Sleep meds disrupt sleep architecture
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Sleep is the great healer, the great teach and the great forgiver. The ability to achieve a deep and restorative sleep is […]
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Sleep Medicine
Sleep – the best medicine available to all of us. Remember: the Rest of your Days depend (s) upon the Rest of your Nights.
Sleep disruption and puberty
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Many things conspire to interfere with immune-maintaining, health restoring deep (stage 3,4) sleep. This is especially so in children whose levels of
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Stay up late? Worsen risk of breast cancer.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: I have advocated for deep, restorative sleep and here is another reason. Note that most sleep medications “disrupt sleep architecture” (read it
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We lose weight in our sleep
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: We lose weight in our sleep – provided we do not feel stressed when sleeping which leads to elevated night time cortisol
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True sleep, a blessing; medicated sleep, not so healthy.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Sleep is a physiologic process that requires 5 phases: stage 1 and 2 – early or shallow sleep; 3 & 4
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Binge eating?
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Xyrem, on-label for Sleep Disruption and soon for Fibromyalgia also helps with binge eating. Int J Eat Disord. 2010 Mar 5. [Epub
PDE4 and sleep – stay tuned.
Enzyme Behind Effects of Sleep Deprivation Discovered ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2009) ”” There is hope for those who miss one night too many or whose
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Naturally Occurring GHB is worth a scientific reconsideration
Date rape drug GHB is a naturally occurring brain chemical – November 23, 5:45 AMBirmingham Science News ExaminerPaul Hamaker Subscribe Get alerts when there is
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Seizures and hot flashes
Dr. Weeks Comment: Drugs work (of course) but corrective medicine options work better. Seizure Drug Enhances Sleep For Women With Hot Flashes ScienceDaily (Sep. 10,
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Let’s talk Sleep
Sleep Architecture During the night, a normal sleeper moves between different sleep stages in a fairly predictable pattern, alternating between REM and non-REM sleep. When