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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Are you getting enough sleep?

The Reader's Digest and Dr Mercola's website are just two of the health information sources you can use to get tips on improving your night's sleep. Did you know that regularly experiencing poor quality of sleep affects your blood sugar, upsets your hormonal systems and can contribute to weight gain, diabetes and depression. Imbalance in your hormonal systems brought on by sleep deprivation can affect simple things like memory and concentration and long term can damage your immune system, heart and metabolism.

Is there a secret to a good night's sleep? Of course! There are a lot of things you can do quite simply with small lifestyle adjustments, most of which are free. Both of the sites mentioned above provide tips on improving your sleep such as reducing the amount of TV watched before bedtime, moving alarm clocks away from the bed and darkening the room adequately.

If you need some stronger therapies to help with sleep, I can recommend a couple of products which will send you into those alpha waves more quickly without the use of drugs. One is Mexican Wild Yam. The other is a room freshener spray which carries certain essential oils to promote sleep. Both are lovely, natural ways to relax and harmonize your body's systems. The hormonal system is especially important as a good progesterone is essential for producing seratonin. Most people suffer estrogen dominance which affects their progesterone levels and inhibits their seratonin production. If you would like to explore these therapies then please contact me. I would love to help. These therapies are also safe for children and babies. Do you remember how it feels to wake totally refreshed and invigorated after a beautiful rest? I am also a strong advocate of Dr Mercola's EFT Technique. This is an exceptionally good way to apply a natural therapy to relax, realign the body and stop the chatter in your head.

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