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"SLEEP PROBLEMS Many people suffer from insomnia and related sleep problems. Stress can disrupt the regular circadian (time-related) secretion of Cortisol and can be a major cause of sleep problems. Cortisol normally obeys the body's inner clock and responds to light and dark, morning and night. Cortisol levels are highest in the early morning, lower in the afternoon, and lowest at night. Cortisol helps to synchronize activity, patterns of eating, and patterns of sleeping. Adaptogens for Improved Sleep Adaptogens regulate the production of Cortisol, reducing stress." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"Sleep problems are especially common in perimenopausal women, increasing after age 40 and plateauing by age 50. sleep problems also contribute to fatigue, poor concentration, low motivation, irritability, depression, and anxiety. Insomnia comes in many sizes and shapes, including difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, restless sleep, and waking early and not being able to go back to sleep. These problems may last only a few days or a few weeks or become chronic with persistent problems more than three nights per week." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"This consensus document written by experts in the field lists the following disorders caused by Xanax and other benzodiazepines and sedatives:8 Dependence Abuse Intoxication Intoxication Delirium Withdrawal Delirium Persisting Dementia [generalized brain and mind dysfunction] Persisting Amnestic [Memory] Disorder Psychotic Disorder Mood Disorder Anxiety Disorder Sleep Disorder The very drugs prescribed for anxiety and sleep problems can cause anxiety and sleep problems. In fact, they routinely do." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Insomnia/Sleep Disturbances. sleep problems are especially common in perimenopausal women, increasing after age 40 and plateauing by age 50. sleep problems also contribute to fatigue, poor concentration, low motivation, irritability, depression, and anxiety. Insomnia comes in many sizes and shapes, including difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, restless sleep, and waking early and not being able to go back to sleep. These problems may last only a few days or a few weeks or become chronic with persistent problems more than three nights per week." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"This consensus document written by experts in the field lists the following disorders caused by Xanax and other benzodiazepines and sedatives:8 Dependence Abuse Intoxication Intoxication Delirium Withdrawal Delirium Persisting Dementia [generalized brain and mind dysfunction] Persisting Amnestic [Memory] Disorder Psychotic Disorder Mood Disorder Anxiety Disorder Sleep Disorder The very drugs prescribed for anxiety and sleep problems can cause anxiety and sleep problems. In fact, they routinely do." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"There are differences between men and women when it comes to sleep problems. "Pregnant women, whose abdomens have become extended during childbirth, can't fall into their usual sleep positions or have their usual contact with their bed mates," Dr. Dunkell says. "There is also an increase in insomnia caused by the pregnancy toward the end of the pregnancy period. Postpartum, women often have difficulty falling asleep for a number of days or weeks. Men generally have most of the insomnia that occurs before the age of 55 but in the postmenopausal period, women catch up." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"He never suffered from mood swings, temper tantrums, sleep problems, nightmares, or gloomy thoughts. He was never tearful. His personal life was filled with many friends and he was close to his parents. He loved music and was planning to form a band with some friends. In addition to sports, singing and acting in school productions, and other social activities, he was practicing on a guitar his parents had bought for him a year earlier. Plus, he had been very busy over the weekend and even during the few days at home when he was feeling tired." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"There are a lot of data showing that people who sleep poorly are more likely to relapse [with depression] and that suicide risk is higher," Sussman said. sleep problems also often require additional medication: 22 percent to 34 percent of patients taking SSRIs are also prescribed sedatives or hypnotics. There can also be bizarre sexual side effects—such as "yawning-excitement syndrome," in which patients experience sexual arousal when they yawn, even progressing to orgasm. "This is probably underreported," Dr. Sussman said." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Drugs and Melatonin Many recreational drugs and medications affect melatonin and contribute to sleep problems. Marijuana raises melatonin levels more dramatically than any other drug. Its effect typically occurs almost immediately (within twenty minutes of smoking) and results in very high levels (as much as four thousand times the normal baseline). Such high levels can cause rebound insomnia (see melatonin overdose below) and can deplete melatonin or tryptophan levels, resulting in disturbed, unrefreshing sleep and moodiness." