Archive for June, 2010

For some, there are threats everywhere. They fear the world is dangerous and, unless they stay in a constant state of vigilance, their lives will be at risk. In a small number of cases, this gets out of control and tips into paranoia and mental disorder. For the majority, it”s an exaggerated caution because they do not understand how modern technology works. They see how dangerous electricity can be and so are cautious when using powered equipment, particularly when that involves the use of “radiation”. Now there”s a word to get the conspiracy theorists into action. Yet, from a scientific point of view, you cannot escape the fact that television and computer screens give off electromagnetic radiation (EMR), handphones rely on microwave broadcasts, and then there”s light. In coherent form as a laser, it can potentially blind people. As it shines from the sun, we can see our way and, with appropriate protection from ultraviolet, live healthy lives.

The white light we “see” is in fact made up of all the colors blended together. Each color has a property of its own and you may have seen increasing publicity given to light as a treatment for skin problems like acne. When it”s projected from a TV or computer screen, you get both the EMR and light in the visible spectrum, often with a slightly bluish tinge. For the treatment of skin problems, blue and red are used. For the treatment of sleep disorders, blue and green are being used in a series of clinical trials. It”s perhaps slightly ironic, but those who felt an effect from television and computer screens were probably right, except that the effect seems to be beneficial if you want to change your sleeping times.

We know when to sleep because our internal clock is set to match the local daily cycle. If we move to different time zones so that morning is now night, this confuses us and we find it difficult to match local time for sleep. As a trial, a number of people were cut off from the world in rooms without windows or clocks. There was no way for them to tell how much time was passing. The research team kept them awake for fifty hours and then allowed sleep for eight. When awake, half were exposed to blue light, the other to green. All the participants were carefully monitored and it was found that both colors could reset the internal clocks. The only difference between the two groups was that dim blue and bright green lights were less effective. The relevant neurotransmitters and hormones responded more precisely to bright blue and dim green.

So, in all situations where the sleep problem is caused by the body”s circadian rhythms not being properly synchronised to local time, the use of light may well prove the best long-term solution. Although a drug like ambien can and does produce sleep “on demand”, there are always problems if you come to depend on a drug for any long-term solution. Ambien will always help you get needed rest, but the use of alternative methods is preferable. As counseling and therapy is expensive and often not covered by health insurance plans, the development of light treatment may come as a simple and cheap solution to sleep problems.

Even before the recession hit, people were being asked to work longer to help keep costs under control. When the economy decided to collapse, those who still had jobs were expected to pick up the slack generated by those unlucky enough to be terminated. This has seen people spending more time at work during the conventional day, or working complicated shift patterns. When you add in the commuting times and the need to have some kind of life outside the workplace, sleep has come under pressure. With more people getting less sleep, there have been falls in productivity and increases in the number of accidents. People deprived of sleep make more mistakes and lose their concentration when operating machinery. There are different suggestions for how to deal with these problems. Some believe a short nap improves performance. Others have yet another cup of coffee. A small percentage have been using stimulant drugs to keep themselves going. In its own right, it can be quite dangerous to take stimulants over a longer period of time.

This month sees the publication of another Cochrane meta-analysis. This time, it’s re-evaluating thirteen studies looking at the behavior of younger people in simulated conditions. The basic methodology is to disrupt their natural sleep patterns and then give them a series of different tasks to perform including simulations of driving and flying. Different groups are then allowed to take a nap, asked to work with different types of lighting in operation, or given a placebo, coffee or other drinks and substances suggested as effective boosts to performance. Overall, coffee has emerged as the most positive “intervention”. Except there are problems in drawing any firm real-world conclusions. How young people may react is not necessarily any guide to the way older workers might react when going through shift or other changes to sleeping times. More importantly, the methods used mainly tested mental alertness, i.e. how well participants could memorise, calculate and concentrate on different tasks. This is no guide as to what might happen to accident rates if the majority of workers operating machinery suddenly began to drink large amounts of coffee while on the job.

There’s no doubt that feeling sleepy and tired on the job reduces concentration, demotivates and leads to more mistakes being made. Given coffee’s power to boost alertness, this should be a benefit to the workplace. Except there’s ample research evidence of increasingly poor performance among young doctors who are forced to be on call for long periods of time. They do not find drinking coffee reduces their capacity for error. Nor is taking ambien or an equivalent sleeping pill the answer. If people are not getting enough sleep or their natural sleep patterns are being disrupted, taking a sleeping pill may actually make the problem worse. For example, a person who takes either the conventional tablet or ambien cr should be prepared to spend at least eight hours asleep. If only six hours is available, forcing wakefulness while the active chemical ingredients are still active in the bloodstream does not produce an alert person reporting for work. There always comes a point when people must be allowed to catch up on their sleep and restore a natural rhythm.

