Mike
Carruthers:
More than sixty percent of adults have trouble sleeping well and
people who don't sleep well suffer from problems above and beyond
just being sleepy during the day.
Dr. Barry
Krakow:
Many people who have sleep problems are very prone to injury
and accidents because they make mistakes all the time - they
lose physical coordination.
Dr. Barry Krakow,
author of the book Sound
Sleep Sound Mind, says it isn't just about getting enough
hours of sleep, it's about getting quality sleep and there's
a long list of sleep-breathing problems that can cause poor
sleep.
The common denominator
is that these breathing problems cause awakenings and arousals
of the brain while you're trying to sleep; so that you're actually
waking up three hundred times in a night and yet you may remember
one awakening and naturally of course if you do wake up three
hundred times you should be pretty tired the next day.
If you do have
sleep-breathing problems…
You can start
with simple things like treating conditions such as allergies
using nasal sprays for example nasal steroids, using nasal strips
- doing things to make your nose work better clearly improves
the way you breathe at night.
And here is how
you tell if you're a good sleeper…
A good sleeper
is somebody who gets into bed and goes to sleep - they sleep
all night long and in the morning they feel great, they've got
plenty of energy all day long, they don't take naps.
You can link
to Dr. Krakow's website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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