Color noise, including pink, brown, and white noise, is beneficial for sleep, focus, and learning. Each type varies in frequency distribution, affecting how sound is perceived. Listening to color noise can help tune out distractions, but should be done safely at volumes below 70 decibels. Experimenting with different types may enhance daily activities. (AI-generated excerpt)
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Alternatives for safe, natural sleep
The article emphasizes the critical importance of sleep for overall health, highlighting the risks associated with chronic sleep deprivation and the dependency issues linked to common sleep medications, particularly benzodiazepines. It also discusses natural alternatives like melatonin, magnesium, and valerian as safer options for managing insomnia, reminding those seeking change to consult their medical providers to ensure they have no contraindications and to guide them through changes, if any, to prescription medications. (AI-generated excerpt.
Sleep Matters: Tips for Better Sleep
Approximately 25 to 33 percent of us aren’t getting enough sleep. While one night of lost sleep can impair mindfulness and reduce performance during the day that follows, the effects are usually corrected once sleep is restored. But the repercussions of chronic sleep loss are of greater concern for quality of life and disease risk…
Protect Your Health With These Tips
While the world is focused on the rapid spread of COVID-19, the global public health community echoes what the natural health community already knows: prevention is the most important weapon against illness. Here, we’re offering a refresher course on the best practices for protecting yourself—and supporting your immune system—against viruses and infection. Sidestep stress You…
Bring Balance To Your Life
It’s a viscous cycle. Ongoing stress makes everything else your body tries to do harder, including providing immune support. But we needn’t give in to our circumstances or scary headlines without taking some simple steps to help combat stress. None of us can escape some stress, especially in times like these. But even small steps…
Immunity Tips for Every Stage of Life
Your immune system faces different challenges at different stages of your life. Here’s how to give it everything it needs, no matter your age. Tots and toddlers The moment you leave the safety of your mother’s womb, your body is exposed to viruses, bacteria, and a host of new risks. Previously, your mother’s immune system…
Four Studies Reveal New Vitamin D Benefits
Vitamin D. If you aren’t getting enough of the “sunshine vitamin,” then chances are your health could be suffering from your deficiency. These four studies explored further benefits to sufficient vitamin D levels and your best health. Diabetic retinopathy Poorly controlled glucose levels in diabetes can cause changes in the retina of the eye that…
Simple Lifestyle Shifts: The Best Summer Weight Loss Guide, Part 4 of 6
Read Parts 1, 2, & 3 Join Betsy’s this summer on a weight loss journey with our six-part series, The Best Summer Weight Loss Guide. In Part Four, we look at some of the small changes in your daily lifestyle choices that may help you meet your weight goals even sooner–and keep the weight off!…
A Sleep Hormone and So Much More
You may know of melatonin as the hormone your body makes to help you regulate sleep, but new research suggests this hormone may do much more, including influencing MS symptoms and improving body composition. Note that not everyone should be supplementing with over-the-counter melatonin. Our bodies only begin declining in melatonin production as we reach…
Melatonin: Your Need For Knowledge
I was standing in line at a major pharmacy recently when a young woman walked up to the counter and asked where the pharmacy kept its melatonin. “You know,” she said, “it’s a sleep aid.” I waited to hear the right questions from the pharmacy staff, who really should have corrected the young woman (in…
3 Things to Know About Your Immune Health
Earlier this week, we at Betsy’s Health Foods were honored to be visited by Dean Morris, a fifth generation Master Herbalist, who gave us some tips for how nutrients may help with general immune support. Here are just three of the many things we learned that we think you will also find useful. 1….
An Holistic Approach: Our Conversation with Dr. Teitelbaum
Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, practicing holistic physician and author of more than a dozen books, including Fatigued to Fantastic, Real Causes/Real Cures, and Pain Free 1, 2, 3, honored our Fallbrook location Monday with a personal training for our staff. Tonight, the rest of our staff will be hearing Dr. Teitelbaum speak to a group of natural foods…
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