Poor Sleep Insomnia Treatment

December 24, 2014

Poor Sleep Insomnia Treatment

Just like meals, sleep play a pivotal role in good health and wellbeing of a person. It is the only avenue through which the body rests. Everyone’s individual sleep needs vary. In general, most healthy adults are built for 16 hours of wakefulness and need an average of eight hours of sleep a night. However, some individuals are able to function without sleepiness or drowsiness after as little as six hours of sleep. Others can’t perform at their peak unless they’ve slept ten hours. And, contrary to common myth, the need for sleep doesn’t decline with age but the ability to sleep for six to eight hours at one time may be reduced. In spite of these differences the need for sleep can never be underestimated, everyone needs a good sleep to be able to perform normally.

According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), sleep is essential for a person’s health and wellbeing. But still there are millions of people who do not get enough sleep and many suffer from lack of sleep. NSF conducted survey between 1999-2004 that revealed that at least 40 million Americans suffer from over 70 different sleep disorders and 60 percent of adults report having sleep problems a few nights a week or more. Most of those with these problems go undiagnosed and untreated. In addition, more than 40 percent of adults experience daytime sleepiness severe enough to interfere with their daily activities at least a few days each month – with 20 percent reporting problem sleepiness a few days a week or more. Furthermore, 69 percent of children experience one or more sleep problems a few nights or more during a week.

Complications_of_insomnia

What is insomnia?

According to National Sleep Foundation, insomnia is difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, even when a person has the chance to do so. People with insomnia can feel dissatisfied with their sleep and usually experience the symptoms of poor sleep that may deter them from enjoying healthy lifestyles. This disease can affect people of all ages but adults are the major victims.

Symptoms of Insomnia

Irritability, depression or anxiety
Difficulty paying attention, focusing on tasks or remembering
Increased errors or accidents
Tension headaches
Distress in the stomach and intestines (gastrointestinal tract)
Ongoing worries about sleep
Difficulty falling asleep at night
Awakening during the night
Awakening too early
Not feeling well rested after a night’s sleep
Daytime tiredness or sleepiness

Types of Insomnia

Acute insomnia

This refers to a brief period of lack of sleep. This type of insomnia is mostly caused by life events and circumstances for example when you go to bed after receiving a stressful news or an unexcpected news that is too overwhelming. Acute insomnia will affect you for the least time and resolves without any medical intervention.

Chronic insomnia

Chronic insomnia is a situation when a person suffers difficulty in sleep for a longer period of time.

Insomnia is usually considered chronic if a person has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep at least three nights per week for three months or longer. Unlike acute insomnia chronic insomnia needs medical intervention to be resolved.

Comorbid insomnia

Comorbid Insomnia occurs with another condition such as anxiety and depression. Some conditions are known to induce insomnia for example depression. There are also other diseases and medications that may affect sleeping pattern and cause insomnia. This kind of insomnia that is induced by other conditions is what is called comorbid insomnia.

Onset insomnia

This refers to difficulty falling asleep when a person begin sleeping especially at the beginning of the night.

Maintenance insomnia

Maintenance Insomnia refers the inability to stay asleep. People with maintenance insomnia wake up during the night and have difficulty returning to sleep.

Causes of Insomnia

There are very many causes of insomnia. Here are some of the causes of insomnia.

Stress– when a person is stressed maybe about work or family issues his mind will be pondering on the subject of concern. An active mind makes it difficult for one to sleep. Some common stressors that may lead to insomnia include illness, job issues or even death of a loved one.

Anxiety– Anxiety is a common everyday problem. However there are more serious anxiety disorders like PTSD which will never give your brain a rest. Anxiety beckons insomnia and so should be avoided to help you sleep soundly and reap huge health benefits from it.

Depression- You might either sleep too much or have trouble sleeping if you’re depressed. Insomnia often occurs with other mental health disorders as well.

Medical conditions-there are conditions that will never let you sleep. These conditions may include; chronic pain, chest problems and even frequent urination. These conditions may cause difficulty in sleep. Diseases like cancer, arthritis, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and even Parkinson’s disease have been linked to insomnia.

Insomnia Treatment

There are adjustments that one can make personally to reduce instances of insomnia. These may include avoiding stress, eating early and avoiding thoughts that may invoke emotions just before going to bed. However there are also medical approaches to treating insomnia. These may include; cognitive behavioral therapy. We at AWAREmed health and wellness center are dedicated to finding the best natural solutions to health problems. You can visit us at Myrtle Beach South Carolina where you will be attended to by Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) who has vast experience in integrative medicine for lifestyle diseases.

