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- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Here's why a bad night's sleep makes you hungry
Forget puffy eyes and poor productivity, lack of sleep can play havoc with your hunger levels!
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
The surprising reason it gets harder to sleep as you get older
Can't sleep? Science says it could be down to our age as we find it harder to know when we're sleepy as we get older.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Can you actually train your body to need less sleep?
Should we be focussing on the quality not quantity of sleep we’re getting? Well, that might just be doable as according to one sleep expert it is actually possible to train your body to need less sleep. Professor Jim Horne, sleep neuroscientist at Loughborough University, claims that most of us can actually make do with just six hours shut eye a night.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Trick yourself into being a morning person (even when you’re really not!)
According to The Body Clock Guide to Better Health only about 1 in 10 of us is a true morning person, which means that for 90% of us the struggle to get out of bed is very *real*! Thankfully, even if you’re not a naturally early riser, you can still fake entry to the pre-breakfast party because while around 50% of our brain’s body clock is dictated by our age and our genetics, the other half can be trained.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Why do we wake up with gloopy sleep goo in our eyes?
Sleep, eye bogies, or if you live in the US eye boogers. According to Tej Johal, optometrist at Maverick and Wolf the icky stuff is actually made up of a bunch of different materials, including mucus and oils, that gather overnight. “Eye discharge is a combination of mucus and oils which gather in your eyes,” he explains.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Here's why you really shouldn't sleep in your bra
Picture the scene. It’s Friday night and after going for ‘just the one’ after work, you eventually tumble through the door in the early hours and you’re so, so tired worse for wear. Too tired to take off your make up, or brush your teeth, and as for removing your clothes, well forget about it.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
11 things that totally changed our sex lives in 2016
Forget Brexit and the US Presidential election, the real politics has been going on between the sheets. From innovations in sex toys to men finally taking charge of the contraception, women getting vaginal massages to next generation condoms, this year may have been pretty pants when it comes to life in general, but as far as sex is concerned it's been a bit of a winner.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Why you should never go to bed with wet hair (it's not because you'll catch a cold)
Time to plug in the hairdryer because going to bed with wet hair will have you waking up with the snots. When you lay your wet hair onto your pillow, friction from tossing and turning in your sleep can temporarily damage your hair. It will then be harder to style when you’re in a rush to leave the house the following morning,” explains Phil Smith, Celebrity stylist and creator of BE GORGEOUS.
StyleMarie-Claire DorkingDon’t lose sleep about your extra hour’s sleep
As we prepare to rewind our clocks by an hour and rejoice in the hope that this might mean a whole extra hour in bed, we’ve got a bit of news that might just pop your snooze bubble. Thus a 60 minute shift is a massive adjustment to take on board, and can throw our whole sleep pattern out of sync with our body clock,” explains ‘Dave Gibson, Warren Evans’ Sleep Expert. Other sleep experts agree the extra hour can be disruptive.
- StyleMarie-Claire Dorking
Why You Really Should Be Washing Your Bedsheets More
How often do you wash your bedsheets? Ok so we’d like to be washing our bedsheets more, but what with juggling a job, social life and Netflix subscription CONFESSION! it can take us a while to get round to it, like a few weeks while. According to a recent YouGov poll more than a third of us wait 14 days to wash our sheets, while a super slothy one in ten of us only get round to sticking them in the washing machine every four weeks.
- StyleNatasha Preskey
Scientists Have Found A Link Between How Well You Sleep And What Kind Of Partner You Have
How well you sleep in a relationship isn’t just to do with whether your other half is ridiculously warm or if they’re generous with the duvet. Scientists have found that the psychological nature of your relationship is a huge factor in determining whether or not you get a good night’s kip. Dr. Emre Selçuk, of Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and a team of scientists questioned almost 700 married or cohabiting adults aged 35-86.
