Is There Any Way To Cure Insomnia?

Eyes wide open: Hannah Betts has had sleep disorders since childhood

Dreaming wistfully of a good nights rest? Youre not alone: insomnia has reached epidemic proportions. Hannah Betts delves into those dark hours when sleep slips out of reach. Eyes wide open: Hannah Betts has had sleep disorders since childhood Photo: Clara Molden By Hannah Betts Comments As I write this, it is turning noon. I am exhausted. My mind runs through the verbal alternatives done in, beat, dead, shattered, jiggered, drained, wiped, consumed, finished, spent and settles on what the OED informs me is its British vulgar slang option: buggered. My skin is stretched taut over my cheeks, charcoal smudged under each eye.
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Renewing the offensive against sleep disorder

State of the art diagnostics VanguardFeatures gathered that SleepMedix is the first ultra-modern, fully equipped state-of-the-art diagnostics and treatment center for sleep disorders in Nigeria. Conducting VF round the facility in Lagos, the duo, alongside Mr. Ernest Madu, said: The mission of SleepMedix is to increase public awareness of sleep disorders and provide comprehensive high quality care in the field of sleep medicine in Nigeria. We also strive to provide the best diagnostic testing and consumer access to specialty drugs that are not readily available in the market and we focus on patient outcomes and deliver the highest quality care possible.
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Get Some Sleep: ADHD, sleep disorders often entwined

After years of trail and error with various drugs and dosing, I found my happy medium 7 months ago. Once I solved the sleep deprivation issue 7 months ago, I woke up rested everyday, 7 days a week. I lost 30 pounds without changing my eating habits. I felt ready to conquere the world every morning, and enjoy the calmness with focus throughout the day, something I’ve never had in my life.
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Snoring Affects Eyesight, Evidence Suggests

New experimental device may silence snoring, ensure good night’s sleep

More precisely, it appears that, the louder a person snores, the more likely they are to end up suffering from poor vision. And no, this doesn’t happen because they get punched in the face by their loved one more often than non-snorers are. The scientists theorize that, in the case of people suffering with sleep apnea, it often happens that the collapsing of the tissue of the throat muscles is accompanied by a reduced flow of oxygen to the eyes. They say that this is probably the reason why sleep apnea sufferers are 1.67 times more likely to develop glaucoma than people not diagnosed with this condition are, sources say. The researchers wish to conduct further investigations and determine if their assumptions are true to facts. FILED UNDER:
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How Snoring Can Wreak Havoc On A Marriage

Many couples described the intimacy and comfort level of sleeping in the same bed is extremely important to their relationship. As he describes in the book, in their time together before drifting off to sleep, “couples catch up on what’s going on with one another, plan, make decisions, deal with disagreements and solve problems.” With their hectic schedules, many couples often only have this time to catch up. It is no wonder why it’s crucial to their relationship. Unfortunately, snoring can force one spouse into another room for the sake of sleep, and this crucial together time is hard to replace in their busy lives otherwise. If your marriage is suffering because you or your spouse snores, the key to reconciling is to understand that snoring is a symptom of a physical condition, such as sleep apnea, sinusitis or nasal obstruction, and it can be treated.
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Researchers say sleep apnea sufferers are 1.67 times more likely to develop glaucoma

Michael Friedman, Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital. The surgery is considered minor, but this does require having an electrode and small battery with a thin wire implanted under the skin. A remote turns the device on and off. “This is exciting in terms of research because it’s the first time we can control the position of the tongue without removing or changing the anatomy of the patient,” said Dr.
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Popular Blog Highbloodpressuresupport.com Showcases Information To Manage Blood Pressure

Lower Blood Pressure May Help Sicker Kidney Patients

High Blood Pressure Supports Francis McDonald explains, While hypertension is one of the most common diseases plaguing millions of adults worldwide, it still has a higher fatality rate. By creating HighBloodPressureSupport.com, we want to encourage people to be more vigilant in monitoring, preventing and managing this disease. The primary goal of the site is to publish diverse information on hypertension to help people make the correct decision especially in terms of choosing what high blood pressure treatment they should take advantage of. According to McDonald, HighBloodPressureSupport.com aims to provide valuable and accurate information at all stages of high blood pressure management from pre-hypertension preventive monitoring to high blood pressure treatment. This is in line with the CDCs finding that 20% of adults with hypertension are not even aware that they have a potentially fatal disease. High Blood Pressure Support and the CDC are unanimous that constant blood pressure monitoring and early risk assessment is vital to prevent deadly complications. The American Heart Association reiterates that symptoms of high blood pressure may only manifest when a persons blood pressure reaches dangerous levels. Most of the time, people afflicted with hypertension can be asymptomatic but this does not mean they dont need high blood pressure treatment and management .
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“This is not a panacea. We have a lot more to figure out. But our evidence suggests that we have a way to at least delay or possibly even prevent end-stage kidney disease in some patients,” study leader Dr. Lawrence J. Appel, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said in a Hopkins news release. The study of 1,094 black patients with chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure found that aggressive treatment to lower high blood pressure to about 130/80 provided the most benefit to sicker kidney disease patients — those with protein in their urine.
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Neck surgery suggested as cure for blood pressure

