Sleepless nights are now common in over 60% of our population. Whether you have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up with energy, welcome to a growing club in which no-one wants membership.
One of the leading reasons for fatigue, poor learning, negative and hostile attitudes, weight gain, lack of focus, stress, diabetes, heart disease, failing memory and Alzheimer’s disease is poor sleep patterns. Specifically not enough REM sleep in which endorphins restore the body and neurotransmitters (brain hormones) put things into mental and psychological order. An analogy is that schoolagers pick up information in school classes but really reinforce and learn that information by doing homework and reviewing. Similarly, we get exposed to lots of information during our waking hours, but our homework occurs in the REM portion of our sleep cycles, organizing, and making sense of the input.