Sleeping

People will go to great lengths to ensure that they have a smart and well structured exercise program, nutritional plan and supplementation regimen. Yet they often forget about or abandon their sleep and sleep quality.

Sleep is essential to health and survival. Even if you don’t eat very well, you can still expect to live around 75 years. But if you don’t sleep, you’ll likely check out in a couple of weeks the Guinness World Record for sleep deprivation is 11 days.

Sleep quantity needs vary based on age. But common rules" about how many hours of sleep an infant or a 2-year-old need might not be helpful when it comes to your own child. These numbers are simply averages reported for large groups of kids of particular ages.

There's no magical number of hours all kids need in a certain age group. Two year old girl might sleep for 12 hours, while 2 year old boy is just as alert the next day after sleeping for only 9 hours.

Still, sleep is very important to kids well being. The link between a lack of sleep and a child's behavior isn't always obvious. When adults are tired, they can be grumpy or lack energy, but kids can become hyper, disagreeable, and have extreme changes in behavior.

Although many of us may feel that work demands a lot of our attention or that we can’t get our brains to shut off, the real reason for lack of sleep is rarely long work hours or physiologic abnormalities, rather, most people lose sleep due to voluntary bedtime delay. We cut back on sleep because we choose to. We watch TV. We browse the internet. We go out with friends. This voluntary bedtime delay is something found only in modern society. The average American slept nearly 9 hours each night a century ago. If we were to remove forms of artificial stimulation and excessive work or life demands, humans would likely sleep for about 8 hours per night, based on the natural sleep or wake cycle of the brain.

In general, most healthy adults need seven to nine hours of sleep a night. However, some individuals are able to function without sleepiness or drowsiness after as little as six hours of sleeping. Others can’t perform at their peak unless they’ve slept ten hours.

Sleeping is just as important as diet and exercise.

Eighty-two percent of healthcare professionals believe that it is the responsibility of both the patient and the healthcare professional to bring up symptoms of insomnia during an appointment, Some studies show promise for the use of melatonin in shortening the time it takes to fall asleep and reducing the number of awakenings, but not necessarily total sleep time. Other studies show no benefit at all with melatonin.

People who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have bigger appetites due to the fact that their leptin levels leptin is an appetite regulating hormone fall, promoting appetite increase.

And did you know seasonal affective disorder is believed to be influenced by the changing patterns of light and darkness that occur with the approach of winter?

Six in ten healthcare professionals do not feel that they have enough time to have a discussion with their patients about insomnia during regular office visits.

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