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Proven Fact:
Sleep Loss Makes You Leave This Planet Sooner...
Are you always tired? Lack of sleep can literally kill you . . . .
The annual fishing trip was fast approaching. There was an anxious feeling growing in the pit of Randy’s stomach. He was feeling apprehensive and worried and he was considering cancelling on the guys altogether. Randy has a snoring problem and he is aware his snoring isn’t normal. It is unusually and abnormally loud and disturbing. He knows the teasing is good natured and they don’t mean any harm but that doesn’t ease Randy’s embarrassment. He just doesn’t want to be the joke of the trip; that guy they all make fun of.
In addition to the snoring, which is a major nuisance, Randy also wakes up extremely tired each and every morning. Not just on occasion or after an exceptionally late night – but each and every morning he greets the day unmotivated, sluggish and dragging his butt through the day. At 42 years old, Randy feels and looks a lot older than he really is.
We have all teased a person that snores and have probably re-counted a good ole snoring story. As some point, we have all laughed at someone’s snoring story. What isn’t all that funny are the destructive consequences snoring can have on your health. When you snore and don’t get adequate sleep, there are health implications that can run the scale from annoying to life-threatening.
Sleep disorders such as snoring, sleep apnea and insomnia can increase your risk of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke. They can be the cause of major accidents and serious illness. Statistics show that sleep apnea sufferers are more than 300% more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash.
A snorer compromises their overall sleep quality and can increase their chance of suffering a heart attack by over 50%. The added stress and strain that comes with lack of sleep can trigger illness, depression, mental disorders, disease and numerous other physical outcomes.
We have laughed at someone’s snoring story or even been the butt of the joke. A separate instance or situation can be funny. However, if you or someone you love has a snoring ‘problem’ and snores consistently - coupled with always battling fatigue throughout the day, it could end in serious health complications or even death. That is no laughing matter.
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Heart Attacks. Diabetes. Depression. . .
all linked to sleep loss.
Your health could be in serious jeopardy.
Serious health problems, even death, can result from what you would deem a simple snoring problem. Now, that doesn’t seem very simple, does it?
Your body requires sleep. It requires food and water and air to breathe. And it requires proper, adequate sleep. It is imperative that every single day, your body has the opportunity to rejuvenate itself. Time to repair the damage it sustains throughout your waking hours.
All through the day, stress accumulates throughout your body and particularly, on your heart. When you sleep at night, your body is taking the time it needs to rest, slow your heart down and begin the de-stressing period. It decompresses and slowly relieves the stress and strain it has gathered during the day. Your body needs time to recover. Time to revitalize itself. Your blood pressure decreases and the pace of age-related diseases begin to normalize and slow down. Through sleep alone, your body can control such diseases as diabetes, hypertension, memory loss and obesity.
When your body lacks sleep it places a huge amount of added stress and strain on your heart muscle. Cardiovascular disease, strokes, heart attacks and in critical situations – even death – have all been linked to sleep deprivation. Persistent sleep loss hampers your body’s ability to execute even basic metabolic functions, including normalizing your hormones.
Snoring is often times a prelude to a more severe condition knows as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is defined as an obstruction in your breathing airway and leaves you gasping for air continually throughout the night. Most people suffering from sleep apnea don’t even know they have it and that’s what makes it so dangerous. The airway obstruction stops adequate oxygen from getting to the lungs and this additional strain on the body contributes to an increase in heart disease. Apnea sufferers experience an increase in blood pressure which can lead to heart disease, heart attacks and strokes.
Grave health concerns and even an untimely death can result from sleep deficiencies. Not getting enough sleep each and every night negatively impacts your brain function which in turn elevates your stress hormones and can lead to depression.
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Lack of sleep increases your appetite, your waistline and your pant size!
A perfect world scenario? We would go to bed at night and we would wake up lighter in the morning. Nothing more to it than that. No counting calories or weighing food. No supplements or magic pills. No exercise routines and strenuous workouts. Just go to sleep and wake up thinner . . .
Hold on! It may sound like a dream but the truth is – a good night’s sleep can aid you in your weight loss goals.
Reports have proven that people who get good quality, frequent sleep – tend to weigh less. It goes on to state there is a definite correlation between good sleep and good health. When you lack adequate sleep, your body produces distorted quantities of a hormone known to control hunger. When this hormone is altered, your appetite increases and you tend to crave high calorie foods.
