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Proven Fact:
If You Don't Cure Your Snoring Sleep Loss Will Shorten Your Lifespan
Are you always tired? Did you know lack of sleep can kill you? Read on . . .
The yearly golf trip was just a couple weeks away and Mike's apprehension was already mounting. He knew he wasn't just an average snorer. He knew his snoring was peculiarly intrusive and loud. As good natured as the joking was, it was awkward for Mike. He didn't want to be that guy.
Further to the annoyance of snoring, Mike finds himself waking up exceptionally tired. Frequently. Not just once in awhile after a particularly late night or an agitated sleep. Almost daily, he wakes listless, sluggish, and unmotivated. At 44-years of age, Mike acts, looks and feels a lot older than he is.
We can all laugh at a person in our life that snores. Each of us has a snoring story to tell. What isn't so funny are the damaging outcome snoring can have on your health. Deficient or unsuitable sleep can lead to health concerns ranging from annoying, to life threatening.
Snoring, sleep apnea and additional associated problems can amplify the risk of heart disease, strokes, elevated blood pressure and can lead to considerable illness and accidents. People with sleep apnea are over 300 per cent more likely to be implicated in a fatal car crash.
Snoring has been branded as "sleep with sound" but one thing is definite. A snorer gets no sound sleep. Those who lack quality, frequent sleep, increase their incidence for heart attacks. The added stress and anxiety on your body can generate illness, depression, mental disorders, disease and an array of physical hurdles.
We can all relate to a snoring story, but if you or someone you love is frequently tired and habitually snores, the chance for serious health concerns, even death, is more prominent. And that is no laughing matter.
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If you aren't sleeping – your health is in danger!!!
Heart attacks, heart disease, strokes and more have been linked to lack of sleep.
So what? You or someone you know have a simple snoring problem. What's the harm in that? Well, what you would consider a simple snoring problem, can have devastating health concerns. Even death.
Ensuring your body gets adequate sleep is crucial to your overall health. Your body needs food and water and air and sleep! Your body and brain need time every single day to re-boot itself.
When you are sleeping, your body and specifically, your heart, has an opportunity to slow down. It alleviates the tension that you've collected throughout the day. Your body needs time to decompress and gather up enough energy to face another day. When you sleep - your blood pressure decreases. Your body and brain revitalize itself. You reduce the severity of age-related diseases. You can manage illnesses such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes and memory loss.
Impaired sleep can damage your heart by exerting excessive strain and stress on the muscle. Cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, strokes and in ultimate cases, death, have all been linked, to sleep debt. Chronic sleep loss hampers your body's ability to carry out even basic metabolic functions, including regulating your hormones.
Snoring is often a warning sign to a more brutal problem, know as sleep apnea. Those that suffer from sleep apnea encounter an obstruction in their breathing airway; most times they don't even know it. This blockage prevents them from getting enough oxygen during the night. Sleep apnea has a massive affect on heart disease. Apnea sufferers cultivate high blood pressure – a major risk factor heart disease and strokes.
The dreadful results of sleep deprivation can lead to extremely poor health and even premature death. Sleep inadequacies can negatively affect your brain function, which increases your stress hormones and can lead to depression.
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Lack of sleep increases your appetite. . . .
That also affects your waistline and your pant size!
Here's a perfect world scenario. We would go to sleep at night and magically, we would wake up lighter. As simple as that. No weighing food or counting calories. No supplements or vitamins or magic pills. No strenuous exercise routines and demanding workouts. You just go to sleep and wake up thinner . . .
Wait a minute! That may sound like a dream but . . . .
. . . the truth is – a good night's sleep can help you in your weight loss goals.
Reports have proven that people who weigh less tend to get good quality, frequent shut eye. There is a definite link between good sleep and good health. When you don't get a chance to rest your body, it produces distorted quantities of a hormone that is known to control hunger. When this hormone is modified, you tend to crave high caloric foods and your appetite increases.
It's a well known fact that your hormones are affected by sleep. When you lack sleep, you are more likely to indulge and crave "comfort foods". You are more likely to reach for chips, candy, cake and chocolate instead of reaching for celery sticks and salad.
