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Sweet Dreams for a Sweet Sleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 13th, 2007 in How to sleep better, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
If you sleep well, chances are you will dream well too. Sleep problems have been facing most people in more cases than one. There are a lot of factors that include work or becoming a habit. While these are factors that cannot be avoided especially in these times and pressured needs, people just have to be aware that health is equally important.
Our brain needs to rest and exercise. During sleep, there is a portion of our brain which is unused which is exercised. This is the work of dreams where our subconscious selves go to work.
For health reasons, people with less sleep are more prone to illnesses and related problems such as heart diseases. Productivity is one thing but without health to support it, you may as well sign your death sentence.
(Source) Your brain needs sleep because it exercises the parts of the brain you don’t normally use. Your body needs that downtime to repair and refresh its systems. When people don’t sleep for three or more days, they sometimes become psychotic.
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Body Clock Switched On with Amino Acids
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 12th, 2007 in How to sleep better, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
One thing that most people have to deal with these days is adjusting to various shifts that normally pertain to work. This issue is perhaps present in people who work in call centers which at times require graveyard shifts. People who work in the early mornings need to adjust accordingly their sleeping habits to be up and awake during the required shifts.
Protein in amino acids has been tagged to help regulate the body clock when it is adjusting to sleep patterns. In the call to use sleeping drugs to treat sleep disorders, hopefully this will be pretty much helpful to people suffering from various sleep disorders.
(Source) Researchers say they have identified the chemical switch that controls the genetic mechanism regulating people’s internal body clocks.
Although the process involves complex genes, the whole mechanism is controlled by a single amino acid - a building block of protein - they say.
It is hoped the discovery may lead to more effective drugs to treat sleep disorders and related ailments.
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Insomnia Will Haunt You For Life
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 3rd, 2007 in Insomnia, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
Insomnia is something that most of us have encountered at some point in our lives. But while some have found ways to battle this serious sleeping problem for most, there are some who will carry this up to the time they grow older. In fact, it can either become a hereditary or traditional practice and it is best to check on the sleep facts surrounding it.
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It’s impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it. A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year One of the best predictors of insomnia later in life is the development of bad habits from having sleep disturbed by young children. A night on the grog will help you get to sleep but it will be a light slumber and you won’t dream much.
Take a look at these sleep facts. We all know that we will or have already encountered them at one point in our lives. So how does one handle the transition and control Insomnia.
For the people who have already controlled the habit, then my hats off to you guys. But for the ones suffering Insomnia and may considerably getting worse, any tip will surely be a big help.
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Sleeping on Ice
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 1st, 2007 in SLEEP News, Sleep Issues, Sleeping Pills.
We are all aware that a lot of people rely heavily on sleeping pills. Now we all know a lot of these pill put into the market today, but there has to be a distinguishing factor as to which are ideal and which are dangerous. Some of these pill may reach a point of becoming addictive and chances are people would likely have more than just sleep problems to worry about.
It should be remembered, sleep problems can be treated but pairing it with a drug-related problem such as reliance on methamphetamine hydrochloride or Modafinil, may produce more problems than results.
(Source)”What ice, or crystal, does is it actually hooks into your reward system in the brain, and the reward system is designed so that you can recognise positive stimuli, remember them, act on them,” he said.
“But by overdoing it, by chronic use, you end up with a depletion of these neurotransmitters.”
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Time Management and Sleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 27th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Issues.
Who knows what time it is in your region? For all you know, upon reading this, you should be in bed. But rather than laying down, you find yourself exploring the web for anything that may be of interest to you. Sometimes, it is a way of making you sleepy.
After a hyperactive day, chances are you may be wondering of the things that had transpired. It could be about work, about a special person or something about family. Anything can keep you up thinking or even get your working.
But sleep is something you really cannot force on yourself. There is the thing called time management to which our body clocks work on. Foregoing them may prove to be risky for health reasons. Also, whatever enthusiasm you have in your body may soon go away. It is still best to keep emotions in check and get back to your senses.
Read more: Have you forgotten how to remember?
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