Sunday, June 17, 2007

Sleeping Pills Is NOT The Only Cure!!

Sleep? What was the difficulty? Just close your eyes and you’ll be fine.

If still was difficult to fall slept, just kept swallowing sleeping pills, froze!!

A piece of cake, man!!

Wait a minute..

Is it true that sleeping pills Is the only solution when you experienced the disturbance of sleep or insomnia?

Before you decided to become the user of sleep medicine, you better read this information below:

• People who use sleeping pills to cure their sleep disorder and insomnia will have significantly higher rate of death than those who do not, which is mean people who sleep normally will live longer

• Sleeping pills (even the newer generations) do little or nothing to improve chronic insomnia and cause long-term chemical dependency

• Sleeping pills reduce brain cell activity during the day, affecting short-term memory as well as causing a hangover effect

• Sleeping pills accentuate the GABA neurotransmitter, which keeps the nerve cells in the lung tissue from firing. This is why an overdose of sleeping pills will cause asphyxiation and over 1000 overdose related deaths each year

• GABA actuation is also responsible for impaired physical ability. Each year, thousands of traffic deaths, accidents and falls (especially in the elderly) are attributed to sleeping pills

• Sleep Apnea Patients should NEVER take sleeping pills. Sleeping pills increase the pauses and length of pause in breathing. Someone with sleep apnea could suffer brain or ocular damage from the lack of oxygen or even death

• Anyone over the age of 40 should be cautioned against sleeping pills, and anyone over the age of 65 should never take sleeping pills. Studies show that almost all people over 40 have some symptoms of sleep apnea, and anyone over 65 would be clinically diagnosed with sleep apnea

• Sleeping pills create a hypnotic dependency similar to alcohol and lower inhibitions and fear of pain or consequences. This is one reason why sleeping pills contribute to accidents and why chronic sleeping pill users are less likely to worry or take care of themselves

• Sleeping pills are very addictive and having common qualities with barbiturates which will very, very difficult to stop consuming

• Despite the facts that sleeping pills do not improve daytime functioning, people still prefer taking them because of the barbiturate feel-good effect they produce. As with many addictive drugs, they may not be helpful, but the patient feels good when taking them.

So, whether you were still deciding to use sleeping pills as the solution to your insomnia?

Why did not switch to other methods that were overcoming insomnia?

Or even you wanted to try natural insomnia remedy?

Friday, June 15, 2007

Types of Insomnia

There are several types of Insomnia:

• Transient (short term) insomnia lasts from a single night to a few weeks. Most people occasionally suffer from transient insomnia due to such causes as jet lag or short-term anxiety. If this form of insomnia continues to occur from time to time, the insomnia is classified as intermittent.
• Intermittent (on and off) insomnia is short term, which happens from time to time. Acute insomnia is the inability to consistently sleep well for a period of between three weeks to six months.
• Chronic (on-going) insomnia occurs at least 3 nights a week over a month or more. Chronic insomnia is regarded as the most serious; persists almost nightly for at least a month. Chronic insomnia is either primary or secondary:
• Primary insomnia is not related to any other health problem.
• Secondary insomnia can be caused by a medical condition (such as cancer, asthma, or arthritis), drugs, stress or a mental health problem (such as depression), or a poor sleep environment (such as too much light or noise, or a bed partner who snores).
• PSYCHO-REACTIVE INSOMNIA: Psycho-reactive Insomnia is generally caused by tension. It is generally worry that is keeping the person awake. The worry can become compounded when the Insomnia suffer begins to worry about falling asleep. Some people worry that they may become ill or die from lack of sleep.
• ENDOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is usually caused by a discomfort within the body ranging from pain to indigestion.
• EXOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is caused by external disturbances such as noise or a TV that is too loud. This is the easiest type of sleep disturbance to overcome.
• FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA: This is caused by a physical problem in the subject's sleep-wakefulness center in the brain.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

SLEEP

Sleep happened because of the existence hypnotoxin that hindered the brain activity, the blood circulation reduction to the brain, or the influence of the environment.

The discovery of BRAKE sleep (Rapid Eye Movement) by Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman (1953) and circadian rhytm (time sleep-get up that was inappropriate more than 24 hours) by Kleitman (1963) marked the commencement of the era of the sleep research scientifically until being formed by the Centre of the Tidur Research that was first in the USA in 1972.

Although the function of sleep until this was not yet known fully, could be concluded that sleep was the active process, not only rested the brain and the physical activity.

While sleeping, energy or unsure the brain and the body that while getting up was used, it was suspected will be restored.

Whereas toxin that was gathered while getting up was neutralised or thrown away when sleeping.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Insomnia: An Introduction

A person who is unable to fall asleep as well as cannot stay asleep for rational length of time is assumed to be suffering from insomnia. One who suffers from insomnia usually complains about their disability to close their eyes and feels anxious, at least in a short-range period. Insomnia is a kind of sleep disorder that can be organic as well as non-organic and is the result of fear, anxiety, stress, herbs, medications, depression and caffeine as well as for other unknown reasons. Insomnia may also be caused by an overactive mind or physical pain.

In short, insomnia is poor-quality sleep that caused by one or more of the following:

* Having trouble to falling asleep

* Often woke up during the night with having trouble returning to sleep

* Waking up before the scheduled time in the morning

* Not feeling well rested after waking up, even after sleeping 7 to 8 hours at night

Insomnia can generate various problems, for example is immoderate drowsiness, exhaust, energy levels reduced, trouble to staying focused, and looses concentration or feeling depressed. That’s why driving and operating machinery is very dangerous for insomniacs. Families, friends and colleagues find it very difficult to deal with someone who has not had a quality sleep. It could leads to emotional problems and depression. When suffering from serious insomnia and sleepless nights for long time, people can even experience delusions. Even losing sleep a few nights a week can significantly weaken your ability to function and decrease the quality of your life. Therefore, it is very important that you find your cause of insomnia and an insomnia cure as soon as possible.

Remember, insomnia is not defined by the number of hours you sleep every night. Although the amount of sleep a person needs varies, most people need between 7 and 8 hours of sleep a night.