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    Sleep Comfy Now: Fix Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, and Find Rest
    Sleep Comfy Now: Fix Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, and Find Rest
    Sleep Comfy Now: Fix Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, and Find Rest
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    Sleep Comfy Now: Fix Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, and Find Rest

    By Ashley Dawnson

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    About this ebook

    Do you struggle with insomnia or any other sleeping disorder?
    Do you sleep, but feel fatigued, tired and have no energy to carry out your daily routines?

    Inside this course you will discover deeper insights to sleep to help you understand how to achieve the best restorative sleep possible.
    This is not some magic pill, however, my aim is to help you understand the deeper mechanisms and influences responsible for promoting sleep, and things you may be inadvertently doing that is causing you to lose countless hours of precious sleep.
    Everyone deserves a good night's sleep! - So, why can't you?


    What You'll Learn


    What is sleep?


    Sleep-wake cycles


    Insomnia


    Solutions


    Importance of proper "sleep hygiene"


    Sleep equipment


    Truth about daylight savings


    And, much, much more!



    If you're tired of your morning grogginess and want to wake up feeling refreshed, energized and rejuvenated to take on the day, then look no further and enroll into this course.
    Sleep is such an undervalued and underappreciated aspect of life, we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping and we ALL participate in it, thus, wouldn't it make sense to have an understanding of sleep in order to maximized our overall health and quality of life?
    Think about it?
    Therefore, if you want optimal sleep and maximize your restorative sleep potential to achieve better quality sleep then you need to understand sleep on a deeper level and the various influences revolving around it.
     

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJul 20, 2020
    Sleep Comfy Now: Fix Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, and Find Rest

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      Sleep Comfy Now - Ashley Dawnson

      Medication

      Chapter 1: What Sleep is about

      Sleep is a state of the body that everyone gets into for a number of hours every day, usually at night. When a person is in that state, the nervous system is dormant, eyes are closed, and the postural muscles are relaxed.

      Also, the person’s consciousness during that period is effectively suspended.  

      That condition – sleep – is crucial to the everyday routine of a person. In fact, on average, a person spends a third of the day asleep, and it is important that the sleep one enjoys is of good quality. This means getting sufficient sleep at the appropriate time.

      Sleep is a necessity just like food, water, and other basic requirements of life. If you continually fail to get sufficient sleep, the brain is adversely affected in a way that the pathways that facilitate creation of fresh memories are interfered with.

      Hence it becomes difficult for you to concentrate. Your response time to external stimuli also becomes delayed.

      Sleep-related Physiology

      Sleep helps to enhance different functions of the brain. This includes how neurons communicate amongst themselves.

      A neuron is the brain’s tiniest functional unit, a cell that is specially designed to communicate information to different cells of the nervous system and even to those of the glands and muscles.

      In fact, although you are in a semi-conscious state when asleep, your body remains active alongside your brain, during which time any toxins that build up in your brain during the day are cleared.

      While not everything about sleep’s biological function is known, it is evident it has an effect on the systems of the body; the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, body metabolism, and others.

      Research has shown that people who perennially get sleep of poor-quality face a greater risk of developing health disorders such as elevated blood pressure, diabetes, ailments of a cardiovascular nature, depression, and even obesity.

      According to one expert at the University of Toronto, John Peever, and another one from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Brian J.Murray, sleep plays an important role in helping the body to re-energize its cells and eliminate waste from within the brain.

      These experts also reckon that sleep enhances a person’s memory and capacity to learn, in addition to regulating the person’s appetite, mood, and even libido. 

      Scientists have established that there are two types of sleep, one of them referred to as SWS, and the other REM.

      The former, which is Slow Wave Sleep, is also termed "deep sleep". The latter stands for Rapid Eye Movement and is also referred to as "dreaming sleep".

      Most of the time the moment people fall asleep they experience the SWS kind of sleep, which means at that time their brain is operating in big, slow waves as the body relaxes.

      In the meantime, their breathing becomes deep, and that helps the brain and also the body to rebuild its strength following a long day of activity.

      This recuperating process is crucial in enabling the person to be in shape to handle the following day’s activities. The process of sleep is very complex and also dynamic, and it affects the way you feel and function.

      In this chapter you will discover how sleep is naturally regulated, and what transpires within the brain as you sleep.

      Sleep Anatomy

      Among the brain structures involved in the process of sleep are the hypothalamus, brain stem, thalamus, pineal gland, basal forebrain, and the amygdale.

      The hypothalamus

      The hypothalamus is found deep within the brain, and its size is that of a peanut. It hosts nerve cells that are set in groups, which function as sleep control centers.

      There are also some cell clusters known as SCN or Suprachiasmatic nucleus inside the hypothalamus, each of them with cells in the thousands. They act as information receptors that detect the light the eyes are exposed to.

      The SCN is responsible for the control of the circadian rhythms, which is the sleeping-waking routine that corresponds to the night and day times.

      There are cases where people have damaged SCN, and as a result their sleeping patterns become erratic. The reason for such sleeping inconsistencies is that such people’s circadian rhythms are not in tandem with the cycle of light and darkness.

      Many people who are visually impaired are still able to sense light, and hence they have capacity to modify their cycles of sleeping and waking up.

      Brain Stem

      A person’s brain stem is at the bottom of the brain, and its role is to maintain communication with the hypothalamus to ensure the waking-sleeping transitions are under control.

      This part of the brain is inclusive of some structures known as pons, midbrain, and medulla.

      The cells inside the brain’s hypothalamus and brain stem are responsible for promotion of sleep. They release some brain chemical known as GABA, which ends up reducing a person’s arousal activity within these brain structures.

      A person’s brain stem, and particularly the medulla and pons, plays a particularly important role in the REM or Rapid Eye Movement sleep.

      It signals the muscles responsible for proper posture of the body and movement of limbs to relax, so that one does not end up physically acting out his/her dreams.

      The Thalamus

      The thalamus is responsible for relaying information originating from the body senses right to the brain’s cerebral cortex.

      The cerebral cortex is that coating the brain has that is charged with interpreting and processing of information, so that it is converted from short-term to long-term memory.

      Over sleep’s several stages, the brain’s thalamus remains quiet, so that you are able to shut out the external occurrences or the activities going on around you.

      Nevertheless, the thalamus gets active in the REM sleep, as it sends out images and sounds as well as different sensations that end up filling one’s dreams.

      Pineal Gland

      There is a part of the pineal gland in either of the two hemispheres of the brain.

      This gland is a receptor of signals sent from the SCN or Suprachiasmatic nucleus, and its activity raises the production level of melatonin.

      Melatonin is a hormone that enables one to sleep after lights have been turned off.

      People whose sight is gravely impaired and are therefore unable to have a proper wake-sleep routine the natural way can improve their situation if they take small doses of melatonin at a fixed time every day, such as supplements containing this naturally occurring ingredient.

      Basal Forebrain

      This structure is found close to the front of the brain and also close to its bottom region. It is responsible for promotion of sleep as well as wakefulness.

      Meanwhile, a section of a person’s midbrain serves as his/her arousal system.

      A person’s sleep drive is supported by the discharge of a chemical known as adenosine, which is a by-product of the process of cellular energy consumption.

      The chemical is released from various cells mainly within the basal forebrain.

      The reason caffeine is known to counteract sleepiness is that it blocks the activity of the adenosine.

      Amygdala

      The brain’s structure known as amygdala has an almond shape, and its role is to process emotions.

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