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What You Need To Appreciate About Insomnia

By: Rudy S Silva, Nutritionist

What You Need To Appreciate About Insomnia Eight to nine hours of quality sleep are typically what most people need to avoid insomnia and maintain a healthy body.

When you don’t get the sleep, you need, your body produces excess hormones to compensate for this, which over time create disease and illness.

During the night, your body is busy digestion, repairing, rebuilding, and detoxifying your body. As you sleep, every hour each organ has it turn in rejuvenating and detoxifying itself. In addition, during REM sleep, when you dream, your mind is clearing unfinished thoughts and feelings. These feelings and dreams can be related to the previous day’s activity and can reach into your childhood experiences.

It’s best to get to bed early and get the sleep your body needs. You want to go to bed, most of the time, at the same hour every night and wake also a particular time.

When you toss and turn and wake frequently at night, you are not getting the rest you need.

This tossing is usually from stress or anxiety that you allow into your life. By reducing this stress, you can begin to have better sleep.

Insomnia Insomnia is conditions where when you wake up you feel like you have not had enough sleep and perhaps have missed out on 2 to 3 hours of sleep.

If you experience insomnia for a while, you may exhibit, 

fatigue



lack of concentration



irritability

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anxiety



increase weight



insulin resistant

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increase blood pressure

The reason that lack of sleep is so critical is that it increases your blood levels of two hormones – cortisol and ACTH. These hormones are related to other chemicals, which are inflammatory and cause degenerative diseases such as, 

Alzheimer’s

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Osteoporosis

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Neurodegenerative disorders



Cardiovascular disease



Rheumatoid arthritis



Cancer So, you want to make sure you get good sleep, unless you want to be predisposed to these and other deadly diseases.

Insomnia The actual cause of your insomnia is not a simple medical condition. Sleep issues arise

from a multitude of problems that cascade throughout your body. But, the real causes of insomnia can arise when you, 1.

Have a hormonal imbalance

2.

Have stress, anxiety, or depression

3.

Hypoglycemia

4.

Nutritional deficiencies

5.

Illnesses such as lung or heart disease

6.

Over active mind

7.

Need for recreational or prescription

8.

Excess use of caffeine, tobacco, or

alcohol 9.

Are obese

There are many things you can do to overcome insomnia.

But, the first thing you want to

avoid is to use drugs or medications you can get at a drug store. The second thing you can do is increase your exposure to sunlight. What this means go out into the sunlight during the day for up to 30 minutes.

This reduces the

production of melatonin and prepares you to release melatonin when the day starts to get darker.

A third thing to do your

is

watch home

lighting. As the evening comes to a close, and you are getting close to bedtime, you want to limit your exposure to bright home light.

This high-intensity light

delays the release of melatonin and prevents you from falling asleep quickly. Start dimming your home lights 1 to 2 hours before bed time.

There you have it three tips to help you get some better sleep. There are 12 tips that are available to make sure you get the quality sleep you need to insure you form a base for a healthy life.

What You Need To Appreciate About Insomnia

By: Rudy S Silva, Nutritionist