Like most people, you have probably experienced the unpleasant feeling that occurs when your alarm goes off and you’re still exhausted. You think “man, I need to get to bed earlier” or “I need to get more sleep”. However, unless you are sleeping six hours or less a night, you are incorrect: you don’t need more sleep, you need better sleep.
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A recent sleep study has found that both the quality and quantity of our sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember - and what we forget.
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According to this recent New York Times article on choosing the right sleep medication, thirty percent of Americans report experiencing sleeping problems (and forty percent of those individuals suffer from coexisting psychiatric disorders), ten percent show signs of daytime impairment associated with a lack of sleep, and twenty percent of serious car accidents are believed to result from driver drowsiness.
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As you are likely aware, sleeping pills (both prescription sleep aids and over-the-counter drugs) pose many risks, including the threat of long term dependency and other health issues that arise from the lack of proper sleep. In fact, the most recent edition of Consumer Reports magazine comes down pretty strongly on the side of non-medicated sleep.
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According to the upcoming September issue of Consumer Reports magazine, too many people are dependent on both prescription sleep medications and over the counter sleep aids. The magazine staff performed a nation wide survey and discovered that forty-four percent of Americans are problem sleepers. Sleep problems are defined as difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or consistently waking up too early. Furthermore, one in five Americans use prescription or over-the-counter drugs - and twenty-four percent became dependent on those sleep aids.
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Now your beloved iPhone or Blackberry can do one more thing that improves your sleep - your mobile phone help you solve your sleep problem (provided that can use it to listen to audio tracks). That is because you can download the Speed Sleep program and use your phone to listen to them wherever you happen to be.
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Many individuals have have sleeping problems or ever suffer from sleep disorders, however, many of them do not fully understand their condition. Furthermore, besides the fact that sleep deprivation takes an enormous toll on your creativity, productivity, and overall health, it is important to understand the various types of disorders, sleep issues, sleep aids, and more in order to find a solution to your sleep problem. Enter the Speed Sleep Sleep dictionary, or everything you need to know about sleep, from A to Z.
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Many individuals suffer from various sleeping problems and sleep disorders; however, most of them do not actually think they have a real problem. After all, don’t we all suffer from a few sleepless nights now and then? On the other hand, if you follow the latest health news and read the Speed Sleep blog regularly, you are probably already aware that even slight sleep deprivation leads all sorts of problems in the future. Want to assess the quality of your sleep? Ask yourself these six key questions:
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The experience of being pregnant can be one of the most wonderful times in a woman’s life; however, it can also be one of the more difficult times health-wise, particularly in terms of getting enough sleep. Many women experience insomnia and other sleep disorders, which have even more of a detrimental impact on overall health during pregnancy (after all, you are sleeping for two!). Furthermore, since prescription sleep drugs or other sleep aids are forbidden, getting proper sleep becomes even more difficult, especially for women who depended upon them prior to becoming pregnant.
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Prescription sleep drugs like Ambien, Lunesta, Halcion, and Sonata are classified as hypnotic sedatives, and they are the class of drugs most commonly prescribed to sufferers of various sleep disorders - and they can definitely alleviate a sleeping problem, at least at first. However, using these drugs on a regular basis poses some serious health risks, including long-term dependency and an increased possibility of sleep walking (and therefore related problems like falls and injuries sustained while sleep walking).
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