These findings have led to a clinical trial in a specific group of people with hypertension caused by problems with their sympathetic nervous system, and who have not responded to other treatment. The sympathetic nervous system is involved in the fight or flight response and causes increases in heart rate and blood pressure. What did the research involve? Put simply, the researchers performed a number of experiments on rats with hypertension (spontaneously hypertensive rats) and normal rats to investigate how surgically interrupting nerve signals to the carotid body lowers blood pressure. What were the basic results? The researchers found that giving spontaneously hypertensive rats pure oxygen deactivates the carotid body and causes blood pressure to fall.
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‘healthy’ Vitamins To Avoid If You’re Ill

Vitamins: Too much of a not-so-good thing?

Dr. Paul Offit says everyone should be more skeptical about taking large doses of vitamins.

There may be no need to feel guilty after all. Ten million of us take vitamins regularly whether for general health or specific conditions. And we spend a whopping 175 million a year on supplements and pills which contain antioxidants that are claimed to help combat disease. But despite all the promises, the pros and cons of vitamins and supplements are still very debatable and studies show that some can be bad for your health. Debatable: We spend 175million a year on vitamins and supplements but some can be bad for our health Just last month U.S. researchers discovered the routine practice of taking calcium and/or vitamin D supplements to protect against bone loss caused by hormonal therapy for prostate cancer could actually be making patients conditions worse. You should always speak to your doctor before taking any supplement, says Professor Hilary Powers, head of human nutrition at Sheffield University.
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Rule book: Calcium is advised to maintain strong bones - but should be avoided if you have kidney disease

Paul Offit says everyone should be more skeptical about taking large doses of vitamins. As Offit wrote in an op-ed the New York Times , a 1994 New England Journal of Medicine study on 29,000 Finnish smokers found beta carotene was associated with lung and heart disease death. Beta carotene and vitamin A in combination were shown in another New England Journal of Medicine study to be linked to a 46% greater risk of death from lung cancer than placebo. A 2012 Cochrane review of multiple randomized clinical trials showed an increase in risk of death may be linked to beta carotene and vitamin E, as well as higher doses of vitamin A.
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Diet Doc Weight Loss Plans Introduce New Fast Diet and Exclusive Weight Loss Supplements for Better Health and a Slimmer Figure

All weight loss supplements can be quickly and easily ordered over the phone or the internet and are shipped directly to the patients home with a Certificate of Analysis demonstrating the high quality of ingredients used within the fast diet supplements. Because these products are developed in Diet Docs own, United States based and fully licensed pharmacies, clients can feel confident that they are receiving only the highest quality ingredients available on todays market. Diet Doc patients will also work closely with certified nutritionists who spend time educating patients on the importance of choosing healthy, low fat foods that encourage the patients body to burn fat for energy . Patients will also receive the fast diet cookbook along with their shipment of weight loss supplements and can begin creating their own meals based on the recommendations of Diet Docs nutritionists. Patients will quickly learn which foods allow them to reach their better health fat loss goals but still taste great and leave them feeling full and satisfied. And, using these important skills after completing the fast diet program allows Diet Doc patients to sustain their weight loss over time, something many fad diets have been unable to offer their patients. Because the Diet Doc team is dedicated to helping patients quickly shed unwanted and embarrassing excess fat, and achieve better health overall, they remain available for unlimited client consultations six days per week.
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12 Fitness-friendly Hotel Chains

Next Generation Of Rebound Sport Shoe Springs Onto The Fitness Scene Today; World-Renowned Fitness Guru Launches Air Glide Marioâ„¢

You can even find creative, cutting-edge fitness classes, many for free, at various locations. For instance, at Chicago’s Hotel Palomar, take a rooftop Barre Bee Fit class or do rooftop flow yoga at Kimpton’s Hotel Solamar in San Diego. Or if you’re at 70 Park Avenue Hotel in New York City, check out a free mini iPad loaded with fitness apps and tutorials to create the perfect workout. Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants Fullscreen Gansevoort Hotel Group: When you stay at one of Gansevoort’s three properties (two in New York City and one in Turks and Caicos), you’ll have access to creative fitness classes at Exhale Mind Body Spa, a powerhouse in the fitness industry and creator of a line of DVDs for home exercisers. Class options include core fusion barre, core fusion cardio, core fusion sports and core fusion yoga in the spa’s fitness studios. Although you’ll have to pay for classes, you’ll get a $10 break on each one.
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Fitness challenge: Bells take toll