Soon after your indulgence, you might feel like you have an increase in your energy level. You'll also notice how quickly you will feel hungry again. The actual truth is, you are tired – you aren't hungry. You are substituting food for sleep. Your sleep withdrawn ‘self' will not just make poor food choices but it will make those choices frequently.
you are more prone to emotional eating when you are tired. You are less resistant and less resilient to stress and in turn, stress triggers eating. Additionally, when you are tired, you will use food to help keep you awake. Your body isn't craving food – it is craving sleep. In your drowsy state you don't recognize this.
So, a perfect world scenario? You can go to bed and whittle away your waist line with a good night's sleep. Lack of sleep increases your appetite and enlarges your pant size. Anyone looting their refrigerator at 2:30 a.m. can attest to that!
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Do you feel a little down in the dumps? Lack of sleep can intensify your depression.
Every once in awhile, everyone can say they've been a little blue. You've felt a little down in the dumps and you just don't want to deal with the day. You would just as soon pull the blanket over your head and stay put.
On occasion, encountering these feelings is normal. When these deep feelings of sadness linger, it can be the start of depression. Depression intensifies your feelings of unhappiness. It carries on for longer periods of time and it prevents you from leading a typical life.
Lack of sleep alone can't cause depression. Not getting enough sleep, however, can contribute and play a considerable role in your depression. Your depression is magnified when you don't sleep - upsetting your normal, daily schedule and disturbing your social, personal and professional life.
Established by numerous reports, people suffering from sleep disorders are more prone to developing depression and depression-like symptoms. The significance of the sleep disorder is directly related to the depression. Additionally, reports have indicated that people suffering from depression are five times (5x) more likely to encounter a breathing-related sleep disorder.
Dominant link found between antidepressant medication and sleep disorders
When you suffer from depression, your doctor will most likely prescribe an antidepressant. This drug can affect your mood and help you to overcome your illness. Having said that, some antidepressants can provoke and activate certain sleep disorders. REM Behavior Disorder – a disorder causing a sleeping person to act out their frequently aggressive dreams – has been linked to the use of antidepressants.
Doctors are noticing the affects of extended antidepressant drug use, more and more in younger patients. As people gravitate to prescription drugs - the broad use of medication is on the rise. Instead of dealing with their fundamental issues, the drugs being administered are causing entirely new sets of problems. The adverse side affects on the brain is caused by the chemicals used in manufacturing certain antidepressant medications.
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Welcome to the unemployment line.
"Honey – I've been canned. Fired from my job. Now what will be do?"
Yuck! You know that dreadful feeling when a meeting has been scheduled for the afternoon. It's only 10:00 now and all you can think about is when you can grab a nap. How are you supposed to survive the day, never mind the 3:00 meeting called for the stuffy boardroom, filled with monotonous supervisors who whine on and on and on? You plan to make a caffeine-run and perhaps a quick walk around the block just prior to the start of the meeting. OR, maybe you can curl up under your desk and hope that no one notices that you've gone missing . . . .
Weary, exhausted employees present a large burden to their corporations. They cost companies billions of dollars in lost productivity, each and every year. If you own that company – just think about the lost revenue and those horrible consequences. If you are one of those employees – imagine what the means for you. You could very well be the next statistic – the next unemployed office member.
Caffeine-stimulated and sleep withdrawn workers report a sizeable decrease in job satisfaction. When evaluated, exhausted employees indicated that their lack of sleep led to overall job dissatisfaction. Not too optimistic for employers, seeing as the common workforce is obtaining fewer and fewer hours of sleep these days.
Studies also show that individuals are leaving their jobs at an alarming rate. Sleep-deprived employees are more likely to skip work. When they are tired and agitated, they miss more work due to health-related problems. At times, they are merely too worn out to make it in to work for the day.
When employees are responsible for dealing directly with clients and customers, a company's bottom line can be negatively impacted. Weary employees basically alienate customers; treating them poorly and inadequately representing the company. The happier the worker the more fulfilled the customer.
When you are tired and aggravated, you know it's a chore to drag yourself through your workday. You are more likely to make mistakes and create inaccuracies. You don't have patience or tolerance with your co-workers, you lose motivation & focus and you lack complete desire to be at work.
On-the-job accidents and misjudgments result from lack of attention. This can lead to horrible consequences for your company and more importantly, for you. If you or a co-worker are in positions that require the operation of machinery, tools or electric gear, the slightest impairment in your judgment can lead to grave harm and even death.