Poor Sleep Insomnia Treatment

Sleep Deprivation can Lead to health complications in all Seasons

December 18, 2014

Sleep Deprivation can lead to health complications in all Seasons – Are you planning to have enough sleep this holidays?

Sleep Deprivation can lead to health complications in all seasons. The effect of not having enough sleep is not to be taken lightly.

Are you having enough sleep? The merits or demerits of whichever side you belong is what we want to handle in this article. We are privileged to have able and experienced experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center a facility established by Doctor Akoury primarily to help you overcome your weight challenges. This is a great medical professional who has been in this practice for over two decades and has impacted positively in many people’s lives globally. As we begin the discussion, you may need to schedule for an appointment with her for a more elaborate weight loss solutions programs. None the less sleep deprivation is the condition of not having enough sleep by an individual; it can be either chronic or acute. Take a moment and visualize about it if you’re feeling sleepy at work for instance, you may be tempted to reach for a cup of coffee or may be more and a doughnut for a quick shot of energy. Don’t you think that is a possibility? Later you may skip the gym and pick up take away on your way home to your family no time to cook, are you already a victim? When you finally retire on your bed, you are too wound up to sleep.

A good night’s sleep is one of the keys to good health and may also be a key to maintaining a healthy weight. There is mounting evidence that people who get too little sleep have a higher risk of weight gain and obesity than people who get seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Given our societies increasing tendency to burn the midnight oil in our busy schedules and tight work deadlines many people are not having enough sleep. The working hours have become so inadequate to many and this result in people opting to sacrifice some of their sleep time to complete the various assignments they have. The other groups of people who do not have enough sleep are those alcohol drinkers. Majority of this group and particularly the addicts take long hour in their drinking joint sometimes even up early morning hours, only to report back to their work stations the following day. The result of this is that very little time is left for sleeping no wonder studies have established that up to 26% of adult are not having adequate sleep. This may have great impact on overweight and obesity epidemic in our societies today.

Sleep Deprivation can lead to health complications in all Seasons – The best path to a healthy weight may be a good night’s sleep

In appreciating the role of adequate sleep, let us try to understand certain finding from the previous studies conducted by the experts. For decades experts have known that adults who sleep for say fewer than five or six hours a night are subjecting themselves to higher risk of being overweight. While children who sleep for less than 10 hours a night is associated with weight gain. However today, a fascinating new study suggests that the link may be even more treacherous than previously thought. For instance losing just a few hours of sleep a few nights in a row can lead to almost immediate weight gain. Let us consider the findings from sleep researchers at the University of Colorado where study of 16 healthy men and women for a two-week experiment tracking sleep, metabolism and eating habits was conducted. The subjects stayed in a special room that allowed researchers to track their metabolism by measuring the amount of oxygen they used and carbon dioxide they produced. Every bite of food was recorded, and strict sleep schedules were imposed.

During the first week of the study, half the people were allowed to sleep nine hours a night while the other half stayed up until about midnight and then could sleep up to five hours. Everyone was given unlimited access to food. In the second week, the nine-hour sleepers were then restricted to five hours of sleep a night, while the sleep-deprived participants were allowed an extra four hours.

Sleep Deprivation can lead to health complications in all Seasons – Finding from the Study

Remarkably, the researchers found that staying up late and getting just five hours of sleep increased a person’s metabolism. Sleep-deprived participants actually burned an extra 111 calories a day. But even though we burn more calories when we stay awake, losing sleep is not a good way to lose weight. The light sleepers ended up eating far more than those who got nine hours of sleep, and by the end of the first week the sleep-deprived subjects had gained an average of about two pounds.

During the second week, members of the group that had originally slept nine hours also gained weight when they were restricted to just five hours. And the other group began to lose some (but not all) of the weight gained in that first sleep-deprived week.

Sleep Deprivation can lead to health complications in all Seasons – Behavioral change

Behavioral change may be very significant in all this like for instance, staying up late and skipping on sleep led to not only more eating, but a shift in the type of foods a person consumed. It has been established that when people are deprived of their sleep they tend to overeat more on carbohydrates. They ate more food, and their feeding pattern also changes. In other words they eat a smaller breakfast and a lot more after dinner. It may surprise you to note that sleep deprivation or sleep-deprived eaters may end up a cumulating more calories after-dinner snacking than in any other meal during the day. However in over all people consumed 6 percent more calories when they are deprived of sleep.