The Indiegogo campaign offers a series of compelling rewards to backers which will only be available now through October 5th, and at pre-launch the product will only be available exclusively to supporters. Some rewards include a customized one of a kind Air Glide model with that backer’s personal or company name, a private two hour air gliding session with Mario Godiva racing cars, taxis, and buses through the streets of NYC, and the highest level reward is to name, design, and brand one of the six model lines of the Plyo Air Glides fleet. Over the past eight years, Godiva has inspired thousands of people to exercise by wearing rebound sport shoes, a low impact alternative to running shoes that allow individuals to burn over 25 percent more calories during fitness activities, drastically increase VO2Max, and reduce up to 80 percent of the bone-jarring shock absorbed by one’s ankles, knees, hips and back.Originally developed for rehabilitation purposes, byneurophysiologist Gregory Lekthman, rebound sport shoes motivate individuals to exercise longer, harder and more frequently. However, current products do not offer featuresthat allow users to stop, stabilize, or prevent them from falling, and this has inhibited the movement’s growth. “While rebounding is one of the best cardio exercises for the entire body, there hasn’t been any innovation or major improvements to the rebound sport shoe in almost 20 years,” said Mario Godiva, world-renowned fitness expert , and inventor of the new Plyo Air Glides brand. Rebound sport shoes evolved in theory and design until 1994, at which point the product’s evolution stopped. With a mission to inspire millions of people to exercise, Godiva evolved, improved, and forged the concept into an elite fitness tool called Air Glide Mario, the opening model of Plyo Air Glides.
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In fact, it was a gorgeous woman who trained Vasco to use the bells – Anna Samson, a New Zealand Iron instructor, who trains kettlebell trainers countrywide. She says there are even bridal bootcamps based around kettlebells, helping brides get buff before their big day. She also runs chick-only sessions called “KettleBelles” on Auckland’s North Shore. She raves how the bells give an intense cardio strengthening workout that boosts the metabolism, makes you strong and sears fat. Vasco reckons the only other exercise forms that burn as many calories include high-speed cross-country skiing and high-speed wood chopping.
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Sleep Problems In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (asd)

When Sleepwalking Becomes Dangerous

Approximately 1% of the children met the criteria for autism. Overall, the frequency of chronic insomnia was more than ten times higher in autistic children compared to non-autistic children (39.3% v 3.6%). These children also developed more sleep problems over time, with an incidence rate at of 37.5% compared to 8.6% in the controls at age 11-13 years. Likewise, sleep problems were more persistent over time in children with autistic symptomatology, with a remission rate of only 8.3% compared to 52.4% in the control group. Despite few girls being represented in the study, the authors found that sleep problems were significantly less prevalent in girls than boys, and that their sleep problems were also more transient.
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Teaching Individuals With Special Needs About Prejudice When the Subject of Gay Rights Comes Up

Approximately two hours after falling asleep, he had a sleepwalking episode during which he left the bed, unlocked the bedroom window, and fell out of the first story window. He struck his face on the concrete sidewalk below, resulting in the loss of four teeth, severe damage to his braces, and a fractured lower jaw. Prior to this event, there was a history of occasional non-violent and non-injurious sleepwalking episodes occurring every 2-3 months. These events were typically characterized by his walking around in the house, attempting to leave the house, or trying to take a shower. His parents were usually successful in redirecting him back to his bed.
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Apnix Sleep Diagnostics Unveils New Options for Houston Sleep Apnea

The fact is that dental devices, breathing strips, and more are commonly used to treat this condition. For some patients, these treatments may suffice. However, Apnix Sleep Diagnostics offers the most innovative and effective treatments available, and these are more dependable and effective than other types of treatments that patients may have tried in the past. After receiving an accurate diagnosis of the condition, the professionals at Apnix Sleep Diagnostics can provide patients with a customized treatment plan that is right for them. Many people who have been struggling with sleep conditions and disorders for months or years have already tried to find an effective treatment for their condition, but they have not been effective at producing the desired results. Apnix Sleep Diagnostics is a facility that has been in business for many years, and its team has helped countless individuals overcome their sleeping conditions and disorders. The result of getting a peaceful night of sleep on a regular basis can have a long-term, beneficial impact on a person’s life by improving physical and mental health.
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Sleep problems common, untreated in systemic lupus erythematosus

Among the SLE patients in this study, 13 (43%) had mild disease activity and 14 (47%) had moderate disease activity as measured by the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index ( SLEDAI ). The remaining three patients (10%) had severe disease activity. All of the SLE patients were taking corticosteroids. Compared with the control subjects, the SLE patients had significantly higher PSQI scores, indicating poorer sleep quality. The mean PSQI score was 8.47 among SLE patients, compared with 5.1 among healthy women.
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Beauty Benefits Of Using A Skin Serum

– The molecules in serums are smaller than those in your regular moisturiser; thus they penetrate deeper into the skin and give better results. A moisturiser has larger molecules, and so it works only on the first layer. – While serums deposit highly concentrated active nutrients, vitamins and minerals, which are essential for treating various skin conditions, moisturisers provide moisture and hydration to the skin. – The efficacy of serums is more as compared to moisturisers. The results acquired are quick and satisfactory, unlike the latter.
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This Song Captures Everything That’s Wrong With Our Idea Of Beauty

Loading Slideshow 1. Winona Ryder Winona Ryder recently spoke to Interview magazine’s editor-in-chief Stephen Mooallem about the discouraging comments one casting director made early on in her career:

I was in the middle of auditioning, and I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, “Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough.
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