Snore No More!

B'SD

12 Tevet 5771




Sleeping is supposed to restore your strength and clarity of thought. But snoring messes them up A LOT.

Here's a quick article link to Stop Snoring Now and another to an article I like to call Improve Your Memory with Better Sleep.

It's supposed to be common knowledge that a few behaviors promote better, deeper sleep:

Regular Sleep Habits that include
relaxing rituals before sleep time
and same bed-time each night.

Discussing Your Troubles and
possible solutions to them
with someone you trust
before bedtime (keeping
bedtime journals can be
helpful, too)

Letting Go of Stressful Thoughts
Before Bedtime (this includes
apologizing to people you care
about before going to sleep,
praying for insight and guidance

to deal with the issues in your life).

There are alternative healing products that promote sleep, but I hestitate to mention them. You'll be far better off with genuinely natural sleep preceded by good sleep-promoting habits.

Hoping you'll enjoy snoreless, deeper Zzzzzzz...

Holiday/travel season is a major stressor. So are terrorism fears. Take sensible precautions, pray often and reduce your to-do list. Lower your stress levels as best you can, focusing on the sweetness in your life.

Here's an item to lower your trips to the mall and your gift budget. Buy someone a stress-reducing, cost-cutting E-book entitled EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Click on the flipping pages below for a sample of the text:

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

How to Get a Good Night's Rest in 4 Simple Steps

B'SD

14 Sivan 5770

I'm among the lucky few people who do not suffer sleep problems despite traumatic injury to my brain*. But other TBI sufferers need sleeping solutions. I hope this item will help to solve your problems. It can reassure you and your loved ones that you're not "making up" a sleep disturbance problem:

Poor Sleep Persists After Brain Trauma (CME/CE)

Trouble sleeping long after traumatic brain injury may be due to disruption of both melatonin production and sleep architecture, a study has found. More than one year after traumatic brain injury, patients had significantly reduced levels of melatonin... full story at http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/HeadTrauma/tb/20276

Solutions exist. Keep to a regular sleep/wake pattern. That means:

• Relax with quiet, comforting activites such as reading or board games, pleasant conversation and the like before bedtime.
• Get to bed at the same hour nightly.
• Use your bedroom only for sleeping and dressing/undressing. Otherwise you risk too many distracting thoughts about the PC, TV, etc. Keep sleeping simple.
• Try taking Valerian capsules a hour or so before bedtime. Valerian is an herb that induces relaxation/sleep (you can buy it in health food shops and some pharmacies). Let your medical team know that you want to take it so they can advise you of any concerns.

Let me know what works for you. Sweet dreams.

Find more sleep-inducing ideas in my book. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

*I'm not TBI-certified, but lemme tell ya, brain surgery and tumor damage were no picnic. My recovery will be lifelong.

If You Have Pulmonary Fibrosis, You Need QUALITY SLEEP!

B'SD

27 Tamuz 5768

Pulmonary Fibrosis is a lung-scarring disease that perplexes medical professionals trying to treat it. The cause for PF is not known.

Today's post is for alerting you to the fact that PF causes serious breathing problems for people with this condition. They're starving for a full breath. That often ruins their deepest sleep, called REM.

REM, Rapid Eye Movement is the part of the sleep process that recharges our batteries so we can face the next day and its demands. But people with Pulmonary Fibrosis often waken at this critical time. The loss of REM sleep worsens their situation. It causes fatigue in people already struggling to breathe.



Dr. Sonya Danoff an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine wrote about the problem in Chest, a medical professional's journal. She said: "Physicians should strongly consider monitoring people with this scarring lung disease for sleep disorders as part of their standard care, because poor sleep has a profound effect on their quality of life... Essentially, the body's internal alarms go off as people enter the most rejuvenating part of sleep. And when people don't get a good night's sleep, they cannot function normally the next day. It's a slippery slope that gets progressively worse over time... Because there is so much about pulmonary fibrosis that we cannot yet fix, we need to focus on what we can fix while we wait for research to catch up with treatments that can prevent or reverse the disease."

The latest study results back up previous research by Danoff and other sleep experts at Johns Hopkins: 18 of 22 people with fibrosed lungs had problems breathing while asleep. They kept waking up in a struggle to breathe. The majority of them dropped out of R.E.M. sleep during the night, losing 25 percent of total R.E.M. sleep time. That means they dreamt less and they couldn't build energy they'd desperately need for the next day.

You know how awful you feel and function and after one bad night of poor sleep. Imagine what could happen to you over long periods of time without sufficient sleep.

If you have PF, this is a life-threatening problem.

Want more information on Pulmonary Fibrosis? See: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pulmonary/clinics/interstitial_lung_disease.html



Read my book to learn some excellent relaxation techniques. Work with your doctor if you have PF, focusing together on getting better sleep. It can prolong your life and vastly improve the QUALITY of YOUR LIFE.

Wishing you pleasant dreams and a stronger constitution,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.