Lack of sleep

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Sleep is crucial to feel your best, look your best and perform at your best — every day. A lack of sleep can result in various problems, including decreased productivity, creativity and focus. However,  a continuous lack of sleep can lead to more serious health issues.

Pretty much everybody can be affected by lack of sleep. However, some recent studies showed that it is more common in women (particularly after menopause) and older men, above the age of 60. It seems that as the older we get, the less we are able to sleep – even when we really want to. Read the rest of this entry »

There is no single cause for lack of sleep. Some people have a chronic illness which causes it and they actually know it, because they are under doctor’s care. However for the rest of us, the ‘regular’ folks, it’s a bit hard to pinpoint it, what is the one thing that causes insomnia. Well, recent research has found that there are at least 5 major triggers that can cause insomnia, and they can be either singular triggers, or a combination of several. Read the rest of this entry »

What are natural sleep remedies?

The fight with lack of sleep can really leave you drained and exhausted. The first thing most people do at this time is popping some sleeping pills just to be able to close their eyes for a few hours.

Medical researched has recently shown that is the wrong approach. Yes, for the short term it might work, however if continued, the side-effects are worse. You can pop a pill if your lack of sleep is due to something ‘once off’, like a particular problem that you’re struggling with, and your sleep returns to normal after a few hard nights. However it is easy to discern between true lack of sleep and a sporadic change in your life that warrants that acute insomnia.

If you do notice that your lack of sleep is returning, or not going away, sleeping pills are not the solution here. They mostly treat the symptom, but don’t tackle the cause of your insomnia. So why don’t you, instead, go to the root of the problem, or make some lifestyle changes that will help you regain your sleep the natural way?

Natural sleep remedies are a mix, a combination of dietary, lifestyle and activity changes, which combined with natural, homeopathic remedies, will cure your lack of sleep for good. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve read recently a short study (wish I remembered where it was) about the relation between lack of sleep, or insomnia, and the rich, vs. the poor.

Although common sense would seem to point out that the poor are mostly suffering from lack of sleep, due to their financial and living problems, the study showed that the situation might be just opposite to this.

It seems that the wealthier a person is, the better chances to become an insomniac.
Apparently it is remarkable how little complains one hears in hospitals from the poorer classes.
One of the results the study came to was that one reason for this poor vs rich shift is that poor are less haunted by such problems as overfeeding, inertia, idleness, self-absorption and ennui.

Lack of sleep in one form or another,  accompanies nearly every illness, but it occurs also in entirely healthy people. In the majority of cases it is a state of mind originated in fear and apprehension. Frequently, however, it can also have an immediate physical cause, such as indigestion, or toothache.

Maybe one of the most acute problems that cause insomnia is indigestion. People often ignore it, thus failing to cure their lack of sleep right from the start. Read the rest of this entry »

There are various behavioral techniques that promise to treat lack of sleep, such as relaxation therapy, sleep restriction therapy and reconditioning. Here is a brief overview of these three techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

100 million Americans suffer from a lack of sleep each year.

LACK OF SLEEP – - A Chinese herbal prescription.
You don’t know how much you’re missing if you cannot sleep well, because sleep is the simplest pleasure of life. The lack of sleep also affects other simple pleasures like eating and energetic activities. Consequently, treating your sleep problem should be a high priority.

If you usually sleep only a few hours a night, it doesn’t mean that you have a lack of sleep. People usually vary in their need for sleep. Insomnia may cause problems during the day, such as tiredness, a lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, and irritability.

There are certain conditions which seem to make people more likely to experience a lack of sleep, among others:

• old age (insomnia occurs more frequently in those over age 60)
• women
• people with a history of depression

Take these and add to them stress, anxiety, a medical problem, or the use of certain medications, and you have a ready made recipe for lack of sleep.

By themselves there are many direct causes of a person experiencing transient (for a short period of time_ and intermittent (on and off) lack of sleep.

• stress
• environmental noise
• extreme temperature
• change in the surrounding environment
• sleep/wake schedule problems such as those due to jet lag
• medication side effects

If you’re having a chronic insomnia, the causes are more complex, resulting from a mix of factors including some physical or mental disorders, such as depression.

Other underlying causes include arthritis, kidney disease, heart failure, asthma, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs
syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, and hyperthyroidism. However, chronic lack of sleep, or insomnia, may also be due to behavioral factors, such as misuse of caffeine, alcohol, or other substances; disrupted sleep/wake cycles as may
occur with shift work or other nighttime activity schedules; and chronic stress.

There are some additional behaviours that enforce the lack of sleep symptoms in people, such as:

• expecting to have difficulty sleeping and worrying about it
• ingesting excessive amounts caffeine
• drinking alcohol before bedtime
• smoking cigarettes before bedtime
• excessive napping in the afternoon or evening
• irregular or continually disrupted sleep/wake schedules

As you can see, these behaviors may prolong existing lack of sleep, and they can also be responsible for causing the sleeping problem in the first place. As I mentioned before, stopping these behaviors may eliminate your lack of sleep altogether.