In a study posted by the Journal of Experimental Medicine, it is possible that sleep upregulates your T-cells, a specific type of cell made to fight infection, especially viruses. While you are more than welcome to read all the science...
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Don't go to bed pissed.
Going to bed angry can cause you to reinforce negative memories, making it harder to suppress these bad memories in the future. Interestingly enough, with functional MRI (fMRI), memories were theorized to be disorganized all over the brain cortex rather...
Sleep and weightlifting.
Sleep is essential for muscle hypertrophy. While somewhat dated, there was a study in Ergonomics which showed that successive nights of sleep deprivation lowered the performance of athletes for standard lifts (bench press, leg press, deadlift). A more recent meta analysis also showed...
Heavy social media
In a study by the University of Glasgow pubished in 2016, they found that social media use in adolescents at night showed that there was a correlation between anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and poor sleep. While the study focused on adolescents, it...