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Avoiding a firestorm in your bedroom: The Fibreglass Mattress Fiasco

Avoiding a firestorm in your bedroom: The Fibreglass Mattress Fiasco Summary • Fibreglass is fibres made of glass and used in mattresses because it is an effective insulator that can be flexibly worn into fabric.• Fibreglass ...

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The Science Behind Sleep Cycles

The key to feeling refreshed in the morning is understanding, and optimising, the different stages your body cycles through during sleep. A sleep cycle is one journey through the sleep stages you’re probably familiar with: light ...

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Sleep: Your Secret Weapon for a Happier Mind

In our hustle and bustle world, we often underestimate the power of sleep. We stay up late working, doom-scrolling, or watching yet another episode, fueling our need for more. But, guess what? That behaviour isn’t ...

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Which Chronotype are you?

Which Chronotype are you summary • Circadian rhythm is the body’s 24-hour clock that helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle, with daylight supporting alertness and nighttime melatonin supporting sleep.• People are grouped into four chronotypes: bear, wolf, ...

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Try Golden Milk For Sleep

This popular night time drink has been extremely popular on social media & with Hollywood celebrities in the past year so if you haven’t heard of Golden Milk, we thought we’d share the recipe. It’s sometimes ...

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5 Food Habits To Help You Sleep

There's a magic intersection between eating right and sleeping well. If you eat the right foods, you have the energy to exercise and it improves the quality of your sleep. Wake up feeling fresh and ...

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Which side of the bed do you sleep on?

We asked this question recently to our Sleepyhead community & while a simple question there seems to be a lot of complexities to which side of the bed you prefer. Turns out that from the ...

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New Zealand Sleep Survey

It might come as no surprise to you, but our sleep is actually getting worse. During Sleep Week in March, Sleepyhead alongside The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand held a nationwide survey to find out ...

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The Exhaustion Economy

Ever since we homosapiens started settling down in caves, nestling beside a warm fire or settling down for the night under a leafy blanket, we’ve worried about our sleep. But back 300,000 years ago, our anxieties ...

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Room With A View

Don’t leave town until you’ve seen the country! Remember the 1980s New Zealand tourism campaign? Now we’re all living it as any hopes of holidaying in overseas balmier climes have been curtailed for the time ...

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How do I find the right pillow?

How do I find the right pillow Summary: • Choosing the right pillow is influenced by personal preference, mattress type, and health factors, with options including wool, down, memory gel, and foam filling. • Your sleep position plays a ...

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Cleaning your sheets. Are you doing it wrong?

The Clean Getaway So you’ve just bought brand new bed linen and you’re looking forward to fluffing your pillows and sliding in between fresh clean sheets. Before you tear open the packaging, our Sleepyhead bed experts ...

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Sleeping, one of the secrets to weight loss

If your new year’s resolution is to lose weight in 2018, you’re going to need a lot of things in your tool box to help you throughout the year. But there is one simple thing ...

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Developing great sleep habits

All too often we expect to be able to rush around all day, spending a few hours in front of the computer or TV in the evening and then immediately fall into a deep sleep ...

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Natural remedies to help you sleep

If sleep has plunged to the bottom of your to-do list, you’re not alone. Although the National Sleep Foundation recommends getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night, the average person logs only around ...

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The link between anxiety and sleep

Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in New Zealand with more than 200,000 Kiwis living with an anxiety disorder. One of the body’s natural anxiety coping mechanisms is sleep. While we sleep, our mind ...

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Is poor sleep the reason for your weight gain?

Are you tired of putting on weight even though you’re doing all the right things to lose it? According to the Harvard School of Sleep, people who don’t get at least eight hours of sleep ...