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Couples experiencing sleep disorders also experience divorce lawyers
It's a setting that plays out in bedrooms - night after night - across the globe. Snoring away like a table saw, one person is in a profound sleep, unaware of those around them. The other person squanders their whole night jabbing and nudging and grumbling through another sleepless night. At some point, after countless hours staring at the ceiling, the non-snorer usually drags themselves out of bed and makes the long trek to the waiting uncomfortable couch. Oblivious to the frustration they just caused, the snorer sleeps on. Unconscious to the fact they just completely frustrated and irritated their bed partner. . . .
Here's a good tip. A good night's sleep may save your marriage.
You think "what's the harm – it's just snoring" but what you don't understand is the destruction it's taking on your relationship. You know it may be precluding you from getting's a restful night's sleep – but you aren't aware of the toll it's taking on your spouse. You don't comprehend how it's upsetting their sleep, mood and emotions as well.
If you are a habitual snorer, your bed partner's sleep is being equally as compromised. Their sleep is being altered even if they have learned to live with your grating sleep habits.
In addition to severe health problems, couples dealing with sleep apnea and snoring are also dealing with a higher rate of divorce. Both of you are worn-out and you're lacking the proper shut-eye - resulting in additional tension and stress on a marriage.
While snoring can sometimes be laughed off as a joke, the deterioration of your marriage is no laughing matter. It builds to the point where both partners simply cannot take the interrupted sleep and the ensuing emotional & physical toll on your body.
Other relationships - ones that reach beyond your bedroom walls - are also at risk of being compromised. The change in your personality and character is detected by your family, friends, co-workers and associates. A conversation that starts innocently enough, can take a dramatic turn due to your impatience, annoyance and intolerance with others. It's not the real you talking – it's the new, sleep deprived you!
An otherwise established relationship is not likely to deteriorate because of your lack of sleep. However, it can exaggerate difference and intensify existing problems. When you haven't had proper and ample rest, you have a higher chance of becoming depressed, your communication skills are affected and overall, your frustratio level increases in your relationships.
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When you don't get enough sleep, your chance of causing an accident is significantly increased!
"Up next on the 11:00 news. There is a person dead tonight, after a roll over on our roads. In was determined the driver fell asleep at the wheel . . ."
The Cook's were heading down the highway, home from their summer vacation. All their kids were safe and asleep in the back seat. Suddenly from across stopping just before a pole.
Devastated and shocked by what they had just witnessed, the Cook's made a point of reading the paper in the morning. They wanted to find out what happened to the occupants in the truck. The paper reported that the driver (the lone occupant in the vehicle) was pronounced dead at the scene. The result of the crash? The driver fell asleep at the wheel.
Impaired sleep is a major cause of accidents. Lack of sleep that results in carelessness and fatigue, play a much later role in more disasters than it ever gets reported on. When recently polled, out of all drivers that admitted to driving while feeling drowsy, more than 1/3 of them had indicated they had fallen asleep at the wheel.
You already know that lack of sleep alters a person's mood and their emotions. What you may not already know is that an individual that is sleep deprived – is comparable to someone under the influence of alcohol. Not enough sleep and too much alcohol - both affect your reaction time. Recently, a study suggested that more than 1/2 of all road accidents are caused by people that are sleep deprived.
In addition, an anticipated 20% of all workplace related injuries occur because of an individual's sleepiness. These injuries and accidents create a financial burden on society, corporations, health care systems and the individual.
When you are tired, you don't think twice about getting behind the wheel. It sounds innocent enough to drive while you are sleepy. It doesn't seem to be hurting anyone if you go about your day while you're a little tired. The truth is – it is dangerous and it is unsafe. Drowsiness is a liability that doesn't discriminate. It impairs your faculties and you make poorer judgments, your reaction time is decreased and it alters your mental & physical ability.
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The common family will dole out more money for diapers than they would to correct the sleep problem.
Dreams . . . not so sweet . . .