Nonetheless when individuals begin to have adequate sleep, their feeding also changes. In fact they will begin eating more healthy food by consuming reasonable units of carbohydrates and fats. Doctor Akoury explains that the effect of sleep deprivation on weight may be comparable in the real world even though this may not be noticeable if individuals are under study in an enclose setup. However there is clear evidence that by depriving yourself of sleep, you are literally changing your internal timings which may intern influence the changes in eating habits.

Finally it is very interesting that when we are struggling with so many things to lose weight, the little thing we often ignore could be very helpful for our weight loss programs. I would want to encourage you that lack of knowledge could be the problem to your weight condition. Schedule for an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today and be informed adequately about your weight concerns.

Sleep Deprivation can lead to health complications in all Seasons – Are you planning to have enough sleep this holidays?

Sleep and Weight Gain

July 26, 2014

Sleep and Weight Gain – What you should do

Sleep and Weight Gain. Studies have indicated that sleep deprivation is related to weight gain. Sleep well and keep fit.

Could lack of sleep be causing you to gain weight? Do you have any idea how this is happening? Confusing indeed but in a moment I will be telling you how sleep is associated with weight gain and from the information you are just a bout to get you will be able to tell whether your weight problem is related you your sleeping patterns on not and depending on your findings you will make very informed decision going forward. Now let me ask you as we start the discussion how often do you sleep or dose at your workplace? Ponder about that for a while and if your answer is yes then what are you doing about it?

In order to fight that sleep a way probably you may have reached out for a cup of coffee or more and some doughnuts for an immediate shot of energy and before you know it you have just forgot your day’s schedule of exercising and on your way home you pick some junk food home for dinner because time for home cooking is not there. When all these are finally done you are back in bed too wound up to sleep. This then becomes consistent and ultimately the consistency of inadequacy of sleep sabotages your waistline and your health. Wait a minute you’re facing the challenges of weight gain. My dear reader it normally starts in unnoticeable ways like that. With the problem of sleep deprivation and low energy, you will repeatedly go for a portion of potato chips or other comfort foods.

The ultimate result

Unwanted pounds due to poor food choices together with lack of exercise set the stage for obesity and further sleep loss. To illustrate this further the debt of sleep is the replica of credit card debt where all accruing credit card debt you will settle with high interest rates and if you don’t, your account will be shut down until you pay it all off. Therefore accruing too much sleep debt only leads your body crash. You must ensure that you do not brag about your strength of staying up all night because it is not in fact it is a weakness because you do pay a price for staying up late and getting up early.

Understanding the Sleep-Diet Connection

Hardly will you find sleep-diet connection being addressed by most diet authors and probably you have even heard about the sleep diet, which suggests you can lose weight while you catch your ZZZs. Have you? It’s worth noting that not so much that if you sleep, you will lose weight however when you are sleep-deprived (i.e. meaning that you are not getting enough time of sleep or good quality sleep), your metabolism will not function properly. On average people need about 7.5 hours of quality sleep per night and if you are getting this already, a slight increase of say half hour will not help you lose 10 pounds, but on the other hand if you are used to sleeping for say five-hour and you increase this to seven hours a night, you will start shading off some weight.

How specifically will lack of sleep affects one’s ability to lose weight will have a lot to do with our nightly hormones. We have two hormones which are very instrumental in this process and they are ghrelin and leptin.

Ghrelin is the ‘go’ hormone that tells you when to eat, and when you are sleep-deprived, you have more ghrelin.

Leptin is the hormone that tells you to stop eating, and when you are sleep deprived, you have less leptin.

More ghrelin plus less leptin equals weight gain i.e. you are eating more, plus your metabolism is slower when you are sleep-deprived.

The Sleep-Weight Loss Solution

The big question here is, what can you do about sleep deprivation?

First, look at how much you sleep vs. how well you sleep – Some people such as new mothers may only get to sleep for a four-hour stretch. And there are some people who get 7.5 hours of sleep that is poor quality because of pain or an underlying sleep disorder, and this has the same effect as if they got less sleep.

Trouble-shoot both with improved sleep hygiene and for beginners avoid any caffeine in the afternoon because it will keep you in the lighter stages of sleep which are associated with poor sleep at night.

Exercise also helps improve sleep quality. How soon before bed should you exercise? It depends with the individuals because everyone is different. It’s more important that you exercise than it is when you exercise and to be safe avoid exercise right before going to bed even though some people exercise better before bed and it doesn’t affect their sleep.

