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Sleep Starved
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A site by insomniacs and for insomniacs who are looking for something new…
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How to get the sleep you need: An argument with the experts
Those of us who have trouble sleeping get tired of hearing the same old advice, the same half dozen rules we read everywhere. Avoid caffeine, alcohol, and big meals late at night. Don’t exercise or engage in stimulating activities near bedtime, such as reading or watching TV in bed. Try taking a hot bath [...]
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THINGS TO HELP YOU SLEEP, III
From HuffPo, a suggestion from stress management author Debbie Mandel, from Chinese herbal medicine: “Put feet in a pot of hot water for one minute and then alternate in pot of cold water for 30 seconds. Do this three times. This releases toxins from your feet — … The heat circulates the blood and the [...]
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Things to help you sleep, II
Here are some things readers have written me about or that I’ve heard about:
A megadose dose of Vitamin D – a couple thousand mgs.
CRANKY BABY: an aromatherapy spritzer that promises to transform babies from cranky to sweet-tempered. It combines chamomile, tangerine, and sweet orange. This woman swore it did wonders for her.
A few teaspoons of lemon [...]
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Things to help you sleep…
I threw out a lot of suggestions, in Insomniac, for things to quiet a racing mind. I wrote about “mind machines,” with earphones that pump electronic music at you and goggles that flash pink and green –you can barely sustain a thought with these, let alone a racing mind. I wrote about “brain music” that’s made [...]
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To Med Or Not To Med
Insomniac was shortlisted for the Gregory Bateson Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, for being ”interdisciplinary, experimental, and innovative.”
http://sca.culanth.org/prizes/bateson/bateson.htm
Check out my blog on Huffington Post about sleep meds. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gayle-greene/to-med-or-not-to-med_b_276122.html
Check out this cool article by Rubin Naiman, “How Cool Is Your Sleep?” It’s about how important it is to cool down, to get good sleep.
http://www.drnaiman.com/newsletter/october-2009
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NEW RESEARCH ON GENETIC DETERMINANTS OF SLEEP NEED
Of all the useless advice I’ve ever had for insomnia—and there’s been plenty— the most irksome is this: you’re probably getting all the sleep you need, don’t worry about it—just buck up and get a grip, change your attitude, you’ll be fine. Actually, I’m pretty clear about how much sleep I need; when I feel [...]
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“Studying Insomnia”
“Studying Insomnia,” Nature Medicine, 15, 481, 2009
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15/n5/full/nm0509-481.html
“This book is written with clarity, empathy and knowledge. Carefully collected and updated scientific data are intermingled with experts’ opinions and patients’ reports. The result is an intriguing journey into the objective and subjective worlds of insomnia and insomniacs, a ‘combined view’ that makes the book unique….
INSOMNIAC will [...]
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INSOMNIAC GOES TO SLEEP
…to the sleep meetings, that is, SLEEP2009, Seattle. (No, not to sleep, not at a conference— I was as sleepless in Seattle this year as I was in 2002, as I was all the other years… this is my 8th annual sleep conference.)
But there’s been some progress since 2002. There’s more recognition that insomnia [...]
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You see, we’re not crazy after all
“Study links primary insomnia to a neurochemical abnormality in young and middle-aged adults. The study is the first to show a specific neurochemical difference in the brains of adults with primary insomnia.”
At last! I knew it, I said it in INSOMNIAC: insomnia is not (necessarily) about psychopathology, it’s about neurophysiology I always knew there was [...]
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Books to sleep by
As an insomniac, I’m often asked, “what do you do when you wake up in the middle of the night —get up and work?” Work? Ha! People have this notion that insomnia gives you all this extra time to get things done. No way. I’m braindead on 2-3-4 [...]
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Why I wrote INSOMNIAC
10-15% of the U.S. adult population suffers with insomnia chronically. Yet in 2005, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) spent a mere $20 million researching insomnia. That same year, Sanofi Aventis spent $123 million advertising Ambien.
I’ve had insomnia as long as I can remember. I remember my [...]
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