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12 Natural Treatment Tips for Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, and other Sleep Disorders!

April 11th, 2011

http://www.mystic-sleep.com/index.htm?aff=y/84 Sleep is the natural state of bodily rest. When you sleep, your body rests and restores its energy levels. Consistently good sleep helps you cope with stress, solve problems and recover from illness, and helps ensure long-term physical and mental well-being.

* Infants require about 16 hours a day
*Teenagers need about 9 hours on average
* Most adults need 7 to 8 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 5 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day
*Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual

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1) Reversing Damage – Years of stressful living caused damage to your body and mind. To help reverse this, Mystic Sleep releases hundreds of phytonutrients that act at the molecular level to normalize hormone levels, support brain function, alleviate mental duress, remove toxins, restore your immune system, and reinstate healthy sleep cycle.

2) Set a Schedule – Go to bed at a set time each night and get up at the same time each morning. Disrupting this schedule may lead to insomnia. Avoid napping during the day. “Sleeping in” on weekends also makes it harder to wake up early on Monday morning because it re-sets your sleep cycles for a later awakening.

3) Exercise – Try to exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day. Daily exercise often helps people sleep, although a workout soon before bedtime may interfere with sleep. For maximum benefit, try to get your exercise about 5 to 6 hours before going to bed.

4) Avoid Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcohol – Avoid drinks that contain caffeine, which acts as a stimulant and keeps you awake. Sources of caffeine include coffee (100-200 mg), soft drinks (50-75 mg), non-herbal teas (50-75 mg), chocolate, diet drugs, and some pain relievers. Smokers tend to sleep very lightly and often wake up in the early morning due to nicotine withdrawal. Alcohol robs people of deep sleep and REM sleep and keeps them in the lighter stages of sleep.

5) Avoid Using Sedatives – While you might fall asleep, the complete restorative sleep cycle will be not realized. You might awaken feeling unrefreshed, groggy, or hungover. Once you stop taking the sedatives, you might suffer withdrawal symptoms which will further interfere with attainment of natural sleep.

6) Drink Milk – Milk contains a substance called tryptophan. The body uses tryptophan to make serotonin, a chemical in the brain. Serotonin helps control sleep patterns, appetite, pain, and other functions. Milk does not contain enough tryptophan to change sleep patterns, but drinking a glass of milk before bed may help you relax.

7) Avoid Large Meals / Excessive Fluids – This might cause you to awaken due digestion problems or urination.

8) Relax before Bed – A warm bath, reading, or another relaxing routine (deep breathing, yoga, meditation) can make it easier to fall sleep. You can train yourself to associate certain restful activities with sleep and make them part of your bedtime ritual.

9) Don’t Lie in Bed Awake – If you can’t get to sleep, don’t just lie in bed. Do something else, like reading, watching television, or listening to music, until you feel tired. The anxiety of being unable to fall asleep can actually contribute to insomnia. Don’t expose yourself to content that is prone to increase anxiety – like the news.

10) Create a Sanctuary – Make sure your bedroom is dark and quiet. Use eye shades or earplugs if needed. Maintain a comfortable temperature in the bedroom. Extreme temperatures may disrupt sleep or prevent you from falling asleep.

11) Minimize Snoring – Sleep on your side to minimize snoring and breathing problems.

12) Sleep until Sunlight – If possible, wake up with the sun, or use very bright lights in the morning. Sunlight helps the body’s internal biological clock reset itself each day. Sleep experts recommend exposure to an hour of morning sunlight for people having problems falling asleep.

Mystic Sleep stops the cycle of sleep problems. It increases production of melatonin which keeps your circadian rhythm in tune, thwarts the production of cortisol (the “stress hormone” which at elevated levels prevents sleep), regulates cyclical nocturnal surges of growth hormones which interfere with your sleep cycle, stimulates production of neurotransmitters to alleviate irritation and depression caused by insufficient rest, releases antioxidants to combat free radical damage and inhibit deterioration of brain function, supports liver and metabolic processes to remove toxins from your body, aids in production of Leptin which reduces your craving for excessive calories (Leptin is depleted by lack of sleep thus increasing chances of obesity), introduces bio-enhancers to increase availability of nutritional substances to help restore your body’s immune system, and counteracts tension and high blood pressure.