Take interest on what you’re feeding on before bed time like for instance foods and drinks like pizza and beer before bedtime is not a good idea. It is also not recommended that you eat a big meal moments to bedtime instead eating a few healthy snacks and then having a light meal like a bowl of cereal if you’re running close to bedtime. Heavy, rich meals before bed can also increase risk of heartburn, which will certainly keep you up all night.

Finally I ask what if you are getting enough hours of sleep but wake up and feel sleepy the next day? Talk to your doctor about seeing a sleep specialist. After conducting a thorough evaluation and sleep study, in which you are monitored while sleeping, the sleep specialist can help identify any underlying problem. Together you can develop a treatment plan so that you get more high-quality sleep and maybe even slim down. But generally in all these doctor Dalal Akoury of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center will be there for you for any obesity and weight related problems you may have. Together with her team of experts they will focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

Sleep and Weight Gain – What you should do

Sleep Disorders and Lyme disease

March 3, 2014

Sleep Disorders and Lyme disease-Discussed

Lyme disease can be avoided if sleep disorder is avoided. Get good sleep

You would normally think that by feeling sick it would be so easy to fall asleep! This theory disturbed my mind and I decided to do a bit of research to find some of the common types of sleep disorders, possible causes, the effects of sleep deprivation, how it ties into Lyme disease, and what we can do to try to get a full night of rest. Having a sleep disorder is a broad term for many types of disturbances in one’s sleep.

Sleep deprivation is considered a condition and is a general term of not having enough sleep. This can be chronic, or it can only least for a short period of time. It is a common occurrence, as with healthy people 1 out of 5 people suffer from sleep deprivation. According to sleepfoundation.org, they recommend an adult to have 7 to 9 hours of sleep. Having a chronic illness however, you might need a few more hours to feel more refreshed. Careful though! According to researchers, there IS such a thing as too much sleep, that can leave you feeling even less restored.

There are two types of sleep. Rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM). REM sleep is the level of sleep where dreaming occurs, and accounts for about 20% your night of sleep. NREM accounts for the 80% of your sleep, and is divided into 4 stages. One and two are light sleep; three and four are deep sleep. Deep sleep is also known as slow wave sleep (SWS) actually begin a few minutes after you fall asleep and is the most refreshing and restorative type of sleep you have. This right here is why you feel more restored if you take a short nap versus a long one!

These SWS is only about 10-20% of your sleep, but it is needed for cell and musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, your cardiovascular system, normalizes blood pressure, hormones, and your metabolic system.

Hypersomnia

Hypersomnia is a term for a large group of disorders characterized by daytime sleepiness.

Insomnia

Insomnia means sleeplessness, the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep.

There are 3 subcategories of these two different categories: intrinsic, meaning from within the body, extrinsic, meaning pathological conditions and disturbances of circadian rhythm, which means the physical mental and behavioral changes that follow a 24 hour cycle.

Sleep Disorders and Lyme disease-Types of sleep disorders

Sleep Apnea is more common disorder among Lyme patients. Sleep apnea means you have one more pauses or shallow breaths in your sleep. Some explanations for Lyme patients having this condition are that most chronic Lyme’s have neurological dysfunction. With the Neuro dysfunction of the palara and uvula are a possible cause. Brain abnormalities are reasoning for this to occur is the floppiness tissues in the back of the throat. Lyme patients with this condition seem to:

Involuntarily grinding or clenching your teeth while sleeping. It can interfere with sleep, and could be a high contributor to jaw pain and headaches as well. Cranial sacral therapy is a good choice to help ease the symptoms if you are suffering from this.

Delayed sleep phase disorder, (or DSPD) is the inability to awaken and fall asleep at socially acceptable times but will stay asleep. This is a disorder of circadian rhythms.

Sleep Disorders and Lyme disease-Symptoms of sleep disorder

Poor immune system function, higher blood pressure (higher risk of heart attack or stroke), being overweight (can cause diabetes among other health issues), clenching teeth at night, decreased body temperature, tremors, fibromyalgia symptoms, extreme fatigue and a variety of psychological effects.

Effects of psychology: Of course your psyche is going to be a little off teeter without enough sleep. Some of these issues include symptoms similar to ADHD, hallucinations, slower reaction time, depression, anxiety, irritability, memory lapses, among other issues. That’s a lot. Shows how important it is to get a good night’s rest.

