Alot of people are living a stressful lifestyle and suffer from chronic stress with primarily work and relationship related problems. Modern population, is so bombarded with hectic work schedules, household chores, and not to mention other stressors such as headaches with spouse relationships, family issues, having dilemma on how to settle bills and poor diet which contributes to digestive stress. Also, there are number of population or people who experience and suffer from spiritual stress, religion related issues, restricted from doing this and that, not allow to eat this and that foods, or obliged to only eat vegetarian diet.
With all the different layers of stressors, how much longer can your body handle? Have you ever ask yourself this question? Wonder why some people just snapped or 'lost it', and they 'EXPLODE' out of nowhere? Everyone will have his or her own limit or barrier, when it comes to mental or physical stress. Question is, do you listen to your body? How often do you listen to your body? How much of quiet time do you have for yourself in a day or a week? Are you going too fast and need to slow down in your regular daily life? Do you still hit the gym for an intense weight lifting session even your body tells you that you are exhausted and having low energy levels? Do you still train that day for marathon or run a 8km even if your body tells you to STOP and rest? Do you work day and night having only few hours of sleep week in week out for a chronic period of time? Well, majority of the modern people just don't listen to their body and suffer health consequences after a certain period of time, months and years later.
Today, I will discuss about the 2nd type of 'integrated doctor' within our own self. This integrated doctor, primarily determines how much of stress one is suffering, how much is quiet time you should be getting, or how much of sleep or rest you need. We can call it Dr. Sleep. You can call it whatever you want, but it primarily determines your natural circadian rhythm and stress levels.
Once you’ve learned to work with your 1st integrated doctor which manage your diet and nutrition, your consultation with Dr. Sleep begins with your sleep habits. Sleep is the most vital contribution that Dr. Sleep will make to your physical health and wellbeing. Most people, tend to sleep an average of 7 hours per night, which is at least 90-120 mins less sleep every night then people were getting roughly 100 years ago.
Today, I will discuss about the 2nd type of 'integrated doctor' within our own self. This integrated doctor, primarily determines how much of stress one is suffering, how much is quiet time you should be getting, or how much of sleep or rest you need. We can call it Dr. Sleep. You can call it whatever you want, but it primarily determines your natural circadian rhythm and stress levels.
Once you’ve learned to work with your 1st integrated doctor which manage your diet and nutrition, your consultation with Dr. Sleep begins with your sleep habits. Sleep is the most vital contribution that Dr. Sleep will make to your physical health and wellbeing. Most people, tend to sleep an average of 7 hours per night, which is at least 90-120 mins less sleep every night then people were getting roughly 100 years ago.
As you can imagine, your body, which developed its natural rhythms well before humans even started using fire, easily becomes terribly disrupted by so little sleep. In fact, evolution has designed our bodies to follow a number of natural rhythms. The movements of the sun, the moon and the earth literally govern all of our hormonal rhythms. Our relationship to the sun, for example, directs the seasonal influences on our bodies. At different times of the year, the length of the day is different and this fact has shaped our behavior for most of human history.
In winter for example, it is normal to go to bed earlier and get more sleep. It’s cold too, which encourages us to stay in bed in the morning. In summer, it is warmer and the days are longer so we tend to be more energetic. More daylight also lends itself naturally to longer workdays or play days. The spring season gives us a nice slow transition into the more energy expressive summer season, while fall gives us a nice, gentle transition into the more restful winter season.
Well, I have discussed quite a handful of details about circadian rhythm and sleep in my previous posts. I will add on some other details and recap some of the importance of sleep and our biological clock in this post. It is the rising of the sun that triggers the hormones that wake us in the morning and the setting of the sun that triggers the hormones that enact rest and repair during the night. If you don’t get to bed by 10pm, you’ll start cutting into your natural bodily repair cycles. Your physical repair cycle runs from 10pm until 2am, repairing your muscles, bones, joints and organs. After 2am, your psychogenic repair cycle begins, attending to the nervous and hormonal systems.