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Cure Sleep Apnea – Stop Snoring Tonight

March 28th, 2011

http://budurl.com/gqy3 Are you snoring yourself to death? Sleep Apnea is a serious condition and cause many couples to sleep apart. Please click on link for more information.

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Sleep Apnea: Symtptoms, Treatment and Facts

March 7th, 2011

http://askdrgoldberg.com
Chiropractic is the natural solution to sleep apnea. In our office a lot of cases are due to a hiatal hernia. This is where the stomach pushes up into the esophagus that affects a person’s breathing while they sleep, and thus they wake up several times a night. The simple solution is to adjust the hiatal hernia manually. This is a safe, simple and very effective procedure done with very minimal pain and without surgery or side effects.

Sleep apnea is becoming very common as you may have noticed the increase of sleep apnea centers springing up all over the country. It is now as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than twelve million people in the U.S. alone. Risk factors include being male, overweight, over the age of forty, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, any time,even children. It’s sad that the vast majority of cases remain undiagnosed and therefore remain untreated, despite the fact that this serious disorder can have significant health consequences.

Learn more at http://bestpittsburghchiropractor.com or contact our office at 412-367-3778.

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Rosie O_Donnell and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (The View) [www.keepvid.com].flv

February 14th, 2011

Sleep apnea receiving some much needed exposure on the Rosie O Donnell show.

http://1800cpap.com

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Sleep Apnea Oral Appliance Alternative to CPAP

February 7th, 2011

Patient is a CPAP failure who sought alternative treatment at Blue Stone Dental. Listen to her success story with a TAP Appliance.

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‪Sleep Apnea Solutions with No CPAP Machine‬

February 2nd, 2011

Now in Sedona Arizona, William P. Smith, Jr., D.D.S. with over 25 years experience treating snoring, sleep apnea, pain from TMJ, headache, migraine, earache, neck pain, back pain using state of the art techniques, skills, appliances and solutions. This video highlights the real live issues and medical problems of three of Dr. Smith’s patients who had serious problems with Sleep Apnea.
Smith Dental LLC, Effective, comfortable treatment for obstructive sleep apnea you will be happy to use all night every night. Wake up feeling great.

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Cure Snoring And Sleep Apnea With This Breakthrough Product!

February 2nd, 2011

Get More information about this Anti-Snoring and Anti-Sleep Apnea product here http://snoring.sazzers.com

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Sleepnet Mojo Full Face CPAP Mask

January 29th, 2011

Imbedded “comfort band” and SoftGel technology

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Sleepnet MiniMe Pediatric Nasal CPAP Mask

January 26th, 2011

Sleepnet MiniMe Pediatric Nasal CPAP Mask

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Sleep Apnea Treatment Guide | Insomnia

January 26th, 2011

http://www.SmartChoiceForYou.com/insomnia
A sleeping man or women usually breathes constantly and uninterruptedly in the night.
Somebody with Sleep Apnea has regular symptoms (approximately 400-500/night) wherein stops breathe.
Breathing commonly stops approximately 30 seconds
And often startles awake with a noisy snort then starts to breathe again, steadily falling back to sleep.
There are 2 types of Sleep Apnea.
OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea)
Stops Breathing as tissue inside the throat shuts off the airway.
CSA (Central Sleep Apnea)
Brain centers that responsible for breath cannot send information to the breathing muscles.
Sleep Apnea is a kind of sleeping problem.
Sleep apnea affects people of every age group; also kids can have problems with Sleep Apnea.
There’s a treatment intended for Sleep Apnea.
Go here:
http://www.SmartChoiceForYou.com/insomnia

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