It seems that a new discovery may help women get better sleep. Soy has been found to remedy and provide better sleep, thanks mainly to its estrogen-like compounds which should help post-menopausal women resolve their sleep woes.
The compounds are called isoflavones and have been known for testing against health problems which include the likes of menopause, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and increased body fat.
To investigate whether isoflavones might be beneficial, 38 postmenopau
People who have gone through cancer are bound to have problems and this includes sleep. After going through various chemotherapy and radiation procedures, a new study has revealed that yoga can help in this area and also cut back on sleeping medications.
The study included 410 cancer survivors who had completed treatment in the previous two years and had been experiencing sleep problems for at least two months. All but 16 of the patients were women, and 75 percent were breast cancer survivors. In addit
Older women are believed to have more sleep issues than older men but did you know that they complain more? Weird as it may seem, sleep deprivation has been bugging both genders but of the two, a research finds that women are actually getting better sleep than men.
Through a study participants kept a sleep diary and wore a device called an actigraph on their wrists to determine their sleeping behavior and sleep patterns. And afterwards, the actigraphs themselves revealed that men actually had less sleep than women at 6 ½ hours. Women slept 15 minutes more.
As people