If you are physically active, especially if you are an athlete, missing out on rest is particularly damaging. You end up missing out on needed physical repair time and injury becomes far more prevalent. There are athletes or fitness enthusiasts who think late night sleep or getting less then 7 hours of sleep if adequate for their recovery of health. Besides, are you getting quality sleep throughout the night regularly? Or you have difficulties falling into sleep and awake in wee hours 2-3am for no apparent reason? Tons of people claimed they have 9 hours of sleep nightly, but they still feel exhausted and tired, question is why?
When you stay up past 2am, be it partying, working the night shift or getting up to care for infants, you’ll start displaying nervous system fatigue. This often shows up as headaches, foggy thinking and muscle twitching in the face and around one or both eyes. Additionally, anyone that misses the optimal sleep cycle, even if they sleep later into the morning, will not get the same degree of restoration as if they had gone to bed by 10pm because the repair cycles are driven by solar, lunar and terrestrial forces, which really don’t care about what shift you work or late night TV or playing online games! When this continues, even for a few days, this is when the stimulant effects of the caffeine/sugar cycle can further impact your nervous and hormonal systems, and instead of reducing your stress, will increase it.
Taking care to listen to Dr. Sleep becomes even more critical once we accept that the natural connection between the rising and setting of the sun and our sleep cycle is so easily disrupted. Light is one of the most important external factors that can affect sleep. Today, we are quite literally bombarded with electromagnetic pollution and overly stimulated by artificial light sources, such as lamps, TV’s, computers, digital alarm clocks and any number of light (and electromagnetic) emitting appliances that may be near us when we sleep. The electromagnetic pollution from electrical devices keeps a lot of people from sleeping well. This is crucial to understand because our bodies are particularly sensitive to all types of light exposure, which can dramatically influence the balance of our sleep wake system.
Light sources can trigger the awakening/stress hormones, making sleep difficult. This means not only a loss of sleep, but that the quality of your sleep diminishes. Exposure to light in the middle of the night can have more unpredictable effects, but can certainly be enough to cause our internal clock to be reset, and may make it difficult to return to sleep. Typical electrical lighting is very stimulating to the part of the brain that is both light and time sensitive. Remember, electric lights appeared very recently in our evolutionary history. They trick your brain into thinking that the sun is coming up at midnight and your body into releasing stress hormones to prepare you for another day’s work! That really disrupts sleep patterns. I have been telling tons of people about this over and over again.
These effects begin to stack up on one another as lack of sleep is interpreted as a very significant stress input by your body. This triggers further production of stress hormones. These hormones further disrupt your sleep duration and quality, blocking your ability to regenerate your bodily tissues and systems. Often times, Dr.Sleep's solution to the symptoms of excessive stress is waiting right there under the surface to be discovered. For example, some people who go on vacation, particularly when they went camping or resting on the beach, most, if not all of their symptoms completely disappeared!
If you simply follow the advice of Dr. Sleep and get to bed by 10pm and sleep for a good 8 to 9 hours each night, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much better you feel overall and how much less stress you feel. You will also probably notice right away that you don’t crave so much sugar, caffeine and nicotine, both of which exacerbate most any and all ailments of the human body. Individuals who travel across time zones or work the night shift typically have two symptoms. One is insomnia when they are trying to sleep outside of their internal phase, and the other is excessive sleepiness during the time when their internal clock says that they should be asleep. The disruption to the hormonal system caused by broken sleeping patterns can be quite profound.
The more well managed you are the more energy and vitality you will build, which makes you more robust and resilient to illness. Can't do it? I think most of you realize yourself that you are running out of excuses and no one can help you unless you start changing your lifestyle including sleep wake pattern by helping yourself. It is primarily your mental strength, how discipline you can be, how determined you want to be healthy and how much you want to live your life with better improved quality. Stay tuned.
In winter for example, it is normal to go to bed earlier and get more sleep. It’s cold too, which encourages us to stay in bed in the morning. In summer, it is warmer and the days are longer so we tend to be more energetic. More daylight also lends itself naturally to longer workdays or play days. The spring season gives us a nice slow transition into the more energy expressive summer season, while fall gives us a nice, gentle transition into the more restful winter season.
