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How Better Sleep Helps Balance Blood Sugar and Support Memory

Over time, sleeping less than five hours a night increases your blood sugar swings by 2.87%. That finding — published in JAMA Network Open — underscores just how much your sleep habits impact your metabolic health.1 Glycemic variability — the technical term for those swings — plays a major role in insulin resistance and Type… Read More: How Better Sleep Helps Balance Blood Sugar and Support Memory »

Can Yoga Help Improve Balance for Stroke Victims?

881 Shares Statistics relating to strokes and falls are bleak, with research revealing that strokes can increase the risk of falling by 4 times and drastically increase the risk of breaking a hip following a fall. Approximately 80% of individuals who have strokes will also have impaired balance to some degree. A study which presented… Read More: Can Yoga Help Improve Balance for Stroke Victims? »