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Other plants are used because of their benefit with specific symptoms; for example, kava extract for anxiety, dandelion leaf for water weight gain, valerian for sleep problems, and lemon balm for herpes eruptions. You will often find one or more of these herbs in combination herbal and nutritional products that have been specifically formulated for PMS symptom relief. Exercise Specific exercises are conspicuously absent from scientific studies looking at the effects of exercise on PMS." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Pills and Creams With oral progesterone sleepiness is a common side effect, so I prescribe it at bedtime if there are sleep problems. If you take it orally during the day, it will cause drowsiness or laziness. Most women report much deeper sleep while on oral progesterone. About 10 percent of my patients become irritable or feel hung over when using oral progesterone. If this happens to you, switch to a compounded skin cream or lotion. I prefer using topical progesterone skin cream or lotion because it also promotes a good night's sleep and tends to have fewer side effects." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"For those specific kids, though, they may be critically important For example, melatonin is not needed by everyone, but it's quite important for kids who have sleep problems. Here are the sixteen Tier Two supplements. Digestive Enzymes. In 2000, Andrew Wakefield, M.D., reported evidence of chronic colitis in 88 percent of sixty autistic children he monitored. More recently, Arthur Krigsman, M.D." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Restful sleep or sleep problems? Zero means you have no restful sleep; 10 is very restful sleep. You'll find this MHAQ test at www.arthritis-research.org/ documents.htm. What the Numbers Mean A patient with a MHAQ series of 0.5-80-100-65-4 has the following symptoms: ?0.5/100 assistance to move—she needs little assistance. ?80/100 pain—she is in a lot of pain. ?100/100 fatigue—she's very tired all the time. ?65/100 health perception—she doesn't feel well overall. ?4/10 sleep—she's not getting restful sleep. This person was pretty miserable." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Nine out of ten blind people have severe sleep problems because they are not getting sunlight into the retina of their eyes, into the brain to tell the brain that it is time to be awake during the day. The more light stimuli you can give your body during the day, the stronger your sleep-wake rhythm will be. I am talking about sunlight in particular. Indoor light is not going to make any difference. You need to expose yourself to bright sunlight?just your eyes. There are artificial sun boxes that are commercially available." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Side effects were transient and included drowsiness (31 % of patients), sleep problems (19%), decreased appetite (13%), nausea (13%), abdominal pain (13%), and excitement (13%). No patient developed disinhibition, akathisia, or suicidality. These preliminary findings suggest fluoxetine effectiveness in separation anxiety disorder and social phobia. Youths with only one anxiety disorder appeared to respond to lower doses of fluoxetine than patients with multiple anxiety disorders (0.49 +/- 0.14 versus 0.80 +/- 0.28 mg/kg, p < 0.05)." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"There is concern about the reliability of these urine tests, but I have found that nearly all patients who come to me with sleep problems who also test low find that the quality and depth of sleep improve after using growth hormone or growth hormone supports. So this test is a great screening test to see who is likely to respond to therapy. It can help you decide whether to invest in an expensive treatment like growth hormone injections or other growth hormone supports. Urine tests are easy to do and not too costly." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"These were depressed mood, fatigue, anxiety or worry, achy muscles, sleep problems, and not feeling satisfied after eating (eating satiation). The active group had significantly more improvement than placebo in the symptoms of fearfulness (500%), PMS moodiness (440%), muscle strength (460%), thinking a lot about food (260%), irritability (210%), focus (190%), craving starchy carbohydrates (190%), cravings in the afternoon or evening (170%), craving sweets (110%), motivation (100%), food portions (100%), and chocolate cravings (50%)." - Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, The Feel-Good Diet (Get the book.) "These were depressed mood, fatigue, low motivation, poor focus, poor muscle strength or feeling weak, anxiety or worry, fearfulness, PMS-related moodiness, irritability, anger, chronic pain, achy muscles, sleep problems, cravings in the afternoon or evening, eating large food portions, feeling not satisfied after eating, thinking about food often, and craving chocolate, caffeine, nicotine, starchy foods, sweets, or alcohol. Discussion of Study Results There were originally eight participants in each group of either active ingredients or the placebo lozenges." - Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, The Feel-Good Diet (Get the book.)

