sleep Tag

September 20, 2014 In Green & Healthy Living, Health & Wellness, News By Vancouver Health Coach

Want to Lose Weight? Try Deep Restorative Sleep

If you are someone who is interested in losing body fat, gaining muscle, slowing biological aging, maintaining the health of your brain and feeling fantastic, getting a good night’s sleep is no longer optional!  If we could only conquer the mysteries of sleep, we potentially could unlock the secret to longevity itself (and lose a few extra pounds in the process). Unfortunately, loss of deep-sleep is cumulative and is often referred to as our sleep-debt and as we know sleep-dept is not an easy debt to repay. Research presented in the prestigious journal The Lancet, shows that sleep-debt can exert a...

August 27, 2014 In Green & Healthy Living, News, Spotlight By Vancouver Health Coach

Will Getting to Bed Late at Night Make You Fat

Many of our hormones are intimately related to circadian rhythms, and their function gets thrown off when we completely ignore the fact that night follows day, and day follows night. During the longer days of summer, mammals are hardwired to find sustenance to store as fat, to help them last the shorter days of winter where they will be either hibernating or eating less due to lack of food availability. In humans, this hardwiring shows up as a desire for carbohydrates. By choosing to stay up with the lights on, watching TV or doing computer work late at night long after the...

June 26, 2014 In Green & Healthy Living, News, Spotlight, Yoga By Vancouver Health Coach

Can’t sleep? Yoga poses to get a good night’s rest

Yoga has so many benefits mentally, physically, and emotionally. Feeling stressed and overtired can be the inability to sleep soundly. At the end of the day we expect our bodies to shut down instantly and fall asleep. After a full day of energy-charging our bodies, it can be tough to wind down automatically. Television and computers do not help either with slowing down the nervous system. Many researchers claim that not getting enough sleep has many negative health consequences, such as raising your risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and even obesity. In addition to those, it also has an effect...