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Can Circadian Rhythm Cause Sleep Cycle Disruption?

Trapper — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:01:22 +0000

I want you to take a second and visualize closing your eyes for just a few minutes and gaining all the amazing benefits you get from a full eight hours of sleeping.

This probably perked up your curiosity huh?

You could most likely go clubbing long after the roosters crowed. Or shuffle your time between two high-paying jobs without worrying exactly how many hours of sleep you can get in approximately.

Do you understand what circadian rhythm is? Circadian rhythm is simply our internal 24-hour biological clock. Therefore, the Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders are those linked to the time of sleep within any 24-hour period. Sometimes these disorders are brought about by instances controllable by the individual like shift work or change in time zones. Some though, are because of other factors like neurological mechanisms.

One very frequent type of the Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder is the Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS). This disorder is characterized by a delay of a person’s sleeping time; insomnia or sleepiness; inability to wake up at a specific time; depression is possibly evident;especially if this has been ongoing for three months.

Since that these affected individuals are considered “owls” or “night people”, they work best and are in their best mood in the later parts of the day. Some have attempted to “remedy” themselves of this disorder and have turned to sleeping pills to induce sleep. However, people have become dependent on the pills, so some experts have suggested meditation techniques.

As a person who has suffered with bouts of insomnia, and one not liking the potential side affects of sleeping pills or drugs, we recommend all natural ways to fall asleep at night.

What are your thoughts? Are prescription drugs like Ambien safe? Please leave me a comment, I’d love to hear from you.

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood; CMH
Certified Master Hypnotist
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Sleep And Body Temperature In Middle-Aged And Older Adults

tchrisusa — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:22:04 +0000

Although changes in the circadian timing system are thought to be a major factor in the decline of sleep quality that often accompanies aging, few reports have actually examined this relationship in detail. Because some treatments for age-related insomnia are based on putative circadian changes, it is important to expand the limited database that specifically addresses this issue. This study examined age-related changes in sleep, and relationships between those sleep changes and alterations in the circadian timing system, in a group of middle-aged and older subjects.

Sixty healthy men and women between the ages of 40 and 84 were studied. A subset of older subjects (< 65 years) had reported sleep disturbance for at least 1 year before participation. Polysomnography was obtained, and body core temperature was recorded continuously for 24 hours. All recordings took place in the Laboratory of Human Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College.

There were no differences in sleep quality between middle-aged and non-sleep-disturbed older subjects. However, timing of the minimum body temperature was earlier in the older non-sleep-disturbed subjects than in the middle-aged group. In contrast, sleep-disturbed older people had shorter total sleep times, reduced sleep efficiency, more waking time after sleep onset, and a reduced proportion of REM sleep compared with non-sleep-disturbed older subjects. Yet, there were no differences between the two older groups in the rhythm of body temperature. For the entire group, age was correlated negatively with total sleep time, sleep efficiency, percentage of stage 2 sleep, and the timing of the temperature minimum.

The results support the widely held notion that sleep and circadian rhythm changes occur with aging. However, the hypothesis that age-related changes in sleep may be associated with aging of the circadian system was supported only to a limited degree, suggesting that age-related sleep disturbance is likely to have multiple causes. Thus, treatment strategies that incorporate a combination of interventions may be the most effective.

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Do You Know What Sets Your Body’s Clock

tchrisusa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:03:34 +0000

The human body is governed by an internal clock known as the circadian rhythm. In each 24-hour cycle, it makes you want to sleep when it’s dark and be awake when it’s light. It causes periods of sleepiness between midnight and 6 a.m. — the natural time for humans to sleep — then again in the midafternoon.

But as a shift worker, you have to try to sleep when your body is telling you to be awake, and be awake during those dips in your alertness level when your body is telling you to sleep. And as you get sleepier, you begin to miss things you would normally respond to, resulting in careless and even dangerous errors. Additionally, sleeping during the day can make it difficult to get the amount of sleep your body needs. Some research shows shift workers average five hours of sleep per day, at least one to one-and-a-half hours less than non-shift workers.

Regularly getting less than seven or eight hours of sleep in a 24-hour period really can lead to chronic problem sleepiness and cause irritability, crankiness and depression. It also makes it more likely that you might fall asleep while driving. And the only way to correct the problem is to get more or better sleep.

Whether you work a regular day shift, or the night shift, you can see the need for sleep.

To fall asleep, and stay asleep and get all the sleep necessary, we recommend an all natural, no drug, or pill product like the Sleep Secret Audio.

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