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Question: What proportion of road accidents is caused by falling asleep at the wheel, 10%, 20%, 30% or 40%?
Answer: 20% – It also causes around 300 deaths every year. People with sleep apnoea have a seven-fold increased risk of a road accidents while driving. However general tiredness is also to blame.
For more information or to discuss any concerns you may have regarding the impact of poor quality or disturbed sleep, come and visit us at www.ajh-hypnotherapy.co.uk/blog
Question: Which of the following is not a symptom of sleep apnoea, loud snoring, unable to fall asleep at night, falling asleep during the day or morning headaches.
Answer: Unable to fall asleep at night, Sleep apnoea is a common sleep disorder which causes the person to stop breathing whilst asleep leading to tiredness and irritability the following day.
For more information or to discuss any concerns you may have regarding the impact of poor quality or disturbed sleep, come and visit us at www.ajh-hypnotherapy.co.uk/blog
Question: Which of the following is associated with too little sleep, obesity, heart disease or high blood pressure?
Answer: All of the above. Getting fewer than five hours a night has been linked cardiovascular disease. Research suggests that sleep loss may also increase the risk of obesity as it affects hormones involved in appetite and weight gain.
For more information or to discuss any concerns you may have regarding the impact of poor quality or disturbed sleep, come and visit us at www.ajh-hypnotherapy.co.uk/blog
Question: How much of our lives do we spend asleep?
Answer: A third
For more information or to discuss any concerns you may have regarding the impact of poor quality or disturbed sleep, come and visit us at www.ajh-hypnotherapy.co.uk/blog
Which essential amino acid may help you sleep, lysine, asparagines, valine or tryptophan?
Answer: Tryptophan is common in protein-rich foods such as dairy and poultry and can boost levels of the relaxing neurotransmitter serotonin. The Christmas nap after eating large amounts of turkey is supposed to be due to tryptophan present in the meat. No doubt alcohol also has an effect!
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Question: Which of the following can help you sleep, Dropping off in front of the television, a hot bath, exercise or reading a book?
Answer: Reading a book. Watching TV before bedtime is not recommended. A hot bath or exercise just before going to bed raises the body’s temperature making it more difficult to sleep. Any exercise should done hours before going to bed.
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UK news teams have today picked up and is often the case risk sensationalising the story released by BMJ Open (British Medical Journal) that sleeping tablets quadruple the risk of death following several studies carried out between 2002 and 2007 in the US. During this time just over 34,200 patients were assessed, more than 10,500 patients received sleeping medication versus just under 23,700 who weren’t.
A recent report and our supporting article highlights that 1 in 4 people across the UK now regularly suffer from poor or disturbed sleep. Often they turn to over the counter or prescription medication at a cost to the NHS of more than £74,000,000 last year alone.
At best sleeping tablets are a temporary solution, they don’t and never have addressed the root cause of the problem, this is backed up by a mounting pile of evidence demonstrating that sleeping tablets are ineffective in tackling insomnia, disturbed and poor sleep. Add to this the potential health implications and you surely have to ask yourself why.
The BMJ report;
This and all other reports should read and taken in context. If you take sleeping tablets now are you suddenly more likely to die? In my humble opinion I think it highly unlikely.
A more realistic and tangible concern if you suffer from insomnia, poor quality or disturbed sleep is how your everyday life is impacted and affected.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and non drug based treatments are widely acknowledged as the quickest and most effective solution for sleep disorders.
I specialise and have been providing CBT based solutions for poor sleep to clients for the past 6 years and am able to restore good quality sleep patterns in a matter of 4-6 sessions, often less.
If you are concerned about the quality or experiencing problems with either yours or your partners sleep, please contact me amanda-jane@ajh-hypnotherapy.co.uk to discuss, or take look at our web site.
Important Note: Sleeping tablets and medication are often referred within medical circles as “hypnotic prescriptions”, this must not in any way be confused with hypnotherapy or hypnosis treatments.
Interrupted or fragmented sleep may lead to memory problems, a new study suggests.
The study findings may partly explain why conditions such as sleep apnoea, Alzheimer’s disease and alcoholism, which also cause sleep disruptions, can lead to memory impairment.
Scientists at Stanford University were able to unravel what specific characteristic of sleeping affected memory. Poor quality sleep, stress, lack of sleep and time spent sleeping have all been linked to memory problems.
Using mice, the researchers used a new technique, known as optogenetics, in which specific cells are genetically engineered to be controlled by pulses of light.
The technique allowed them to target the brain cells that play a key role in switching between being asleep and being awake.
By stimulating the cells with 10 second pulses of light, they could interrupt the animals’ sleep without affecting total sleep time or the quality and composition of sleep.
The animals were then placed in a box with two objects: one of which they were already familiar, and another that was new to them.
Mice have a natural tendency to explore new objects, so if they spent more time with the new object, it would suggest that they remembered the other familiar object.
However, the mice in the disrupted sleep group were equally interested in both objects, suggesting that their memory was affected. Mice which had slept normally were more interested in the new object.
One in four of us have problems sleeping, without realising the effect it has on our health – We have all at one time or another suffered from disturbed or poor quality sleep, but do any of us consider at what point this may start to have serious implications to our health?
As humans we should get between 7 and 8 hours a sleep a night yet one in four of us suffers from poor sleep at any one time and up to one in ten suffers from insomnia. Typical symptoms include difficulty falling or staying asleep, or feeling unrefreshed in the morning which shows why it’s so important to our mental as well as physical health..
The authors of the review, Dr Charles Morin from the Université Laval, Québec City, and Ruth Benca from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said “insomnia can lead to “substantial long-term effects” on people’s physical and mental wellbeing”.
“Most people with the condition are vulnerable to recurrent episodes and research suggests that nearly 70 per cent of those with insomnia continue to experience symptoms a year later, and half still have insomnia up to three years later.
People with insomnia are more than five times as likely to experience anxiety and depression, are at more than double the risk of developing congestive heart failure and diabetes, and are at a higher risk of premature death, the authors said.
They highlighted a study which found that people with insomnia were seven times more likely to abuse alcohol or drugs over the next three and a half years compared to those without the condition.
Although many with insomnia turn to over-the-counter medicines for the sleep disorder, the authors said there was “little evidence” of their effectiveness“.
Click the following link to read the full article on Yahoo Health.
Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette, blood pressure, pulse, body temperature of hands and feet drop to normal.
After 8 hours carbon monoxide levels in the blood drops to normal level.
After 8 hours oxygen level in the blood increases to normal.
After 24 hours the chance of a heart attack decreases; nerve endings start to re-grow and the ability to taste and smell increases too.
After 72 hours, bronchial tubes relax and lung capacity increases
Between 2 weeks and 3 months; circulation improves, walking becomes easier and lung function increases by 30%.
Between 1 to 9 months; sinus congestion, coughing, fatigue, shortness of breath are all decreased. Precancerous cells are replaced, there is an increased ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs and reduce infection.
