Since few recognize the critical value of sleep, a safe cure was buried, the pills that replaced it make sleep worse, and Congress is on the precipice of locking in dark mornings nationwide.
Story at a Glance:
•Proper sleep is one of the most important things for our health, and when it is disrupted, many severe issues consistently emerge (e.g., heart attacks, psychiatric illnesses, car accidents, fatigue, diabetes, cognitive impairment, or dementia).
•Due to the importance of sleep and healthy sleep cycles not being understood, many counterproductive policies exist (e.g., sleep is essential for learning, yet educational programs like medical training sleep-deprive students, and schools wake adolescents up too early).
•One of these, daylight saving time, has been particularly problematic, so decades of attempts have been made to fix it. A law is currently advancing through Congress to do so, but it is mislabeled and will actually make things much worse—unless the public is awakened to what is actually in the bill.
•A similar issue exists with sleeping pills, which are labeled to “fix sleep” but in reality function as sleep-blocking sedatives that create a host of issues, making them among the most dangerous drugs on the market. Many people hence do not know that in 1964, a sleeping medication hit the market that was remarkably effective for a variety of conditions (including insomnia) and hence, unlike sleeping pills, profoundly improved the health of its recipients.
•Because it threatened so many different drug markets, once it reached America in 1990, the FDA, in collusion with the media, launched a ten-year takedown of it, which in many regards was almost identical to what they did to ivermectin. It was successful, and very few people are even aware that this drug exists or that many of the sleeping disorders we face are easily treatable.
•In this article, we will review the data that illustrates the harms of poor sleep, the common causes of poor sleep, and the most effective treatments we have found for sleeping disorders that are still available to the public.....
•You need to have a set time to wake up and sleep each day. The body adapts to a rhythm, and if you keep changing that time, the body has much greater difficulty falling asleep.
Note: many people find cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to be extremely helpful for insomnia and there is now significant evidence to support it being a first line therapy.