It’s well documented that sleep affects your hormones, your mood and your appetite. When your body lacks sleep, you are more likely to crave and indulge your craving for “comfort foods”. You are more likely to reach for candy, chips, chocolate and cake instead of reaching for carrot sticks and salad.
Immediately following your indulgence in these foods, you may feel like your energy level has increased. What you will also notice is how quickly you will feel hungry again. The truth is, you are actually tired – you aren’t really hungry. You are substituting food for sleep. Your sleep deprived self will not just make poor food choices but it will make those choices more often.
When you are tired, you are more prone to emotional eating. You are less resistant to stress and that stress triggers eating. In addition, when you are tired you will use food to keep you awake. Your body isn’t craving food, it’s craving sleep but in your exhausted state you don’t recognize this.
A perfect world scenario? You can go to bed at night and simply monitor your waist line with a good night’s sleep. Sleep deprivation increases your appetite and increases your pant size. Anyone raiding their refrigerator at 2:00 a.m. can attest to that!
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Anti-depressants may be related to the rise of sleeping disorders.
People with sleeping disorders are more apt to developing depression.
Everyone, at some point in time, has felt a little down in the dumps. You have felt a little blue and just didn’t want to face the day. Encountering these feelings on occasion is normal and everyone experiences it. When these feelings of sadness are prolonged - it can be the early stages of depression. Depression lasts for extended periods, intensifies your feelings of sadness and prohibits you from leading a normal life.
Lack of sleep on its own doesn’t cause depression but it does play a significant role. Not getting enough shut eye can magnify your existing depression by disturbing your normal, daily routine and upsetting your personal, professional and social life.
Based on numerous reports, people who suffer from sleep problems are more likely to develop depression. The risk of developing depression is directly linked to the severity of the sleep disorder. Reports show that people with depression are five times (5x) more likely to suffer from a sleep disorder.
Link established between antidepressant use and sleep disorders
When you suffer from depression chances are your medical doctor will prescribe an antidepressant. While this medication can enhance your mood and assist in overcoming your mental illness, some antidepressants can provoke or aggravate some sleep disorders. REM Behavior Disorder is one such disorder – causing individuals, while they sleep, to act out their often violent dreams. This has been linked to antidepressant use.
Doctors are noticing the affects of prolonged drug use, more and more in younger patients who have turned to antidepressant use. As they turn to medication instead of addressing their underlying issue, the drugs being administered are leading to entirely new and a different set of problems. Some doctors say they aren’t surprised with the adverse side affects on the brain, knowing the chemicals used in manufacturing certain antidepressant medications.
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You’re fired!
Lack of sleep can lead to lack of employment . . . .
We have all had those work days that drag on and on. You spend your time watching the second hand make its way around the numbers on the clock. It’s only 10:00 in the morning and the only thought in your mind is “when can I take a nap?” Your manager has called an afternoon meeting and you aren’t sure how you’ll get through the rest of the day, never mind sitting in a stuffy boardroom at 3:00, listening to everyone drone on and on. Maybe you will make a quick caffeine-run and grab some fresh air OR maybe you can curl up under your desk and hope that no one notices that you are missing. . . .
Tired employees are costing their companies billions of dollars in lost productivity, never mind the huge liability they represent. If you own and operate your own company – think about those lost profits. If you are one of those tired employees – think about what that means for you. It could very well mean you are out of a job. No one wants to keep an unproductive employee.
When surveyed, sleep deprived employees couldn’t name a specific grievance with their company, however, they reported an overall dissatisfaction with their job. Unsatisfied with their company or position, sleep deprived employees leave their jobs at an alarming rate. Those statistics aren’t very promising for employers - seeing as the general workforce is reportedly more and more exhausted these days.
Additionally, absenteeism rates are highest among sleep deprived employees. They are more likely to miss work and because they are exhausted, agitate and tired, they miss work because of health-related problems. They are basically too tired to make it into work for the day.
The happier the employee, the happier the customer. In positions where employees directly deal with customers and clients, sleep deprived employees have a tendency to alienate customers and treat them poorly, which reflects negatively on the company.
When you are irritate and tired, dragging yourself through your work day feels like a significant chore. You continually make more mistakes, you have no patience or tolerance with your co-workers, you are easily distracted and lose focus and overall, you lack any desire to be at work, never mind do a good job.
