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"TREATING insomnia WITH BLISS The next time you wake up at three a.m. in a fit of overthink-ing, try an experiment. Rather than being consumed by stressful thoughts, direct them to your Bliss List, and let the positive images wash over you. We've found this technique often helps calm people, redirect stress, and allows them to get back to sleep more quickly. Why does it work? The mere anticipation of stress can be as harmful to one's body as the actual experience." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Although cholinesterase inhibitors demonstrate small improvements on cognitive and global function in some patients with mild to moderate AD, and may work in some severe cases as well, they do not work for others, and can have side effects that include gastrointestinal upset, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and muscle cramps as well as sleep disturbances, insomnia, and nightmares. in 2002 I decided to take donepezil myself." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"When our giving involves personal contact and connection with the people we help, we may reap even greater health gains, such as fewer colds and episodes of flu, quicker recovery from surgery, relief from insomnia, and even a reduced tendency to overeat. Regardless of how we give, it is certain that giving when we feel most emotionally downtrodden or depleted is a great way to increase our energy resources, create connectedness, and, ultimately, to build community. Creating the Human Community As a species, we are social creatures who need human interaction to thrive." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Valeriana officinalis), a perennial plant native to North America, Asia, and Europe, and widely prescribed in Europe for the treatment of insomnia. The composition of valerian includes sesquiterpenes of the volatile oil (including valeric acid), iridoids (valepotriates), alkaloids, furanofuran lig-nans, and free amino acids such as y-aminobutyric acid (GABA), tyrosine, arginine, and glutamine. Valerian administered to animals shows sedative effects. Valerian is often combined with passionflower and St.-John's-wort for treating anxiety or sleeplessness." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The populations in Northern European countries like Norway and Finland, which experience months of darkness every year, have a higher incidence of irritability, fatigue, illness, insomnia, depression, alcoholism, and suicide than those living in the sunny parts of the world. Their skin cancer rates are higher, too. For example, the incidence of melanoma (skin cancer) on the Orkney and Shetland Isles, north of Scotland, is 10 times that of Mediterranean islands. UV light is known to activate an important skin hormone called solitrol." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Low serotonin may cause headaches, depression, fatigue, a lower sex drive, insomnia, and hot flashes. When serotonin levels fall, your body compensates by raising other neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is normally balanced with the adrenal hormone epinephrine (adrenaline). If you are under stress, or if your adrenals are weak, you will not have good epinephrine levels." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "In fact, you will probably only make matters worse, trading one symptom for another, such as insomnia or a stomach upset. Everyone has symptoms of one sort or another, even the woman who thinks that "everything is just fine, thank you"—yes, even she has symptoms. Unfortunately we women have been groomed to accept our symptoms. We generally toe the party line and believe, as we've been told from our first menstrual pang, that our emotional ups and downs, bloats and belly pains are just part of being a girl." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "She used to sleep soundly, but now she was having insomnia most nights and feeling irritable and discouraged with things. Her sex drive was not what it should be, and she suffered from recurrent urinary infections. On examination, her breasts were tender and lumpy, and her abdomen was bloated and distended. Blood tests showed a normal estradiol level, and her FSH and LH indicated that she was not yet menopausal. Her magnesium, calcium, and potassium were in the very lowest ranges of normal, as was her DHEA. Her Cortisol was okay, but her aldosterone was high." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "They offer targeted amino acid therapies to treat symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, and depression. Quest Diagnostics (and the regular lab your doctor uses) Quest Diagnostics labs are located throughout the country and many doctors use them routinely. They can perform many of the routine blood tests mentioned throughout this book, such as RBC magnesium, homocysteine, CRP, DHEA-S, all hormone levels, SHBG, and IGF-1. They also offer specialized tests such as CoQIO levels and vitamin A and vitamin E levels, so be sure to ask your doctor if he or she uses Quest or a comparable lab." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Kids sometimes experience the following symptoms: Immediate Symptoms of Withdrawalfrom Gluten and Casein • insomnia. Anger and anxiety. Fatigue. • Night sweats and day sweats. Hyperactive behavior. • Constipation, or diarrhea. Clinging and whining. • Upset stomach. • Cognitive dysfunction. Return, or amplification, of prior ADHD or autistic behaviors. These symptoms generally tend to resolve in about forty-eight hours, but they can diminish more gradually." