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The Conversation: Could sharing a bedroom with your pets be keeping you from getting a good night’s sleep?

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By Brian Chin
| Today’s News-Herald Verified
Sleeping with your dog in the same room could be negatively affecting your sleep quality, according to my team’s 2024 research paper in Scientific Reports. We recruited a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500 American adults who completed questionnaires assessing their sleep habits. Overall, about half of the participants reported co-sleeping with pets – defined in our study as sleeping in the same room with your pet for at least part of the night.
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Social media before bedtime wreaks havoc on our sleep − a sleep researcher explains why screens alone aren’t the main culprit Original

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By Brian Chin
| Yahoo Verified
Social media use before bedtime can be stimulating in ways that screen time alone is not. Adam Hester/Tetra Images via Getty Images “Avoid screens before bed” is one of the most common pieces of sleep advice. But what if the real problem isn’t screen time − it’s the way we use social media at night? Sleep deprivation is one of the most widespread yet overlooked public health issues, especially among young adults and adolescents.
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The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say instead

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By Brian Chin
| Japan Today Verified
I saw it firsthand after my cat Murphy died earlier this year. She’d been diagnosed with cancer just weeks before. She was a small gray tabby with delicate paws who, even during chemotherapy, climbed her favorite dresser perch – Mount Murphy – with steady determination. The day after she died, a colleague said with a shrug: “It’s just part of life.” That phrase stayed with me – not because it was wrong, but because of how quickly it dismissed something real. Murphy wasn’t just a cat.
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