"Inside were a deck of playing cards embossed with the Ambien brand name, a compact disc with soothing music, and a card to send away for a free Ambien sleep mask, as long as one also provided the drug company with her name, address, and a description of her personal sleep problems. The All About Ambien brochure inside the kit boasted that the company's pill was "the #1 prescribed sleep aid in the U.S." In the end, Ms. Hillmer never actually spoke the word "Ambien," but I can't say that mattered." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"And because I'm off the meds, I don't have nearly as many sleep problems. There's never been any question in my mind that exercise is related, because it's this huge life change that I made. It's just so clear." TAKE THE INITIATIVE Not everyone with ADHD will experience the sweeping effect of exercise that Jackson did. And I would never have suggested he abruptly quit taking his medication, especially the antidepressant." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Sedation is a side effect of one drug in this earlier class, amit-ryptilene—sometimes known by the brand name Elavil—and so it can help with sleep problems. The other drugs in this class— nortryptilene (Pamelor) and desipramine (Norpramin)—are less sedating but still very effective in headache. When Elavil is too sedating, I will try Pamelor. And I will turn to Norpramin if for some reason the person has problems with duloxetine. Some doctors use a class of drugs called muscle relaxants instead of the tricyclics." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "I have begun using the drug for FM patients with major sleep problems, with mixed results. Sometimes it is really helpful, and other times it does nothing. Xyrem, however, is heavily controlled for a very good reason: when it was freely available, some men unfortunately used this powerful sedative as a tool for date rape. The FDA wisely decided to control its use, and now it is only available at one pharmacy in the United States. The drug company that makes Xyrem is in the midst of a large study on its use in FM." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"These include chronic stress, lack of focus, poor concentration, brain fog, anger, mood swings, sleep problems, or just feeling a bit anxious or depressed most of the time. Broken brains show up in two major ways: psychiatric disorders—problems that most blame on emotional trauma—and neurological disorders?problems most consider to be caused by neurological impairment, not emotional malfunctioning. Whether you suffer from a psychiatric disorder like depression or a neurological disorder like Alzheimer's, the simple fact is this . . . Our brains don't work well." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Allergies can cause leg aches, muscle aches, joint aches, sleep problems, behavior problems and learning problems. Some children will become tense, nervous and irritable. Others will become withdrawn and unreachable, hiding in corners and pulling away when you go to touch them. Still others will become very hyperactive and aggressive. Often they will bite, hit, scream and do all kinds of nasty things. "Most allergists—including myself for my first 18 years in practice—would not recognize this host of physical and emotional symptoms as having been caused by allergies." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"For those of us whose sleep problems crop up intermittently during stressful times at work or when we travel, the occasional sleeping pill can help. But that doesn't make sleeplessness a sickness. What both the National Sleep Foundation and its corporate sponsors did was conflate serious, chronic insomnia, which can be truly debilitating, with garden-variety trouble sleeping." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Lifestyles with a lot of late-night activities, bright night lights, late meals, and excess caffeine and alcohol further deplete our dwindling middle-aged melatonin reserves and worsen our sleep problems. Sleep disorders are common. Sixty-two percent of Americans have some type of sleep problem, and more than 35 million Americans suffer from long-term insomnia. Chronic insomnia can lead to a problem with your immune system, and can cause or worsen growth hormone deficiency as well as adrenal fatigue and premature aging. Bad sleep increases your chances of heart disease and obesity." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"At the other end of the life span, sleep problems are just as common. Older people frequently have trouble getting to sleep. Another common complaint is that they wake up far too early. Some have to get up to visit the bathroom and then have difficulty falling back to sleep. Others find that they are wide-awake at 3:00 a.m. and toss and turn until morning. Up to half of all elderly people report trouble with insomnia.671 Babies and senior citizens are not the only ones who suffer. The number of people who have intermittent or chronic sleep problems is enormous, perhaps as many as 70 million." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Then, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reports: "We know that depression is associated with sleep problems. But what this study shows is that, in depressed youths, not all sleep problems are the same," said [Xianchen] Liu, [M.D., Ph.D.]. "Insomnia and sleepiness is 'double trouble.' Youths having both of these had more severe depression than youths with just one sleep problem." (http://www.sciencedailv.com/releases/2007/01/070101104155.htm) As you likely noticed, Dr." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"It can be helpful in those with serotonin deficiency or with anxiety or sleep problems. Do not combine this with any other antidepressants or psychotropic medication (such as MAO inhibitors). The therapeutic dose is 300 to 450 mg twice a day. SAMe SAMe is an amino acid that is formed as part of your methylation cycle. It has been researched extensively and found effective for depression. Start with a dose of 400 mg four times a day, or 800 mg twice a day. A response usually occurs within three weeks and you can then reduce the dose to 400 mg twice a day." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Headaches ??Sleep problems •I- Joint aches ??Muscle aches ??Pain Fatigue Changes in your skin (acne) Changes in digestion or bowel function When you reintroduce foods you are sensitive to (like gluten and dairy), eat them at least two to three times a day for three days to see if you notice a reaction (unless, of course, you notice a problem right away, then stop immediately). But be sure to leave three days between the time you introduce each food. For example, if you introduce gluten on Monday, don't add dairy until Thursday." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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