The time we spend asleep should all be restful. For the sake of those with whom we share our beds, we should lie still and make as little noise as possible. For our own sakes, we should be able to wake feeling refreshed. Unfortunately, the allocated time for sleeping can be filled with movement, noise and disturbed sleep. The main classification of sleep disorders involving movement and behavior is called parasomnia. It comes into play as partial awakening as you slip into and out of REM sleep, or just as you are falling asleep or slowly waking up. As to movement, some sleepers regularly move their arms and legs around. In most cases, this will be determined, but relatively gentle. In a few cases, the movements can be quite violent. Then there is sleepwalking. This affects children as they approach their teens and about 5% of adults at various times during their life. In most cases, people simply move around the home and then return to bed. But a few go through household routines involving eating or, in rare cases, driving. Obviously, at such times, the sleepers may be a danger to themselves in picking entirely unsuitable things to eat, or in attempting to control a vehicle while semiconscious.

One of the more interesting of the parasomnias is the so-called sleep or night terrors. Everyone dreams. This is marked by rapid eye movement (REM). In most cases, we have no memory of the dreams. It’s only if the dreams come while we are beginning to approach consciousness that we can understand and remember the content of the dream. Most of the time, we have sweet dreams with only the occasional nightmare. However, in a small number of people (estimated to affect about 2% of the adult population at some point during their lives), dreams turn into physical panic. This is not the usual REM dream. This is a moment of complete panic as the dreamer attempts to wake. He or she may move convulsively, shout in fear, and perhaps sit up. Then, he or she will turn over and return to full sleep. There’s usually no memory of this when waking naturally in the morning.

This disorder most often affects people who have recently been through a traumatic experience and they will have terror attacks most nights unless they go through therapy to come to terms with the psychological causes of the repeated fear. In such people, the use of sleeping pills like ambien is not recommended. Sleeping pills are a highly effective way of ensuring people get to sleep or stay asleep during the night. But they are not a form of psychotherapy. If someone is suffering from an anxiety or stress disorder, taking ambien may actually make the problems worse. There are an increasing number of instances where people on sleeping pills are sleepwalking. These pills do not ensure that people remain inactive during their sleep. For night terrors, the only drugs likely to be effective are for the control of anxiety disorders or antidepressants. This article should reinforce the idea that you should always get a doctor to diagnose your condition and advise on the most appropriate treatment. You should not self-medicate with ambien just because you have a sleep disorder.

I wasn’t very happy when my sons spilled their tomato sauce and ice cream inside my new car. They didn’t spill anything on the seats, fortunately, but cleaning up the floor was still a pain. That’s the reason why I decided to get something to protect the interior of my new ride. So I went to the website I’ve trusted for so long when it comes to car accessory, CariD.com.

I’d never bothered with car mats before so I’d never been to this part of the site. But as usual, CariD never fails to amaze me with their large selection of high quality products. I found it difficult to make up my mind because there were just so many different types of car mats available. Some were meant to give maximum protection, while others were meant to be comfortable and give a luxurious feel to the car. In the end, I chose the WeatherTech mats but I have to admit, I was almost tempted to go with the embroidered mats instead.

Now I can drive my kids around without having to worry about dirty floors. These wonderful car mats are just what I need and they’are probably something that you should get too.

Someone somewhere once said, “We are what we eat.” This is a cheerful way of summing up our lives. In physical terms, we become a representation of our attitude to food and why we eat. Assuming a choice rather than circumstances forced on people through poverty or famine, an increasingly small percentage of the world’s population prefers to eat smaller portions of healthy food. The rest are hooked on food, eating vast quantities of often unhealthy food. The result is a world-wide epidemic of obesity. In terms of Body Mass Index (BMI) that’s a massive number of people with a BMI of 30 or more. We are merely overweight when we tip the scales at a BMI of 25. This is not only distressing because those with the buying power consume more than their fair share of the word’s food output, it’s also storing up a major public health problem for future generations to deal with. Everyone who is overweight has an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease. These are diseases requiring long-term and expensive care. With a healthcare service already struggling to cope with the present levels of illness, adding more people will overload it and cause it to break down unless major new funds are pumped in.

One of the most common first steps from obesity into disease comes in the form of late-onset diabetes. One of the early symptoms is erectile dysfunction. If the diabetes is not controlled, there’s increasingly severe damage to the nerve endings and impotence results. The research community is therefore beginning to look more closely at the role of diet in the treatment of diabetes. As it stands, many people simply look at the meal they propose to eat and adjust the dosage of insulin to counteract the likely effects on the body. This does little to reduce the weight problem and nothing to help the erectile dysfunction. This month sees the publication of a research study in Italy looking at the effect of adopting a Mediterranean diet. This should be the norm in Italy, but many people have abandoned the healthy approach to eating in favor of junk food. The results are interesting. Some 600 men diagnosed with diabetes and suffering some degree of erectile dysfunction were placed on a Mediterranean diet. They completed regular questionnaires on general health and sexual performance. At the end of the study, the men who had kept most strictly to the diet had all reduced their BMI, had lost inches from their waists, had better glucose and lipid levels, and were more active. They were more prepared to exercise and their sexual performance was improved by 10%. Men who failed to stick to the diet, were more likely to report a worsening in their sexual performance.

An improvement by 10% may not sound impressive, but this is improvement without relying on cialis or any of the other erectile dysfunction drugs. To see the real significance, remember diabetes slowly damages the nerve endings. You would always expect sexual performance to worsen without treatment. That sexual performance improved simply by changing the diet is remarkable. Now imagine the results if men both adopted a strict Mediterranean diet and used cialis. This would give a real boost to sexual performance and improve the quality of life.

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