Well, I have discussed quite a handful of details about circadian rhythm and sleep in my previous posts. I will add on some other details and recap some of the importance of sleep and our biological clock in this post. It is the rising of the sun that triggers the hormones that wake us in the morning and the setting of the sun that triggers the hormones that enact rest and repair during the night. If you don’t get to bed by 10pm, you’ll start cutting into your natural bodily repair cycles. Your physical repair cycle runs from 10pm until 2am, repairing your muscles, bones, joints and organs. After 2am, your psychogenic repair cycle begins, attending to the nervous and hormonal systems.
If you are physically active, especially if you are an athlete, missing out on rest is particularly damaging. You end up missing out on needed physical repair time and injury becomes far more prevalent. There are athletes or fitness enthusiasts who think late night sleep or getting less then 7 hours of sleep if adequate for their recovery of health. Besides, are you getting quality sleep throughout the night regularly? Or you have difficulties falling into sleep and awake in wee hours 2-3am for no apparent reason? Tons of people claimed they have 9 hours of sleep nightly, but they still feel exhausted and tired, question is why?
When you stay up past 2am, be it partying, working the night shift or getting up to care for infants, you’ll start displaying nervous system fatigue. This often shows up as headaches, foggy thinking and muscle twitching in the face and around one or both eyes. Additionally, anyone that misses the optimal sleep cycle, even if they sleep later into the morning, will not get the same degree of restoration as if they had gone to bed by 10pm because the repair cycles are driven by solar, lunar and terrestrial forces, which really don’t care about what shift you work or late night TV or playing online games! When this continues, even for a few days, this is when the stimulant effects of the caffeine/sugar cycle can further impact your nervous and hormonal systems, and instead of reducing your stress, will increase it.
Taking care to listen to Dr. Sleep becomes even more critical once we accept that the natural connection between the rising and setting of the sun and our sleep cycle is so easily disrupted. Light is one of the most important external factors that can affect sleep. Today, we are quite literally bombarded with electromagnetic pollution and overly stimulated by artificial light sources, such as lamps, TV’s, computers, digital alarm clocks and any number of light (and electromagnetic) emitting appliances that may be near us when we sleep. The electromagnetic pollution from electrical devices keeps a lot of people from sleeping well. This is crucial to understand because our bodies are particularly sensitive to all types of light exposure, which can dramatically influence the balance of our sleep wake system.
Light sources can trigger the awakening/stress hormones, making sleep difficult. This means not only a loss of sleep, but that the quality of your sleep diminishes. Exposure to light in the middle of the night can have more unpredictable effects, but can certainly be enough to cause our internal clock to be reset, and may make it difficult to return to sleep. Typical electrical lighting is very stimulating to the part of the brain that is both light and time sensitive. Remember, electric lights appeared very recently in our evolutionary history. They trick your brain into thinking that the sun is coming up at midnight and your body into releasing stress hormones to prepare you for another day’s work! That really disrupts sleep patterns. I have been telling tons of people about this over and over again.
These effects begin to stack up on one another as lack of sleep is interpreted as a very significant stress input by your body. This triggers further production of stress hormones. These hormones further disrupt your sleep duration and quality, blocking your ability to regenerate your bodily tissues and systems. Often times, Dr.Sleep's solution to the symptoms of excessive stress is waiting right there under the surface to be discovered. For example, some people who go on vacation, particularly when they went camping or resting on the beach, most, if not all of their symptoms completely disappeared!
If you simply follow the advice of Dr. Sleep and get to bed by 10pm and sleep for a good 8 to 9 hours each night, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much better you feel overall and how much less stress you feel. You will also probably notice right away that you don’t crave so much sugar, caffeine and nicotine, both of which exacerbate most any and all ailments of the human body. Individuals who travel across time zones or work the night shift typically have two symptoms. One is insomnia when they are trying to sleep outside of their internal phase, and the other is excessive sleepiness during the time when their internal clock says that they should be asleep. The disruption to the hormonal system caused by broken sleeping patterns can be quite profound.
The more well managed you are the more energy and vitality you will build, which makes you more robust and resilient to illness. Can't do it? I think most of you realize yourself that you are running out of excuses and no one can help you unless you start changing your lifestyle including sleep wake pattern by helping yourself. It is primarily your mental strength, how discipline you can be, how determined you want to be healthy and how much you want to live your life with better improved quality. Stay tuned.
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