by Sharon Brock | Aug 8, 2024 | Restorative Sleep, Daily Habits, Stress Management
By Sharon Brock, MEd, MS Millions of Americans share a similar experience every morning. The alarm goes off, but they’ve already been awake for hours in bed. They hit the snooze button to squeeze in a few more minutes of precious rest, not realizing they were...
by Sharon Brock | Aug 8, 2024 | Restorative Sleep, Profiles
By Sharon Brock, MEd, MS Like a Renaissance explorer, the insatiable curiosity of Jamie Zeitzer, PhD, drives him to explore big questions as a senior researcher and co-director of the Stanford Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences. After 25 years of conducting sleep...
by Mary Grace Descourouez & Sharon Brock | Aug 8, 2024 | Restorative Sleep, Daily Habits, Stress Management
By Mary Grace Descourouez, MS, NBC-HWC and Sharon Brock, MEd, MS Many of us have heard that looking at our phones or iPads at night can keep us awake due to light exposure, however, research shows this may be true for children, but there is not sufficient evidence to...
by Sharon Brock | Aug 8, 2024 | Restorative Sleep, Daily Habits, Stress Management, Recovery
By Sharon Brock, MEd, MS Not getting enough restorative sleep is a rampant health concern across the US. It’s estimated that 50 to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and 1 in 3 adults do not get the recommended 7 to 8 hours of sleep...
by Sharon Brock | Jul 4, 2024 | Daily Habits, Movement & Exercise
By Sharon Brock, MS, MEd Many of you are familiar with the 10,000-steps-a-day walking trend, but you may not know where it originated. The idea of walking 10,000 steps per day did not come from scientific research; rather, it came from a marketing campaign for a...
by Sharon Brock | Jul 2, 2024 | Daily Habits, Movement & Exercise
By Sharon Brock, MS, MEd We all know about the Olympic Decathlon (ten track and field events held across two consecutive days), but have you heard about the Centenarian Decathlon? Stanford alumni Peter Attia, MD, coined the term Centenarian Decathlon as the ten...