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "They start to associate eating wheat or milk with insomnia, diarrhea, and agitation. This makes it much easier for them to stick to the diet. In short, each new day gets a little easier, just as it generally does for recovering alcoholics or drug addicts. One problem with the GF/CF diet, though, is that it can trigger hypoglycemia if a child begins to eat too many carbohydrates, particularly sugar, as a substitute for gluten and casein foods. Parents often allow this to happen, because they feel bad that their children's diets have been limited." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Calcium and magnesium, working together, tend to have a calming effect, and can sometimes help provide relief from the anxiety and insomnia that are common among 4-A kids. In comparison to the following foods, a cup of whole cow's milk contains 288 mg. of calcium. Food Sesame butter (3 oz." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Excessive perspiration, or night sweats. • insomnia. Craving for foods, especially sweets and starchy foods. Need for frequent meals and snacks, and irritability if meals are missed or delayed. Obviously, many of these symptoms are also similar to symptoms of food reactions and Candida overgrowth. Once again, we see how all of these conditions overlap, aggravate one another, and combine to create powerful symptoms that can mimic and magnify symptoms of autism and ADHD." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"This results in a plunge down the Brilliant Health staircase into a potential host of undesirable outcomes: reduced sex drive, insomnia, depression, decreased memory, poor cognition, impaired digestion, and immune deregulation. Even the biggest blamers and self-identified victims want to have good sex, sleep well, think clearly, and remember where they've been. And most important, who doesn't want their immune, digestive, cardiac, and endocrine systems to function properly?" - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Vitamin E has also been shown to reduce PMS-related breast tenderness, nervousness, depression, headache, fatigue, and insomnia. Newer research suggests that low vitamin E levels are linked to estrogen dominance. Furthermore, vitamin E deficiency has been found to inhibit estrogen detoxification. / TAKE 400 IU OF VITAMIN E PER DAY. Calcium-Magnesium Combo Most women and men find it difficult to get the recommended 1,200-1,500 mg of calcium per day from their diet. Calcium intake should therefore be supplemented with a calcium-magnesium combination supplement." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"In determining individualized treatments for insomnia, it is imperative to identify and address the underlying cause as well as provide options for short-term relief. The basics start with good sleep hygiene. This includes going to bed at the same time each night and avoiding or reducing naps. A comfortable bed and room temperature along with low levels of light and noise contribute to better sleep hygiene. It is often advised that the bedroom should not be used for eating or television watching but rather only for sleep and intimacy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "John's Wort Uplift Chaste Tree Berry Women's Phase I Also see Abnormal Uterine Bleeding, Depression, insomnia, and Memory." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "In one clinical trial, 33 percent of men and women without insomnia who took valerian and lemon balm 30 minutes before bed reported an improvement in sleep quality. Only 9 percent in the placebo group reported improvement.198 Other Botanicals. Numerous plants have sedative actions and have been used historically to promote sleep and improve sleep quality. These include hops, skullcap, chamomile, lemon balm, oat straw, lavender, bitter orange, California poppy, and kava. Preparations can include powdered capsules, tinctures, and teas." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Unless you take time to get acclimated to your new, higher altitude, with any physical exertion at all you'll quickly experience such symptoms as fatigue, insomnia, headache, and even shortness of breath. But if you stay at high altitude for a day or two, your body starts responding to the altitude stress by making more red blood cells (so much so that some people living at high altitudes have mild polycythemia). Now your organs can get the oxygen they need to keep you going at your usual pace, and your symptoms will disappear, leaving you feeling normal again." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "In fact, just tapering off the dose can result in a major-league rebound of insomnia and nervousness. But some patients report that this kind of drug helps reduce daytime fatigue. Once again, while some of the reasons for these effects are unclear, I'm willing to try these drugs in some cases. If a drug works in a certain illness, that positive effect can tell us something about the biological processes producing the illness." