Tag: tired

From the cells in your calf muscles to your brain neurons, the same holds true: you use up energy and then you need to refuel. How? You stop, rest, and nourish yourself.

We don’t push ourselves to workout after running a marathon, and yet we often overlook our need for soul recovery.

Just like the heart, the brain gets fatigued from too much time-on-task. "If you overtax your heart, the next thing you need to do is relax, or you'll die," says Jeff Stibel, CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. and author of "Wired for Thought," among other books. "The same thing is true of the brain.

Recently, the New York Times reported on an interesting study by the National Sleep Foundation in an article titled "Study Finds Many Are Too Tired for Sex", which suggested that, "One in four Americans married or living with someone say they are so sleep-deprived that they are often too tired to have sex."

Many of my clients in my San Francisco private practice and couples in our Marriage Prep 101 workshops shared these sleep foundation findings with us.

When you have a cold, the guy who sits next to you at work says, "Hey, you sound better."

If you recently had a baby, your neighbor smiles and asks, "Are you getting any sleep, yet?"

If your mom's chemo has ended, your friends want to know, "What did the doctors say? How's she doing?"

But what if you've spent the last three or four months struggling with getting out of bed?

Women may experience small benefits with a drug approved last year in the U.S. to treat low sexual desire in women, but at a high risk of experiencing unpleasant side effects, according to a new analysis.

The findings "suggest that the benefits of flibanserin are marginal," given that "one in three women experience side effects, of which the most common ones include dizziness, sleepiness, nausea, and tiredness," said lead author Dr. Loes Jaspers, of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Tired feet, aching head, growling stomach; these are some of the side effects of working 12 hour days, seven days a week. This is our schedule from opening business at 4:00 pm and finally coming home at 5:00 in the morning. It means sitting down to have dinner just as the birds are announcing the dawn of a new day.

For David, the 12-hour days are not so different from what he experienced in New York. As a private chef

People are busy. Somehow we mange to get through each day even though we're stretched for time, overworked and tired. It’s not surprising then that being tired is getting in the way of people having good sex on a regular basis—but not in the way you might think. A big couple conundrum and question to me is, "How can we want sex when we’re always so tired?"

My response follows something along the lines of, "Usually it’s not being tired that is preventing you from wanting sex."