So how are you sleeping these days? Having trouble shutting down all the nervous thoughts running around your head at night? Reschedule that pediatrician appointment, kid needs new soccer cleats again, why won't the baby's cold go away, where did our dog go, why is the electric bill so high this month ...

Or is that just me?

The folks at Dream Water had the notion that the moms at The Stir might need a little help getting to sleep, so they sent some samples for us to try.

If you've been feeling blue lately – down in the dumps, irritable, exhausted, distracted, maybe a little headache-y – might I humbly suggest a simple possible solution: Stand up, walk to the kitchen, snag a tall glass, pour yourself some water, and drink it up.

Glug, glug, glug …

There, better now? A new study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, has found that even mild dehydration (say, from not drinking enough fluids to compensate for hydration lost during exercise) can affect women's moods, their ability to concentrate, and their energy level -- and give them headaches as well.

We all know yoga's great for us. It's able to get us in shape physically, mentally, and spiritually in a way few other kinds of exercise really can. But it turns out it's particularly beneficial for a specific group of women: those suffering from breast cancer. A series of studies has shown that practicing yoga (a downward dog here, a child's pose there, some fancy nostril breathing) can significantly benefit the health and well-being of women who are undergoing treatment for cancer. And a new study, published just last month in the journal Cancer, shows it may also help those who are recovering after treatment.

Here are some of the benefits of yoga for women with breast cancer:

As cold and flu season bears down on us, we often feel helpless. Is there anything we can do to prevent what sometimes seems inevitable: that we'll come down with the flu du jour and spend a week (or more) coughing, sneezing, wheezing, feverish, and ... miserable?

It turns out, while there's no way to guarantee that you won't get sick, there are a few ways you can boost your immunity so that your body is in tip-top shape to fight off whatever comes floating by.

Here are five of them:

Dr. Oz is such a good listener.You know a doctor is something special when you feel better after merely shaking his hand. That's what happened to me yesterday when I had the pleasure of meeting medical superstar Dr. Mehmet Oz at a roundtable interview on the set of The Dr. Oz Show: A little eye contact, a warm handshake -- and the dull headache and nagging neck pain that were plaguing me all morning disappeared like magic.

Okay, perhaps my miraculous healing had something to do with the fact that Dr. Oz is even more handsome and charming in person than you'd expect. But only a little something.

Because in all seriousness, it was the good doc's words of wisdom that really got me buzzed. No matter what we bloggers asked, Dr. Oz had an instant, remarkably informative response. Previously mystifying physical ailments (one writer asked about psoriasis, others asked about weight loss) suddenly seemed simple, easily solved.

When I read about a new study that found that men diagnosed with breast cancer -- it's rare, but it happens -- are less likely to die from it than women, my first thought was: Ugh, how tragic it is that anyone, male or female, dies from the disease.

My second thought was -- sigh -- it figures women would have it worse than men: It seems like so many diseases and illnesses hit women harder than men.

Was that second inkling justified, I wondered? Or was it just bitterness brought on by the fact that I was -- at that very moment -- shivering under a blanket on the couch with a 102-degree fever, having caught a raging flu my 6-year-old daughter brought home from school and presented to me like a prize report card? My husband, meanwhile, had remained hale and hearty, altogether impervious to the germs coursing through our house.

I'm taking a red-eye flight home from my brother's wedding this weekend and I'm not looking forward to my slow transformation into a zombie. You know what I'm talking about: that irregular napping and neck lolling that turns you into a cranky, achy, sleep-deprived monster. 

And it doesn't help that I'll be crossing two time zones from Mountain to Eastern standard time, which is two hours ahead. That kind of double-whammy of jet lag doesn't just cause fatigue -- it can lead to other health woes like irritability, confusion, nausea, coordination problems, anxiety, and dehydration. Yeah, good times.

Deep breath! Time to get out my jet lag recovery kit ...

If you’re as celeb-obsessed as I am, any time one of them is “rushed to the hospital” (as if anyone ever “takes their sweet-ass time” going to the hospital), you suddenly turn into House. Hmm, so yesterday he was on that yacht all day with that actress drinking Champagne ... heat exhaustion! Alcohol poisoning! Mono!

So when Selena Gomez found herself in one of those paper white gowns recently, the medical diagnoses started swirling in my head. Food poisoning? The flu? Bieber Fever? (Sorry, I had to.) Turns out, the culprit was ...