Feeling Tired Every Day? It is a life threatening condition. Pills are not the answer. Learn about tiredness and how to get help
Feeling Tired is something that many, many people experience every day. Why do they feel this way? Do they get enough sleep? How about the right kind of sleep ” if there really is any such thing?
Long-term tiredness can cause: heart disease, incontinence, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and even a complicated pregnancy. Eventually, feeling tired all the time tears down your immune system and damages your general health.
Did you realize that…
If you feel tired, you are not alone ” in United States and European Union 1 out of 4 persons suffers from tiredness.
25% of all women suffer from clinically significant daytime sleepiness (according to a National Science Foundation study).
Tiredness is becoming the modern plague.
The optimal amount of sleep is not a meaningful concept unless the timing of that sleep is related to that individual’s daily rhythms. The major sleep episode is relatively inefficient and inadequate when it occurs at the “wrong” time of day.
Sleep timing is correct when the two following circadian (daily) markers occur after the middle of the sleep episode. But, they must occur before awakening
1) Maximum concentration of the hormone melatonin. This hormone apparently has a role to play with sleep. Some people take melatonin as an aid for falling asleep. There are others who say it does not work for them.
2) Minimum core body temperature.
The U.S. National Sleep Foundation maintains that seven to nine hours of sleep for adult humans is optimal. Their study showed that sufficient sleep benefits alertness, memory and problem solving, and overall health. It also has the effect as well of reducing the risk of accidents.(Being more alert.)
A widely publicized 2003 study performed at the Pennsylvania University School of Medicine revealed that mental performance declines with fewer than eight hours of sleep. If would seem, therefore, that staying up all night with no or little sleep when cramming for an exam would be counter productive. It is probably better to start studying days before the test and get a good nights sleep right before the test.
A University of California, San Diego psychiatry study of more than one million adults found that people who live the longest self-report sleeping for six to seven hours each night. Our guess is that they gave their body a chance to recoup every 24 hours. That is, they did not wear out the bod so fast.
Researchers from the University of Warwick and University College London have found that lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. However, too much sleep can also double the risk of death. Moderation in everything should be your motto.
Furthermore, sleep difficulties are closely associated with psychiatric disorders such as depression, alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Up to 90% of patients with depression are found to have sleep difficulties.
Many who are sleep deprived really dont want to pop a pill. Some say that they might fall asleep, but they feel they are not getting real or natural sleep. Perhaps, they feel the dregs of tiredness after artificial sleep.
Well, there are ways to get to and stay sleeping in a more natural way. However, it is beyond the scope of this article to go into treatment of sleep deprivation.
Disclaimer ” Information included here is not meant to diagnose, treat, mitigate or cure any condition or disease. You should consult with your doctor or medical adviser before using. No information given here is approved by any government agency. It is for educational purpose only.