Fatigues and lack of concentration contribute to numerous on-the-job accidents. This results in disastrous consequences for you and your company. If you or a co-worker are responsible for operating machinery, electric gear or tools, even the smallest impairment in your judgment can result in severe harm and even death.
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Sleep disorders in the bedroom lead to battles in the courtroom.
(A high divorce rate is reported in couples struggling with sleep loss)
It’s an all too familiar scene that plays out in bedroom after bedroom, night after night, all around the globe. While one person snores away, oblivious to the irritation they are causing, the other person spends their night tossing and turning; elbowing and prodding and grumbling their way through another sleepless night. The scenario usually ends in the non-snorer hauling themselves to the couch for another uncomfortable, awkward night. Along with their pillow, they usually carry along annoyance, aggravation and frustration.
A peaceful night’s sleep could be the secret to longevity in a marriage.
While you are snoring away each and every night you probably aren’t aware of the damage it’s placing on your relationship. You are aware of how it’s affecting you and how it’s preventing you from getting a restful night’s sleep, but, do you realize the affect it’s having on your bed partner? Do you fully understand how it’s disrupting their sleep and affecting their mood and emotions?
If you are a habitual snorer, your bed partner’s sleep is being equally as compromised. Even if they have come to accept and have learned to ‘live with’ your snoring, their sleep is being impacted.
Couples who continually deal with snoring and sleep apnea also have a higher rate of divorce. Tension and conflict increase when quality of sleep decreases. That places a direct strain on your marriage. You are both sleep deprived and you begin taking out your frustrations and grievances on one another. You have less tolerance and less patience for each other and you can easily get trapped in the blame game.
Other relationships, outside the bedroom walls, are also being compromised. Your personality changes and shifts in your character are detected by friends, family member and co-workers. A simple conversation can take a turn due to your frustration, impatience and irritation with others. Your sleep deprivation is turning you into a different person!
A relationship - otherwise secure and stable - is unlikely to deteriorate solely based on your lack of sleep. However, it can definitely add strain, intensify existing problems and exaggerate your differences. Your communication skills are impacted when you haven’t had sufficient rest and problem sleepers tend to become depressed and unsatisfied in their relationships. All your relationships seem to be negatively impacted when sleep loss plays a significant role in your life.
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When your sleep decreases, the overall chance for an accident or injury increases.
"Up next on the 6:00 news. After a roll over today, one person is pronounced dead on our city streets. The cause of the accident was due to the driver falling asleep at the wheel . . .”
With their annual summer vacation said and done, the Paul Family was heading down the highway on the last stretch before home. The kids were all safe and sleeping in the back seat and Carl and Mona were recapping their adventure. Suddenly, on the other side of the highway, a truck quickly swerved, hit the ditch and proceeded to roll half a dozen times before coming to stop just short of a telephone pole.
The Paul’s sat in amazement and were shocked at what they had just witnessed. The next morning Mona scanned the paper to find out what came of the vehicle’s occupants. The paper stated there was only one inhabitant in the vehicle and he was pronounced dead on the scene. It said the crash was a result of the driver falling asleep at the wheel.
Simply stated – a major cause of road accidents is impaired sleep. Fatigue and carelessness as a result of sleep loss play a much larger role in more disasters, than ever reported. When polled, in drivers who admitted they had driven while tired, over 1/3 of them also admitted they had at one time or another, fallen asleep at the wheel.
Driving while sleep deprived is comparable to someone who drives while under the influence of alcohol. Lack of sleep modifies a person’s emotions and moods and it also reduces their reaction time; similarly to someone who’s had too much alcohol. Recently, a study reported that individuals that are sleep deprived are responsible for over 1/2 of all accidents on the road.
Lack of sleep impairs both your attentiveness and your reaction time. It’s anticipated that 20% of all injuries sustained at the workplace, occur because of an individual’s sleepiness. Workplace related accidents create a financial liability on corporations, the health care system, the individual and on society as a whole.
You drive while you are tired and you don’t really think twice about it – it seems harmless enough and it doesn’t appear you are hurting anyone. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The truth is it’s unsafe and it’s dangerous. Driving while drowsy is a liability that doesn’t discriminate. It impairs your reaction time, limits your ability to make judgments and alters your physical & mental ability.
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An average family will spend more money on the cost of diapers than they would to correct the sleep problem.
Dreams . . . not so sweet . . .
