Insomnia Cure

Taking insomnia pills may be of help when insomnia strikes. But there are many options for effective help today. One does not only have to resort to prescription medication.
Not being able to sleep is not only exasperating, it has such detrimental effects on not only our moods and attitudes, it has shown to affect our bodies as well.

There are many options for treating insomnia.
Life style changes, learning to not worry or allow the mind to fret while in bed, changing the environment etc. Sleeping pills can be necessary for a good nights sleep, but it does make sense to try other natural means without side effects first.

Most sleeping pills are prescribed by a physician. Those include Lunesta, Sonata, Ambien and many others. While these medications have proven to be useful they do not come without side effects. Some sleeping medications can cause allergic reactions, addictions and sleep behaviors such as “sleep driving”

Drugstores also carry over the counter sleep medications. These frequently contain anti histamines and can cause drowsiness.

The health food store is a great source for non-toxic effective aids to sleep. Herbal blends, essential oils, and Natural Medications containing the “sleep hormone” Melatonin.
A Natural Insomnia Medication containing melatonin, the “sleep hormone”
and a blend of herbs proven to be effective to get you to sleep without any negative side effects is EzDoze. Click here to receive a free trial of EZDoze found by many to be more effective than Ambien.

Finding the Underlying Cause
With a bit of persistence, and maybe a bit of help, the root cause of the insomnia can often be found. Humans are very much creatures of habit and once the pattern of not sleeping is there, or the pattern of worrying while in bed, or waking up solving one’s problems in the middle of the night, the pattern itself may be the cause of the insomnia.

One easy and most pleasant way of breaking a mental pattern, and treating insomnia without the use of pills, is to use sound frequencies that guides your brain into a natural and deep sleep.

The effects of insomnia or sleep deprivation are vast, far reaching and quite serious.

A study at the University of Chicago found physiological changes that resembled the effects of old age or early diabetes after less than one week of 4 hours of sleep per night.

The study found that during times of sleep deprivation metabolic and endocrine (hormone function) changes mimic the physiological signs of aging.
Chronic sleep loss may bring age related illnesses at an early age, along with increasing the severity of them. Hypertension, Diabetes, Memory loss, Obesity are a few examples.

The study showed that young, healthy men after being sleep deprived it took 40% longer time to normalize their blood sugar after a high-carbohydrate meal. Their ability to secrete insulin and their ability to respond to the insulin both decreased by 30%. (Insulin helps the sugar to get inside the cells where it is used as energy, when the cells do not respond to the insulin, the sugar remains in the bloodstream) This decrease in response to insulin is an early sign of diabetes.

Sleep deprivation also lowered the secretion of Thyroid Stimulation Hormone. (TSH) TSH is secreted by the pituitary gland and governs the functions of the thyroid. Another effect of insomnia or sleep deprivation found during the study was an increased level of cortisol. Cortisol is a “stress hormone” elevated during times of stress putting the body in a continous state of “fight or flight”.

When the subjects returned to an 8 hour per night amount of sleep their values quickly normalized. Interestingly though, when the subjects slept more than 8 hours per night their values improved beyond the normal range suggesting that even 8 hours of sleep may not meet our requirements.