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Effects of Lack of Sleep

Insomnia and restless sleeping (sleep apnea) is a curse to all people who suffer from this. Approximately 60 million Americans suffer with some degree of insomnia.When you cannot sleep you are always feeling tired, drained of energy, and irritable. There are 3 methods to try and cure this problem.

Insomnia Treatment

The first one as always is drugs. The most common group of drugs the doctors will try is the benzodiazepine group which includes temazapam, lorazepam, nitrazepam ,flurazepam and diazepam. The side effects from these are they are addictive and can carry over into the day. They are an hypnotic sedative. A lot of people taking these drugs feel drowsy, have memory loss, schizophrenia, headaches, dizziness, nausea, diarrhoea and constipation to name but a few.

Natural Drugs

The second way is the natural medicines. There are lots of brand names but the main ingredients are Melatonin, passion flower, the herb valerian, chamomile and Kava. Sometimes insomnia is caused by a lack of magnesium. For this you want a diet that includes dark leaf green vegetables,cashew nuts, and the fruit of the legume plant. The ground root of the kava plant is good for anxiety related sleep disorders.

Insomnia Cure

The third way is totally drug free and can be more effective than drugs. You can relax with yoga techniques, Have a massage, meditation or you can train your brain with relaxation techniques Sleep researchers have showed that the capacity to fall asleep and stay in a deep sleep is a skill. It's something you can become good at -- even if you've gotten, after a long time of poor sleep and bad conditioning, very bad at it.

Just by listening to audio soundtracks -- Sleep Tracks. These tracks are safely engineered to induce immediate AND long-term changes in your brain activity. They're using an increasingly popular (but still little-known, even after 30 years) technology called brainwave entrainment. What is brain entrainment you ask yourselves? Well the sleep tracks are designed to influence the electrical activity in your brain. It is meant to entrain them. It does this in the same way that has been used by man to generate trances and altered states by using rhythm. If you listen to a rhythmatic sound and concentrate on it, you can feel yourself relaxing as your brain gets in sync with the rhythm. This generates more brainwaves that will vibrate at the same rate as the sound that you are hearing. The speed and pitch of the pulses are gradually increased guiding your brain. This will have a lasting effect on your sleep.

So to sum up. Do you want to take drugs and make the drug companies rich? Putting up with their side effects and endless doctors appointments to get your prescriptions. You can take the natural medicines which certainly have far less side effects but again for how long do you take them for. For me the third option of training your brain to sleep is far less intrusive, has no side effects and when you have done it, you will have succeeded in sleeping