Mike
Carruthers:
If you're a good sleeper you're in the minority.
Dr. Barry
Krakow:
More than sixty percent of adults complain of either difficulty
falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep or difficulty with
their sleep not really feeling that good of quality - that's
two out of three people.
Dr. Barry Krakow,
author of the book Sound
Sleep Sound Mind…
And I am persuaded
that sleep problems have gotten worse in our society for many
many different reasons. One of them is the way we manage our
emotions in today's society - some people like to use the word
stress and sooner or later it produces insomnia in a lot of
people.
Sleep-breathing
problems are another cause of insomnia.
One of the fastest
ways to know whether or not you have a sleep-breathing problem
is to assess whether or not or how often you wake up to use
the bathroom because amazingly the two are linked. It turns
out that when you have a sleep-breathing problem it pushes fluid
into the right side of the heart that is abnormal. And the right
side of the heart - detects this problem and releases a diuretic
into the blood stream.
People often
believe they wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom
because they think…
"I drink
too much water, I have a prostate problem, my bladder is small,
it's a medication side effect" and the reality is (the
hard science is) that the person really is waking up at night
to urinate because they have a sleep-breathing problem.
Tomorrow ways
to help sleep-breathing problems - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's
Something You Should Know.
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