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Ah! Tuesday’s Sleep

You might get to sleep in on the weekends but is it the best sleep? According to new research, the answer is no.

While it’s not the longest sleep of the week (weekends usually mean an extra 30 minutes in bed on Friday and Saturday nights), Tuesday night sleep is the most restorative, with a fall in blood pressure and stress hormones, according to a June 28 article in The Telegraph.

While experts aren’t exactly sure why this is the case, it could be that Tuesday nights are free from the rich food and drinks consumed over the weekend.

“People rest for a lot longer during the weekend, but perhaps they are out partying and letting their hair down and their bodies don’t physiologically recover,” says Simon Shepard, chief executive officer of Optima-Life, the U.K.-based distributor of the heart monitors used in the study. “On Mondays and Tuesdays, your energy levels may still be high after the weekend. And while you may still be sociable, you may be sociable in a different way, going to a book group rather than the pub.”

The study found only 48% of Saturday night and 48.7% of Friday night’s sleep revitalizes the body and brain. This is compared with a high of 55.1% on Tuesday nights, while 54.6% of sleep on Monday was considered to be restorative, the article notes.best_night_sleep_tuesday-1

What happen’s if your partner snores??

Getting enough sleep has this positive perk on a happy marriage — couples are more satisfied with their partners when they are rested.

Researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, studied 68 newlyweds over a seven-day period. Each couple recorded the number of hours slept and answered two sets of questions on a scale of 1 (not satisfied at all) to 7 (extremely satisfied), according to a news release from FSU.

The first set of questions focused on relationship satisfaction. The second set focused on experiences in nine areas such as chores, conflict resolution and amount of time spent together.

The researchers found that husbands, in particular, were less negatively impacted by bad experiences when they had sufficient rest.

The paper, “The Rested Relationship: Sleep Benefits in Marital Evaluations,” was published in the July issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.

Orthopedic Mattresses – How It Helps You Overcome Spinal Pain?

Several people always complain about back pain regardless of they are sitting, standing or sleeping. Even a minor accident can trigger the endless episodes of back pain. The duration of sleep each night plays an important role as it provides quality time to the spine to recover itself. This is where the role of an orthopedic mattress comes in to the scene. If the mattress is not doing its job right, the chances of repair gets out of the equation, instead, the condition of the spine gets worsened.

Apart from any prior injury or bad posture, sleeping on wrong kind of mattress can also induce back pain. If this condition is not treated in right time, it can become a permanent problem. So, replacing the regular mattress with an orthopedic mattress improves this situation and aids the body to repair itself.

Orthopedic Mattress

If the reason for constant back pain is not a result of any injury or accident, then the chances are high that the individual is sleeping on the wrong mattress. Every individual is unique in terms of shape, size and body weight, and thus, each individual needs a unique kind of mattress. One mattress which is adequate for one individual might be causing problem for the other one.

It is to be kept in mind that, every mattress does deteriorate with time and a low quality does it even more quickly. The more quickly it wears off, the sooner the back pain starts again.

An orthopedic mattress is designed to provide comfort and right posture to the body for a much longer period. The spine is curved twice to give the shape of ‘S’, if this shape is not maintained, the individual can develop back ache.

orthopedic mattress

The spine is robust and can recover automatically if it gets adequate amount of rest on correct mattress. An orthopedic mattress is designed specifically to support the spine with exerting minimum pressure. It also provides spine the perfect alignment, irrespective of whether the individual is a back sleeper or side sleeper.

The typical weekdays of an individual is spent on doing desk work and weekends on doing recreational activities, thus the condition of the spine does not stay the same and needs different care during the night. An orthopedic mattress is designed to endure these changes. Unlike the spring mattress, the orthopedic mattress exerts ideal pressure on spine and soothing the back while sleeping.