Here is a gift you can give yourself or any friend who you know is suffering from sleep deprivation or even insomnia. The Harmonic Sleep CD from Sound Health Products does offer the usual soothing sounds to make you sleep but features subliminal “harmonics” that are said to encourage slow, relaxing sleep waves in the brain even though they are too faint to hear. Alternatively, the Delta Sleep System CD contains tones that supposedly match the frequency of delta sleep waves, in theory cuing the brain to make sleep waves of its own.

Both CDs are sold at various sites online. The Harmonic Sleep CD sells for about $20. A two-CD set of the Delta Sleep System also costs about $20.

(Source) LA Times

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Sleep deprived people who rely heavily on melatonin may want to change their reliance on such pills. Though they may help, the question is how long. And if you want something better to act as a substitute, here is one called a Melatonin Skin Patch which can aid you even better.

The patch may be more effective than melatonin pills because oral melatonin wears off quickly while the dose from the patch lasts longer. The study, published this week in the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, only involved eight people. They were given a patch containing either 2.1 milligrams of melatonin or no drug. The researchers measured their sleep performance and the melatonin levels in their blood.

“And, importantly, melatonin levels rose gradually, such that the peak concentration occurred in the early evening, during the latter part of the bed rest. We know — and shift workers know — that this is a time during which it is particularly difficult to remain asleep,” Aeschbach said in a news release.

(Source) LA Times

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