Healthy Sleep Series: Caffeine How Your Daily Fix Could be Sabotaging Your Sleep Mmm…caffeine…that super helpful molecule that fuels our productivity, often immersed in delicious beverages that we imbibe all day long in an attempt to become super heroes. Or, you...
Healthy Sleep Series: Alcohol After a fun night of socializing and having a few drinks with friends, you’re feeling nice and relaxed as you crawl into bed…so why are you wide awake and questioning your life choices at 3am?! Especially during this holiday season, and...
Shepherd’s Dream Healthy Sleep Series: Cortisol We’ve covered melatonin and tryptophan with its buddy serotonin, and now we’re focusing on another important sleep-related biochemical—cortisol. Defining stress has been a challenging exercise for scientists, so for our...
Shepherd’s Dream Healthy Sleep Series: Tryptophan and Serotonin For the second installment of our Healthy Sleep Series, we’re looking at the amino acid tryptophan and its intimate relationship with a key neurotransmitter governing our well-being—serotonin....
Shepherd’s Dream Healthy Sleep Series: Melatonin For the first installment of our Healthy Sleep Series, we’re exploring one of the best-known hormones associated with sleep—melatonin. Melatonin—The Master Sleep Hormone Melatonin is a hormone our brain produces...
