Millions of middle-aged adults and older who suffer from insomnia have a new prescription for drug-free sleep. Regular aerobic exercise improves sleep quality, mood and vitality, for a small but important new study by Northern and Western medicine. The study is the first to examine the effect of endurance training on middle-aged adults and older with a diagnosis of sleep disorders. About 50 percent of people in these age groups have complained of symptoms of chronic insomnia.

The study aerobic, patients have reported a dramatic improvement in sleep quality, sleep duration compared to other non-pharmacological intervention.

“That applies to much of the population,” said Phyllis Zee, MD, director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Northwestern and lead author of an article in the October issue of Sleep Medicine. The lead author Kathryn Reid, assistant professor at Feinberg.

“Insomnia increases with age,” said Zee. “Around middle age, begins to change radically from sleeping. It is important that we find ways of behavior to improve sleep. We have now to show promising results, aerobics is a simple strategy for helping people sleep better and feel strongly. ”

The strategy without drug is also undesirable because it may be the possibility of a sleeping pill interact with other medications a person under the removed, Reid said

Sleep is an essential element of a healthy lifestyle such as diet and exercise, noted Zee, professor of neurology, neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Read The Full Story…

Sleep apnea is a disorder that affects breathing during sleep.  Apnea is a Greek word meaning “want of breath.”
Sleep apnea is a chronic condition and is also a progressive disease which means they may worsen with time.
These pauses in breathing can be anywhere from a minimum of ten to 30 seconds or more, no less than four hundred pounds per night in those with severe sleep apnea. Some are provided they are almost every 30 seconds, wakes up with another episode of apnea tormented.

Sleep apnea is still very poorly understood by the medical community, although research is ongoing. There are many people who know they are themselves suffering from sleep apnea. Sometimes you have a spouse, family member or close friend to bring the problem to the individual note.

Sleep apnea is a serious health problem that can be life threatening if not diagnosed and untreated. There are three types of obstructive sleep apnea, central and mixed with obstructive sleep apnea is most common by far.

Obstructive sleep apnea can be mild, moderate or severe. It can easily go from mild to moderate or moderate to severe. Sleep apnea is not “age” and individuals of all ages, including children.

Men and women to develop sleep apnea, although more common in men than women, mostly middle-aged men who are overweight. Part of this thinking that because men have a neck thicker than women. Read The Full Story…

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need 8 hours of sleep to function properly during the day. It’s a crazy media hype recently told people that America deprived of sleep, and we should all 8 hours of sleep, blah blah blah. This absolute nonsense, and not a sleep expert would agree.

There are many people in today’s world, the extraordinary commitment and physically

mentally demanding tasks and sleep for only 4-6 hours per night. Are these people living zombies? Or did they somehow, consciously or unconsciously take advantage of

hidden power, a system running this way, it? A good example of a person as someone who is in a racing crew transatlantic yachts.

The crew takes shifts in the head and is on deck and had to fight hard Weather, poor eating, movement, and drastic temperature

Changes to a maximum of 3 months! At this time each crew member sleeps about 4-5 hours

per shift, and has no trouble making the most mentally and physically difficult tasks of a yacht, the fight against waves of 30 feet, sail trim, and focus on keeping the boat on course.

There are also many other people around the world, will not, yachts or perform outrageously physically demanding tasks, but they also have very little sleep. Independent their “sleep deprivation”, they keep hitting, energetic and full of life. Gab these people are born with this ability, or do they make a conscious/ Level of the unconscious

General Statistics about Sleep:

- Adults need an average of 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep each night

- Sleep problems add an estimated $15.9 billion to national health care costs

- 84 classifications of sleep disorders exist now

- Over half of those over the age of 65 experience disturbed sleep

- Those over 65 make up about 13% of the US population, but consume over 30% of prescription drug and 40% of sleeping pills list.

Women Sleep Statistics

- Women are twice as likely as men to have difficulty falling and staying asleep

- Pregnancy can get worse sleep patterns

- Menopause and hormone changes, cause bad changes in sleep

Children Sleep Statistics

- Over 2 million on USA children suffer from sleep disorders

- Estimated that 30 to 40% of children to not sleep enough

- Children require an average of 9 to 10 hours of sleep each night Read The Full Story…

Sleep and smoking Statistics

- In general, in 2004-2006, about 21% of U.S. adults were current cigarette smokers. Percents varied according to usual hours of sleep, and were lowest among adults who slept 7 to 8 hours (18%) and higher among adults who slept less than 6 hours (31%) or 9 hours or more (26%) For both men and women, smoking prevalence was substantially higher among those who slept less than 6 hours than among men and women who slept 7 to 8 hours. Of the age groups studied, the association between hours of sleep and cigarette smoking was most notable for younger adults. Adults aged 18-44 years who slept less than 6 hours were more likely to be current smokers (38%) than adults in the same age group who slept 7 to 8 hours (21%). Variations by race and ethnicity were also found. Non-Hispanic white adults who slept less than 6 hours were more likely to be current smokers (34%) than non-Hispanic white adults who slept 7 to 8 hours (20%). Results for Hispanic adults also revealed higher smoking prevalence among those who slept less than 6 hours (19%) compared with those who slept 7 to 8 hours (13%) but the difference was smaller than for non-Hispanic white adults. Read The Full Story…

General Sleep Statistics:

- Up to 15% of people are Sleepwalking.

- about 15% of people have restless leg syndrome

- Vehicular crashes are the third leading cause of death and injury in the

USA, and up to 20% of them are sleep related

- Untreated sleep apnea causes 500,000 motor vehicle crashes annually

- One in 20 men has sleep apnea

- Seizures occur more commonly during sleep than during waking hours

- Many tranquilizers actually decrease deeper stages of sleep that are

required for the restoration and fresh feeling in the morning

- Sleep loss of four hours is equivalent to being drunk with a blood alcohol

level of 0.1%

- One-third of young adults are pathologically sleepy during the day

- Sleep problems add an estimated $15.9 billion to national health care costs

• sources: Sleep Disorders Center study.

Insomnia Statistics

- 20-40% of all adults have insomnia in the course of any year

- 1 out of 3 people have insomnia at some point in their lives

- Over 70 million Americans suffer from disorders of sleep and wakefulness

- Of those, 60% have a chronic disorder Read The Full Story…