Although we experience sleep as one event, it actually happens in stages. When we sleep, our body goes through different stages. These stages are what we call the “stages of sleep” or “the sleep cycle”. The sleep cycle has four stages; three stages of Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM sleep) and one stage of Rapid Eye Movement (REM sleep). These stages continue to go on in loops throughout the night.
Do you know that you have 87 billion neurons, each having 7000 synapses in your body? These trillions of neural connections make up the neural pathways for everything you encounter in life: people, objects, events, behaviours, environmental cues, etc. The more you encounter them or do something repeatedly, the stronger that pathway gets, becoming your default pattern. These neural circuits create who you are.
Dr. Marcus Ranney deconstructs the facts around proning or prone positioning and the must and must not of administering proning in home settings.
Our planet has undergone irreparable damage in the last century and there’s little we can do to reverse what we’ve subjected the Earth to.
We all know someone at home or in our social circles who have tested positive for COVID-19. Proper management of COVID-19 for patients at home is essential in making sure your health is regained.
In the worlds of digital health and future technologies in which I play each day, I have come to realise that well-being is bigger than sickness and health, it cannot be defined by a clear set of boundary conditions or prescribed by a strict formula but is, in the end, a personalised journey of experimentation.
Important life decisions, like whether to eat chips or fruit for lunch, are complex, neurophysiological processes. Our behaviour determines our decisions and whilst initially considered rigid, it is now being proven that behaviours can be changed, leopards can change their spots.
When handled properly, stress can actually increase your survival probability because not all stress is destructive or inherently bad.