Making the transition from the world of diapers to the world of potty-training isn’t always an easy one. There are bound to be some issues along the way. A few accidents will happen. That’s to be expected and it’s unavoidable and inevitable – it’s part of the process. Children get busy playing with their toys and before they know it, it’s too late. They gulp down their juice at lunchtime and suddenly, if hits them out of the blue. An occasional accident is just going to happen. If nighttime bedwetting moves beyond the occasional accident, it could be a sign there is something more going on with you child.
There is no medical reason associated with the average child sporadically wetting their bed. It’s part of the process in gaining independence and growing up. However, there is a category for those children who are affected with a sleep disorder that results in bedwetting.
Sleep apnea is caused when an obstruction prevents oxygen from fully reaching your lungs. Sleep apnea is the most common disorder linked to bed wetting in children. Studies have shown there is a considerable connection between children with sleep apnea and children who soil their bed.
When sleep apnea occurs in a child, they are simply not getting adequate and proper sleep. They don’t quite enter the deep sleep stage and they linger in a ‘fog-like’ state. When they are sleeping, it takes them longer to ‘snap out of it’ and become fully aware of their urges. This directly impacts and ultimately decreases their response time. When their bladders are full, they aren’t aware of it and it subsequently leads to bed wetting. In addition, certain breathing disorders place an added strain on their bladder resulting in an increased urine output.
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Hey – my sex drive is gone? Does anyone know where it went?
Alright – let’s admit it. There aren’t a lot of men out there who readily discuss this topic. It’s generally not a conversation piece in too many locker rooms or when out with buddies. Not too many men will discuss, never mind admit, that they have difficulty getting romantic. The subject is generally deemed taboo and confidential. The only ones that usually know there is a problem are him and his partner.
Most men probably think the subject will elicit a lot of jokes and laughter. The truth is, dealing with the matter of impotence is no laughing matter. The circumstance is embarrassing, uncomfortable and frustrating.
It may be that you have no trouble getting aroused. Essentially, you are healthy and physically well. The only barrier you are trying to overcome is your lack of desire. You don’t crave sex. You have no desire for intimacy. Your libido is all but non-existent.
The answer to your passionate-less nights could lie in a good night’s sleep.
You know how important sleep is and you know how your overall health is dramatically impacted when you get good sleep. Your sex life is no different. Your sex life is negatively impacted when you don’t get enough shut eye. Various studies have shown that sleep directly impacts a man’s testosterone levels. Sleep affects the variations in their hormones.
It’s a well documented fact that when a man begins to age, his testosterone levels starts to decline. When high levels of the hormone are present, a man’s blood pressure improves, he is more easily able to lose weight and his hair tends to fall out quicker. On the reverse, inadequate levels of testosterone are linked to a decrease in libido, an inability to maintain an erection and an overall lack of sexual desire.
Sleep apnea and snoring seriously affect the quality of sleep you get. When you aren’t getting enough quality sleep, the effects on your sex life are devastating. When plagued with sexual impotence or lack of desire, most men would blame a number of outside factors: stress, work, money, family obligations, etc. The truth of the matter is when men are afflicted with a sleeping disorder, their internal body clock is disrupted and it results in a decrease in their libido.
Additionally, men suffering from sleep apnea or severe snoring produce unusually low levels of testosterone. This deficiency causes a reduction in libido, leads to bouts of impotence and decreases sexual desires.
A healthy sex life and a healthy lifestyle go hand-in-hand. You need to ensure you eat a well-balanced & nutritious diet, learn to control your stress, exercise your body frequently and most importantly – you need to get sleep. Lots and lots of sleep. Your partner will thank you.
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Daily, abundant sleep should not be regarded as a luxury. It is a basic human need. You know the affects on you, when you don’t get enough sleep. You know how your personality is altered and you spend your days anxious and exhausted. Every situation frustrates you and every encounter irritates you. No one should have to live that way – especially you! You should be able to wake each morning, excited about the possibilities of your day. You should wake refreshed and energized.
Your demand for optimal health should be your top priority. You owe it to your spirit, your body, yourself. No more feelings of angst and apprehension. No more adding to your body’s illness and disease. No more obstacles in your relationships, your job, your life.
Make a major impact in your life; a major improvement. Dr. Durham or Dr. Strickland will provide a full analysis and thorough evaluation and he can determine your sleep disorder, the necessary treatment options and most importantly – a solution designed for your specific needs. You owe it to yourself and your loved ones. Make the call today. You’ll be glad you did.
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