to fall asleep and to wake feeling rested and ready to get out of bed.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays Dr. Michael J. Breus 2011

And medicating a child to sleep through travel will only further disrupt his or her sleep-wake cycle, leaving your child even less able to adapt to sleeping in the new time zone.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays Dr. Michael J. Breus 2011

When we ask our bodies to adapt to a different time schedule, we disrupt our circadian rhythm, our body's powerful internal regulator, which governs our sleep-wake cycle, our ability to fall asleep and to wake feeling rested and ready to get out of bed.

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays Dr. Michael J. Breus 2011

Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone that helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle.

FDA says sleepy brownies are unsafe 2011