Making the move from the world of diapers to the world of potty-training isn't always a straightforward one. There are certain to be some concerns along the way. A few mishaps will happen. It's likely, it's unavoidable and it's inevitable – it's just part of the process. Children get preoccupied playing with their toys and before they know it, it's too late. They guzzle down their juice at snack-time and suddenly, if hits them out of the blue. An accident is going to happen on occasion. If nighttime bedwetting occurs outside the occasional accident, it could be sign that something more serious is happening with your child.
There is no health reason connected to the average child periodically wetting their bed. It's part of the process; part of acquiring independence and part of growing up. However, there is a category for children affected by a sleep disorder and more so a sleep disorder resulting in bedwetting.
Sleep apnea happens when some form of an obstruction prevents oxygen from completely reaching your lungs. Sleep apnea is the most frequent disorder associated to bed wetting in children. Studies have shown there is a substantial relationship between children dealing with sleep apnea and children who wet the bed.
When sleep apnea takes place in a child, they are merely not getting adequate or proper sleep. They don't quite go into the "deep sleep" stage and they remain in a fog-like state. While they are sleeping, it takes them more time to ‘snap out of it' and takes longer for them to become aware of their urges. This precisely impacts and decreases their response time. They aren't aware when their bladders are full and this leads to their bedwetting. Additionally, certain breathing disorders place an added pressure on their bladder resulting in an increase in urine output.
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My sex drive is non-existent. Can anyone relate?
Okay – let's confess. Not a lot of men are willing to readily talk about this topic. It's normally not a conversation theme discussed in too many locker rooms or when out with buddies. Not too many men will discuss, never mind declare, that it's an effort getting romantic. The topic is generally prohibited and classified. The only ones that usually know there is a problem are him and his partner.
Most men think the subject matter will bring forth a lot of jokes and a lot of laughter. The truth is - dealing with the difficulty of impotence is no laughing matter. It's embarrassing, awkward and frustrating.
It may be that you have no trouble getting stimulated. Fundamentally, you are healthy and physically able. The only obstacle you are trying to overcome is your lack of desire. You don't desire sex. You have no craving for intimacy. Your libido is all but imaginary.
The answer to your passionate-less nights could lie in a good night's sleep.
You know how imperative sleep is and you know how your general health is noticeably impacted when you get good sleep. Your sex life is no different. When you don't get enough shut eye, your sex life is negatively impacted. Diverse studies have revealed that sleep directly impacts a man's testosterone levels.
It's a well renowned fact that as a man begins to age, his testosterone levels starts to weaken. When high levels of the hormone are represented, it correlates into a number of factors: his blood pressure improves, he is able to lose weight easier and his hair tends to fall out quicker. Inadequate levels of testosterone are linked to a decline in libido, a decreased capacity to maintain an erection and an overall lack of sexual desire.
Sleep apnea and snoring, genuinely affect your quality of sleep. When you aren't getting enough sleep, the effects on your sex life are destructive. When inundated with sexual impotence or lack of desire, most men blame outside factors: work, stress, family obligations, money etc. The truth is - when men are bothered with a sleeping disorder, their internal body clock is upset and it results in a reduction of their libido.
Additionally, low levels of testosterone are produced by men suffering from sleep apnea or severe snoring. This inadequacy causes a decrease in libido, leads to stretches of impotence and diminishes sexual desires.
A healthy sex life and a healthy lifestyle are not mutually exclusive You need to eat a well-balanced & nutritious diet. You need to learn to control your stress and exercise your body frequently. Most importantly – you need to get sleep. A lot of sleep. Your partner will thank you.
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Daily, bountiful sleep should not be regarded as a luxury. It is an indispensable human need. You know how a deficiency in sleep affects you. You know how your personality is altered and your days are devoted to exhaustion and anxiety. Every situation aggravate you and every encounter annoys you. You shouldn't live your life this way!! You ought to wake every morning, motivated, inspired, encouraged. You should wake invigorated and revitalized.
Your #1 priority should be your health. You owe it to your spirit, your body, yourself. No more feelings of distress and uneasiness. No more contributing to your body's disease and illness. No more hurdles in your relationships, your job, your life.
It's time for a major impact to your life; time for a major upgrading. Dr. Coker's full analysis and meticulous evaluation will reveal your sleep disorder, the necessary treatment options and most importantly – a solution to your specific needs. You owe it to your loved ones and to yourself. Make the call today. You'll be glad you did.
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