Author: Anthony Dugarte MD

7 Tips for a Restful Night

7 Tips for a Restful Night

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Sleep is a wonderful thing. It is the time carved out of your schedule to recuperate from the day’s challenges. Depending on your commitments, your schedule may allow for more or less. Other factors that can affect the quantity and quality of your rest include your sex, activity level, health, ...
5 Exercise Tips That Will Benefit Your Sleep

5 Exercise Tips That Will Benefit Your Sleep

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Physical activity has long been known to improve sleep quality and increase sleep duration. Aside from that exercise also bolsters sleep as it reduces stress and tires you out, inviting sleep to come more easily. Here are some exercise tips that will help you get a good night’s sleep and keep thi...
How Will You Improve Your Sleep This 2017?

How Will You Improve Your Sleep This 2017?

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It’s a new year…did you make any resolutions? Hopefully better sleep is one of them. Read below to learn more about how the quality of your sleep relates to some of the more common New Year’s resolutions.   Lose Weight Carrying extra weight can lead to health problems like diabetes and hear...
Coping with the stress of New Year’s Resolutions

Coping with the stress of New Year’s Resolutions

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It’s that time of the year again. We’re hopeful to leave bad habits and negative tendencies behind as the year changes. But we know it’s not easy. Before you can drop two dress sizes, significantly reduce your spending or have a spotless house, you’ll go through anxious days and sleepless...
Cubicle woes: office co-workers, does this ring a bell?

Cubicle woes: office co-workers, does this ring a bell?

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Have you been unlucky enough to share work space with a colleague who sometimes has you at your wits’ end? Are you being subjected everyday to the aroma of food, feet or strong perfume emanating from their cubicles? How does it feel to hear the minute details of their lives through the conversati...
De-stressing Through Holiday Pick-up lines

De-stressing Through Holiday Pick-up lines

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This post has nothing to do with sleep. But a good laugh is a sure way to get you off thinking about the stress of Christmas-related expenses, hectic schedule, long to-do lists and the humongous traffic. As I made rounds on my Twitter feed today I found that #holidaypickuplines was a trending top...
What to do with a meme addiction that interferes with sleep

What to do with a meme addiction that interferes with sleep

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You have just finished your evening routine, yawning with arms outstretched and getting ready for a restful night. But not just yet as your phone pings for another notification. You open your news feed, and pretty soon you find yourself grinning as you scroll through funny memes your friends have...
Best Ways to Cope with Post-election Stress

Best Ways to Cope with Post-election Stress

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You’ve heard the news. The ramblings on social media are nonstop. So is the chatter over dinner and at work. Whoever you voted or rooted for, the latest one would have to be one of the most hard-fought and talked-about elections we’ve had in the recent past. According to an article from Fox 3...
Reset your internal clock to adapt better to the end of DST

Reset your internal clock to adapt better to the end of DST

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Your circadian rhythm or natural sleep-wake cycle over the course of 24 hours may be generated by a part of the brain, but is influenced by the environment, our individual behaviour patterns, and any previous or existing medications we are taking. Light is the principal environmental cue. Light s...