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "The drug, ramelteon (Rozerem), is FDA-approved for insomnia. This government approval means that consumers can be sure that the amount of drug stated on the packet is actually in the pill and that it has proven to be useful by a double-blind placebo-controlled trial. However, when the over-the-counter drugs don't work, this is not my next step. In late 2006, this drug cost a bit less than four dollars per pill. My next step is to turn to the sedating antidepressants amitripy-line (Elavil) or doxepin (Sinequan), which I've already described in other sections of this chapter." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Besides being a muscle relaxant, Valium is also a general relaxant in that it reduces anxiety and helps some people with insomnia to fall asleep. And yet I never prescribe Valium, because no one knows whether the drug remains effective as a sedative if taken for more than a few days. What is well known, however, is that people can get chemically dependent on drugs in this class. Instead, I sometimes turn to a different muscle relaxant, tizanidine (Zanaflex)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"People who strength train regularly are less likely to struggle with insomnia. Reduce the signs and symptoms of a variety of diseases and health conditions including arthritis, back pain, heart disease, depression, diabetes, osteoporosis, and obesity. How to Get Started Space limitations prevent me from presenting a full strength-training program for you here. You really need visuals—photos or a video or an actual trainer—to fully understand and customize the simple techniques you will incorporate in your strength-training program. But it's easy to find resources to help you get started." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Symptoms of dehydration can include: headaches, irritability, impatience, restlessness, insomnia, dry skin, loss of appetite, constipation, unexplained weight gain, and swollen hands and/or feet from water retention. The gradual loss of water in the body is one factor of aging which contributes significantly to wrinkles. Water requirements vary according to body size, physical activity, air temperature, and sweating. It is generally recognized that a normal body requires about eight glasses of water each day, or about one half ounce for every pound (33 ml per kilogram) of body weight." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Stress-induced insomnia can impact two hormones that function to stimulate and control your appetite: ghrelin, the hormone that pumps through your body when you feel hungry, and leptin, the hormone that tells you that you are full and to stop eating. In the long-term Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, men and women who routinely slept eight hours nightly were compared to those who slept five hours or less." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Second, while the SSPJs have been proven to have real efficacy for many if not most people who suffer from major depression, there is no evidence or only very limited evidence that they work for people with "subsyndromal" depression—that is, people who have one or two of the symptoms of major depression, like insomnia or restlessness, but not the six highly specific criteria that are required to meet the diagnosis." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Many doctors routinely continue to prescribe synthetic hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, and moodiness. These prescription drugs are composed of synthetic estrogen or a synthetic estrogen and progestin combination. Synthetic hormone replacement has also been prescribed to protect women from the loss of bone mass after menopause." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"In fact, in some people, the eye signs are apparent before the other common signs of Graves' disease, which include palpitations, hand tremors, insomnia, heat intolerance, and excessive hunger, thirst, and weight loss. Graves' disease is about eight times more common in women than men, and women are five times more likely to have thyroid-related exophthalmos than men." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "But it's more likely the insomnia and crying that often accompany depression—rather than the depression itself—that are to blame. Crying can cause fluid retention, and the fluid tends to pool under the eyes. Menstruation, pregnancy, excess salt intake, and certain medications, such as antidepressants and birth control pills, can also cause fluid retention and, of course, bags. Conversely, bags can also be a sign of the dehydration caused by alcohol, so they may be our body's way of telling us that we're drinking too much." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Among its symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, insomnia, and fits of unprovoked crying. the evil eye, we attribute tremendous meaning to the eyes. Indeed, eyes are usually the first thing we focus on when meeting a new person or greeting an old friend. They are the most recognizable part of the human face, if not the whole body, which is why eye masks have been used for centuries to hide the wearer's identity. Masks still play a prominent role in such festivals as Halloween and Mardi Gras, where they're used symbolically to hide the identity of their wearers from devils and other evildoers ..." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

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