The refreshing sleep performs important functions for our mind and body. However, there are people for whom bedtime is far from being a pleasant and refreshing experience it becomes a daily struggle with insomnia and other sleep problems. Millions of people can not enjoy a full day, alert and productive because they could not sleep last night.
In 1959, Peter Tripp, a New York broadcaster, decided to stay awake as long as he could. After four sleepless nights began to have trouble remembering the alphabet, then began to hallucinate. He saw their shoes full of cobwebs, bugs on their desk and even a rabbit non-existent in the corner. Your mental concentration is affected and became paranoid; believing that their co-workers like doctors and nurses who kept his health conspired to harm him. The most interesting is that despite everything, every night Tripp for three hours I could get rid of your paranoia, hallucinations and lack of concentration, to convey his radio program. Tripp During this time struck the hour, commercial read, conversed with the audience and gave the report of time in an apparently normal. Although, as we have seen, in their daily conduct Tripp showed signs of a serious mental disturbance, somehow managed to overcome at times just enough time to do their duty. Just before the transmission the last program did during that period Tripp suffered a panic attack. Thinking that the doctor came to bury him alive began to scream and attack anyone who find in between. But the hour of his program became calm and achievements do the same without any of those listening would suspect that the condition was. After that Tripp left her marathon program and eventually retired.
Although not as dramatic, many people who do not sleep enough are somehow acting as Tripp. When you need something we do not sleep in our mind is affected and continues to function even if it costs us more and more work. The American writer Vince Raus as he says about for years suffered from a problem of insomnia:
I wake up sore and tired to spend the day with the brain fog. It takes me at least three attempts on you can dial a long distance number. I forget the names of the people. Eat coffee trays. And I look like hell.
According to statistics from the National Center for Research on Sleep Disorders in the U.S. only about 40 million people suffer from sleep problems. These problems result in low productivity, cognitive problems, and increased chance of accidents, irritability, and increased risk of disease, premature death and decreased quality of life. Studies show that people who sleep well are not negatively affect the immune system that is responsible for fighting viruses and bacteria that cause our illnesses.
Some researchers have also concluded that sleep acts as an antioxidant by removing what is known as free radicals, ie atoms, usually oxygen, highly reactive and unstable to be released as a product of metabolism and have the ability to damage cells. It is estimated that chronic sleep deprivation may accelerate the aging brain.
The problem of lack of sleep is heightened as a result of technological changes and the world of work that cause many people to work until late at night or on rotating schedules. Our biological characteristics, the product of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution have programmed us to need between nine and ten hours of sleep everyday. In our era of technological changes are occurring at a rate much faster than our biology so we end up doing to our body demands unprepared to assume.
Do you have Insomnia?
Of sleep problems insomnia is probably the most common. There are several types of insomnia. In some cases the person has difficulty falling asleep, in others the person may fall asleep easily but wake several times during the night, and in other cases the problem is that the person wakes up very early. Insomnia may be caused by a variety of factors, which include stress, excessive alcohol or caffeine, and several physiological disorders. Insomnia can be a real problem and often frustrating the efforts we make to sleep only aggravate the situation.
How many hours of sleep we need? The amount that allows us to feel alert during the day. This varies from person to person, but in most cases, between 7 and 9 hours. In a study conducted in the United States late 1997 and early 1998 found that nearly a third of people sleep six or fewer hours per day and over a third said that during the day feel so sleepy that his daily activities are affected.Posted byNatural Home Remediesat11:17 AM
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