Sleep Disorders and Lyme disease-There are many causes of sleep disorders

Nutritional deficiencies: the main one being magnesium. It is very common among Lyme’s. A magnesium deficiency can cause an array of problems along with sleep disruptions. Others to consider are calcium, folic acid, iron, and your B vitamins (especially B6 and 12) to name a few. I should note though, don’t take your B’s too close to bed! Yes, you need them, but they can cause you to have a harder time falling asleep as well as cause vivid dreams.

Hormone imbalances: Check your Cortisol levels! Cortisol = stress hormone. When it is high (another common abnormality of Lyme’s), it can cause you to not be able to fall asleep. Reduced levels in testosterone in men can cause sleep apnea. Women’s number one hormone issue associated with sleeping problems is lower progesterone levels.

Low blood sugar: Try sticking with a healthy diet for tips to eat a proper diet for those with Lyme disease. Stress can hinder sleep because it produces two things called epinephrine and non-epinephrine, which stimulate the nervous system, which triggers a fight or flight” response in your body, keeping you up. HPA and ACTH, two chemicals responsible in stress response mostly related to an external stressor, AKA Lyme, can also keep you awake at night.

Lack of darkness: I know this isn’t a physiological problem, like I have listed above, but I felt like it deserved to be up here. Before you go to sleep, your body starts producing melatonin, a chemical in your body that makes you sleep and is essential for a restful sleep. This chemical continues to be produced when you are sleeping, with its highest production between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Experts say that without total darkness, the effects of this are much less, causing a lessened effect.

There are other causes are ones that we ourselves can do our best to stop doing, as we might not even be aware that our habits are keeping us awake at night. Poor sleep planning is the main one. Trying to go to bed and wake up at the same time and having a schedule is very important. Working night shifts can cause sleep problems since it causes your body to get out of a normal sleeping pattern, caffeine and other stimulants (check your meds, some have stimulants you might not be aware of!), sleeping with your pets (they can get up and down, or move too much), eating too close to bedtime (digestion disrupting sleep), alcohol and nicotine, exercising too close to bedtime (yeah us Lyme’s are super active!.. but you know what I mean), ELECTRONIC DEVICES IN THE BEDROOM, among other things that we can change ourselves and try to help aide us get a good night’s rest.

The main issue with sleep deprivation and Lyme is that without a good night’s rest, you are hindering the healing process. Sleep fixes and restores what you did during the day, and believe it or not, when treating Lyme, our bodies’ peak at fighting the little bastards when we are asleep.

So what does one do when they just can’t get to sleep or stay asleep?

Well, there are many things you can do, whether it is by your own actions or things you can personally do, or take natural supplements or pharmaceuticals to be able to aid in this process such as a sleep schedule, substances, electronics, and need for darkness, but others include avoiding stimulating activity right before bed, meditation, or taking a warm bath before bedtime.

Sleep Disorders and Lyme disease-Discussed

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity

February 19, 2014

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity-But why

Many people don’t know that Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the world over and especially more developed countries. The problem is so common among adolescents. A substantial impact on public health could be achieved if other factors causing obesity besides the conventional ones of diet and physical activity could be identified and acted upon.

The present study investigates whether there is a link between low sleep quality and obesity in a cross-sectional sample of male and female adolescents ages 11–16 years old (Heartfelt Study). Sleep quality was expressed as two variables that is total sleep time and sleep disturbance time within 24-hour wrist actigraphy. A percent of body fat and body mass index (BMI) were used together to define obesity.

The potential influence of demographic and behavioral confounders was considered in models that described the relation of sleep to obesity occurrence. Obese adolescents experienced less sleep than no obese adolescents (P < 0.01). For each hour of lost sleep, the odds of obesity increased by 80%. Sleep disturbance was not directly related to obesity in the sample, but influenced physical activity level (P < 0.01). Daytime physical activity diminished by 3% for every hour increase in sleep disturbance. The above observations were independent of potential confounding variables. Inadequate and poor sleep quality in adolescents may be important factors to consider in the prevention of childhood obesity.

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity -What is Insomnia?

Insomnia is a sleep disorder that millions of people all over the world have to live with. Individuals with insomnia find it difficult to either fall asleep or stay a sleep. Its commonly leads to daytime sleepiness and general feeling of being unwell both physically and mentally.

Although insomnia can affect people at any age, it is more common in adult females than adult males. The sleeping disorder can undermine school and work performance, as well as being a cause of obesity, anxiety, depression, irritability, concentration problems, memory problems, poor immune system function, and reduced reaction time. Insomnia has also been associated with a higher risk of developing chronic diseases.

