From being stressed, to being short on time, to illness, wanting to fall asleep faster is something that’s been on many people’s minds at some point or another.

According to one study done at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1 in 4 Americans struggle with insomnia at some point in their life. Of that 25%, another 25% never recover and struggle their whole lives.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is boost your immune system through diet. Why fight the infection or disease, when you prevent it from ever happening in the first place?

In a study in JAMA Network, researchers found that diet directly affects your risk of illness. When you eat, your food is digested, the vitamins and nutrients are absorbed through the small intestine, and then distributed to your body by the circulatory system.

Everyone’s had it before. Maybe you lost your glasses a few too many times one day, forgot an important meeting, or just felt plain foggy and unable to think clearly. We’re talking about brain fog.

You might be experiencing confusion, memory loss, trouble thinking and concentrating, unintentional negligence, or just feel plain spacey. You may just be having a day of brain fog here and there or it might be a chronic issue that’s disrupting your life.

On average over a 7-9 hour night of sleep, we go through 4-6 cycles of sleep.

During these cycles there are two different kinds of sleep, NREM (non-REM) and REM (Rapid Eye Movement). Deep sleep consists of both NREM sleep and REM sleep, taking place in stages 3 and 4 of the sleep cycle.

Deep sleep is important because these are the stages where your mind and body recharge from the day. Stage 3 of the sleep cycle allows your body to recharge while stage 4 helps with your cognitive functions too. Without these stages of sleep, our thinking would suffer along with our mental and physical health.