February 2024

Welcome to the next installment in this blog where learn about sleep and how you can sleep better! Many things can prevent you from sleeping like caffeine, noisy kids, and the Vikings once again failing to go to the Super Bowl, but something everyone experiences at some point in their life is mental health issues.

Welcome to the next installment in my sleep blog where we explore how you can sleep better! We have discussed a plethora of different topics from melatonin to sleep hygiene to naps. Today, I wanted to focus on likely the most well-known aspect of sleep. Sleeping pills are widely marketed on cable TV as the

If you’re somebody who wants to skip to the end to get the summary of a long post or article, this blog post is for you! You won’t be able to skip to the end to get an overview, but in this post, I will summarize the past blog posts and condense them down to

Welcome to the next entry in this blog series all about sleep, how you can sleep better, and tools to accomplish those goals. Today, we will be looking at light and how it affects your sleep. We’ll be reviewing a variety of different applications for light to help you sleep as well as the hindrance

Welcome to the next entry of How Can I Sleep Better? Today we will be discussing temperature and the role it plays in the health of your sleep from the perspective of quality and quantity. We’ll talk about thermogenics, I know it’s a sciency word again but stick with me here, vasodilation, again stick with

Entry 4 in this series is going to take you through the world of alcohol in relation to sleep. We’ve talked about a common way to keep yourself awake, caffeine, so let’s talk about a common tool people use to help them sleep. We’ll break down what alcohol does in the brain, the misconceptions surrounding

Welcome to entry number 3 in this series where we decipher how to sleep better and what tools to use to achieve that goal! So far, we have discussed some definitions of sleep latency, efficiency, and opportunity as well as melatonin. Today, we’re going to be focusing on caffeine and adenosine. Adenosine seems like one

Welcome to the second entry in the “How Can I Sleep Better” series! Last entry, we discussed sleep latency, sleep efficiency, and sleep opportunity. Today, we will be focusing on a common sleep aid taken by kids and adults alike called melatonin. We’ll look at the efficacy of melatonin, some misconceptions surrounding melatonin, what it

This question of “How can I sleep better” plagues much of Western culture, and other parts of the world, for a few reasons. Maybe you fall into that and don’t particularly care about what those reasons are, and I think that’s understandable. As a therapist, I can tell you those reasons are important, but it