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March 3, 2010
In Today's Issue
- Fact: Poor Sleep Increases The Risk of Death/ Disease
- A Good Night's Makes Us Better
- Ex-soldier Fitness Trainer Reveals Military's Top Secret...
Fact: Poor Sleep Increases The Risk of Death/ Disease
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A Good Night's Makes Us Better
Dear Reader,
If you're searching for a way to be more creative, more innovative, more on your game, an unexpected bit of advice is to get a good night's sleep.
An abundance of research now proves that getting enough sleep gives you the edge to help you perform at your best, be more creative, have stronger long-term memory and preservation of important memories.
Where once sleeping was dismissed as down time, research now knows that sleep has distinct stages that cycle through the night, and that your brain does stay active during sleep, with different things happening during each stage of sleep.
"It turns out we are not like TiVo," explains Dr. Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School who also serves as director of Boston's Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, comparing our mind to the video recording device. "TiVo is good at recording one station while it shows you another. We can't do that. We can't simultaneously take in information and process it."
He believes that sleep helps in the information processing part of the equation, maybe giving the brain a chance to go "offline" for a while and then shift into a different mode that's evolved over time to help us perform memory processing.
Research points to REM sleep (the stage of rapid eye movement) as being the time when issues are resolved and new information tucked away or discarded.
Stickgold points out that when faced with a big decision, few of us say, "I'll go out for a hamburger." What do we do? We sleep on it...
Just why sleep is so crucial for memories is still a mystery, although the mystery is starting to be unraveled.
Another researcher in the area of sleep and memory, assistant professor of psychology Jessica Payne of the University of Notre Dame, has found that a good night's sleep can result in better inferential ability.
Evidence from her work suggests that when you sleep you learn the hierarchy of information and the more sophisticated relationships. "Sleep is not only important for your ability to remember," Payne says, "but it also helps you be more creative, find more interesting and distant connections and be more innovative."
And while there's no public service initiative to promote the benefits of a good night's sleep, the experts are calling for that to change.
Sleep depravation has been linked to all kinds of troublesome conditions, not just obesity (because it disrupts insulin regulation), but high blood pressure and heart disease as well.
Continues below...
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A Good Night's Makes Us Better Continued...
Beyond this, lack of sleep also has well documented ties to weakened immunity and memory. Accidents are a well-known risk of driving or operating machinery when people are routinely not getting the amount of sleep they need - in fact, drowsy driving has been shown to be the same as driving drunk.
So what's the right amount of sleep to get? The amount varies from person to person and needs change throughout our lives. Most adults require 7 to 8 hours each night -newborns sleep 16-18 hours a day; preschooler's 10-12 hours a day; school age and teens need about 9 hours a night.
Stickgold has a suggestion to see if you're getting the amount of sleep you need. "Watch what happens on the weekend if you don't set an alarm," he advises. "If you sleep more than you sleep during the week, you aren't getting enough sleep. Try for one week to sleep for eight hours a night and see if things get better or worse."
Once you do, Stickgold believes you'll see for yourself how things you do every day get easier. And you might find some life saving health benefits as well, all without pills and just as close as your bedroom.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=112842
Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., associate professor, psychiatry, Harvard Medical School:
http://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/220/Robert+Stickgold+PhD
Jessica Payne, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychology, University of Notre Dame:
http://psychology.nd.edu/people/JessicaPayne.shtml
MedicineNet info on healthy sleep:
http://www.medicinenet.com/sleep/article.htm
Tips for getting better sleep:
http://www.helpguide.org/life/sleep_tips.htm
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