Social media trends have become increasingly influential – even changing bedtime routines and sleep habits for many Americans. According to a 2025 survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 56% of U.S. adults have tried one of this year’s viral social media trends related to sleep. “Bed rotting,” which is […]
Tag: SLEEP HYGIENE
Sleep To Live Well Foundation Launches With Groundbreaking Sleep Wellness Report
The Sleep To Live Well Foundation issues an urgent warning in its groundbreaking 2025 State of Sleep Wellness Report, titled “THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: How Lack of Sleep Endangers Over Half of All Americans and Threatens Everyone.” The report unveils the Foundation’s initiatives to address this insufficient sleep crisis with Sleep Wellness—a holistic approach to […]
Better Sleep at Our Fingertips
With roughly 30% of the U.S. population using consumer health technologies that track sleep, mobile sleep health apps have emerged as a scalable and affordable tool with the potential to improve sleep health for the general population.1 While wearables and other hardware devices often get the spotlight, the power of […]
Help Students Hit Reset On Their Bedtime Routine This Fall
As the summer season comes to a close, hitting “reset” on routines is the perfect way to prepare students to go back to school. When it comes to sleep, practice certainly makes perfect. According to a recent survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the vast majority (81%) of parents […]
Eight Habits That Could Lengthen Your Life by Decades
A new study involving over 700,000 U.S. veterans reports that people who adopt eight healthy lifestyle habits by middle age can expect to live substantially longer than those with few or none of these habits. According to the results, men who have all eight habits at age 40 would be […]
The Implications of Sleep Duration, Weight Loss and Sleep Hygiene
By Nathan Costiuc, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC As the dark shadow of COVID-19 begins to lift, critically-important health concerns which had previously shrunk in significance are now returning to the limelight, chief among these being obesity. Unfortunately, the transition to low-level endemicity we hope for with SARS-CoV-2 is nowhere in sight […]
Women Suffer Greater Consequences From Lack of Sleep Than Men
A new survey from Sleep Cycle, the best-selling alarm clock application, reveals that Mars and Venus have different needs in the bedroom when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep—and that women suffer more than men when they don’t. The national survey of 1,004 U.S. adults was conducted online […]










