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Health and Wellness

This guide provides library resources related to health, wellness and nutrition.

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What You Should Know About Sleep Paralysis

Read to find out about the Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment.

 

20 Tips For How To Sleep Better

We look closer at how to sleep better, with clear steps to improve your sleep habits. From evaluating your bedroom environment to optimizing your sleep schedule, our approach to getting better sleep includes specific actions that you can take to make it easier to fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up feeling well-rested.

 

Screen Time And Insomnia

A majority of teenagers bring some technology into the bedroom, adding to the amount of screen time they get each day and affecting multiple areas of their lives. Experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the effects of blue light from these electronic devices on the sleep-wake cycle. An estimated 2 in 3 teenagers regularly sleep less than the recommended amount, and screen time may be responsible for sleep deprivation and other problems.

 

How Sleep Affects Immunity

Over the past few decades, sleep science has developed immensely, revealing the far-reaching importance of sleep for virtually every system of the body. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)NINDS aims to seek fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease. As research has delved further into the links between sleep and physical health, it has become increasingly clear that sleep and the immune system are closely connected.

 

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How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?

Are you over or under sleeping?

 

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Understanding "How Do I Sleep Better"

Have we all thought that we could sleep better? Can we solve sleep? Dr. Vyga Kaufmann discusses just what sleep disorders are and what tools you have to sleep better tonight. Hint: no square screens anywhere near your bed.

 

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How To Calm Your Worries And Sleep Better

Are you struggling to fall asleep at night because your mind just won't stop racing? In this animation, sleep scientist Jared Minkel reveals a few of his favorite strategies for calming your mind at bedtime.