Magic Of Good Sleep

 December 13, 2010

Interview with Dr. James Maas, author of the book Sleep for Success: Everything You Must Know About Sleep but Are too Tired to Ask

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Mike Carruthers:
Not getting enough sleep is perhaps a bigger problem than you realize.

Dr. James Maas:
When you don’t get enough sleep you heighten your risk for hypertension, heart attacks and strokes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, skin problems and even cancer.
 

Sleep expert Dr. James Maas, author of the book Sleep for Success

For example blind women have 50% less breast cancer than sighted women. Why is that? Blind women spend their life in the dark, it’s not until you turn off the lights that melatonin gets secreted in your brain to put you to sleep. If you suppress the secretion of melatonin by staying in the light, estrogen levels skyrocket. And with sky rocketing estrogen levels comes that awful correlate of breast cancer.

Lack of sleep makes you drowsy and driving when you’re drowsy is really dangerous.

One drink on 6 hours of sleep, which is what the average person is getting these days, in terms of your ability to drive is the same thing as 6 drinks on 8 hours of sleep. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

Watching TV or being on the computer can also be a problem.

Because all of these monitors and computer screens, the internet - whatever - display a lot of blue wavelength daylight spectrum lighting, which is a stimulant and it doesn’t get you ready for bed.

To hear the complete unedited interview, click here