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity-What Causes Insomnia?

Insomnia can be caused by physical factors as well as psychological factors. There is often an underlying medical condition that causes chronic insomnia, while transient insomnia may be due to a recent event or occurrence.

 Disruptions in circadian rhythm: jet lag, job shift changes, high altitudes, noisiness, hotness or coldness

 Psychological issues: people with mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder or depression, as well as anxiety disorders or psychotic disorders are more likely to have insomnia.

 Medical conditions: brain lesions and tumors, stroke, chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, congestive heart failure, angina, acid-reflux disease (GERD), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, sleep apnea, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, hyperthyroidism, arthritis

 Hormones: estrogen, hormone shifts during menstruation

 Other factors: sleeping next to a snoring partner, parasites, genetic conditions, overactive mind, pregnancy

 Media technology in the bedroom – researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland, reported in the journal BMC Public Health that media technology in the bedroom disrupts sleep patterns in children. They found that children with TVs, computers, video games, DVD players and mobile phones in their bedrooms slept considerably less than kids without these devices in their bedrooms.

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity -How is insomnia treated?

Some types of insomnia resolve themselves when the underlying cause is removed or wears off. In general, treating insomnia focuses on determining the cause of the sleeping problems. Once identified, this underlying cause can be properly treated or corrected. In addition to treating the underlying cause of insomnia, both medical and non-pharmacological (behavioral) treatments may be employed as adjuvant therapies.

Natural approaches to treating insomnia include:

Improving “sleep hygiene” – don’t over- or under-sleep, exercise daily, don’t force sleep, try to maintain a regular sleep schedule, avoid caffeine at night, do not smoke, do not go to bed hungry, make sure the environment is comfortable
Using relaxation techniques – such as meditation and muscle relaxation
Cognitive therapy – one-on-one counseling or group therapy
Stimulus control therapy – only go to bed when sleepy, refrain from TV, reading, eating, or worrying in bed, set an alarm for the same time every morning (even weekends), avoid long daytime naps
Sleep restriction – decrease the time spent in bed and partially deprive your body of sleep so you are more tired the next night.

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity–What is Depression?

Many people are depressed but don’t know it. Others may seem depressed to friends but really aren’t. It seems that we all have stereotypes of what depression is, but they aren’t always accurate in reality. One way to understand depression is to see it as consisting of two factors, or primary components. They are the psychological or “cognitive” component which affects mood, and the physical or “somatic” component which influences areas such as sleep and appetite. Viewing depression in this way sometimes helps to determine the primary cause of the problem.

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity -Natural solutions of Depression

Exercise – There is no doubt that regular physical exercise and activity is the cheapest and most efficient way to control your mood. Not only do exercise release brain chemicals which fight depression, it also gives a person a greater sense of control over his or her life.

Get rid of anger – Remember, an old definition of depression is “anger turned inward.” Unresolved resentment can damage both your relationships and health. Chronic anger and hostility can be your worst enemies. If anger is a problem, try taking an anger or stress management class to learn techniques to ward off long-standing angry feelings.

Keep a positive attitude – There is an entire field called “positive psychology,” which has grown from research that indicates the people with positive attitudes fight disease better and live healthier lives. I know it’s easier said than done, but remember the famous saying of Abraham Lincoln… “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Don’t take yourself too seriously – This is a tip that I’ve learned both from my own life and many of my patients. Humor is an important part of life. Some people have the ability to laugh at themselves, while others don’t. And each day, everything changes anyway. Laughing is good for all of us. Seeing the silly parts of life may give you a fresh point of view and change your mood.

Stay motivated – Try to set a goal for yourself, and then develop a plan of simple, small steps to get to the goal. Perhaps exercise is a good place to start. The keys to motivation are to not get overwhelmed with a goal that is too big or unrealistic, and to write things down to keep track of progress.

Talk to someone – If you were seeing a mental health professional before treating your obesity, keep in touch with them after as well. Remember, treating your obesity has a major emotional impact, and your life will change. Although these changes are mostly for the better, it is a good idea to have someone other than family or friends to talk to as you adjust to your new life.

If poor sleep insomnia and Depression is causing obesity in your life, help is on the way with doctor Akoury of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center. In this facility Doctor Akoury focuses on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

Poor sleep insomnia and Depression will cause obesity-But why

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