Intro to heart rate variability and sleep
Heart rate variability is a great indicator of your stress levels, fitness, and overall recovery. Here are some of the key basics to understanding your HRV.
Sleep and thoughts: The truth revealed
Understanding what is happening in our bodies as it relates to sleep is key, but we also need to bring in another factor — your thoughts.
Crescent's approach and the science of sleep improvement
Improving sleep mainly has to do with balancing your body, mind, and nervous system. Something that is off will not only affect your life during the day but also at night. We can think of the night as...
Sleep and Stress
When we are on high alert, multiple systems in our body change to attend to the stressor. Our visual field, blood flow, perceptions of danger, muscle tension, breathing, thought patterns...
Insomnia as a survival response?
Sleep and survival mechanisms share several links. Think about sleep this way... What if our sleep drive was so strong that we fell asleep at our bedtime no matter what else was going on.
Sleep 101
Introduction to Sleep
Learning to sleep better starts with understanding what is happening while we sleep