Sleep and Health Journal

By Nikos M. Linardakis, M.D., The Natural Sleep Doctor®

and Amanda Hanley

Are you tossing and turning in bed because of discomfort and pain? Pain can often bring on problems in sleep. Back pain, in particular, can lead to serious physical and emotional problems. However, sometimes problems in your sleep environment (a poor bed mattress for example) can also bring on pain. In this article, we will explore and suggest a few natural solutions for pain and sleep.

When you or your adolescent child could not fall asleep until 3 a.m. and could not wake up before noon it is not laziness, it’s a disorder, called Delayed Sleep-Phase Syndrome.

Some times not the big article in scientific journal but a small letter for a person crying for help touches our heart and laminates the significance of the issue that we think we know about but do not pay much of attention. Below is one of such letters that we publish as it was written.

By Louis Keith MD, PhD

Conventional wisdom suggests that mild disorders, be they physical or mental are bad and should be treated or eliminated. A recent publication in the journal Medical Hypotheses (http:// intel.elsevierhealth.com/journals/mehy) by Drs Alexander Golbin and Alexander Umantsev suggest that this is not necessarily so. Their contention, based on a wealth of clinical and psychological data, is that a mild disorder could actually help prevent and/or ameliorate a major disease. They even arrived at the revolutionary idea that healthy individuals can tolerate some degrees of mild disorder in order to maintain their health, using the advance theories of adaptive chaos and control system theory to prove their point.

By Dina Golbin

Our common sense tells us that in sleep our senses (hearing, smell, taste, vision, and touch) don’t function while we sleep. So, the connection between ear, nose, throat, and sleep seem, at first, very superficial. Recent research challenged this common sense and, on the contrary, amazing and important connections between face and sleep were discovered.

Ways To Sleep Better

Vikram Sobti B.S.

From a teenager who sleeps until noon to an adult who gets his requisite eight hours, sleep is a major part of healthy living. Unfortunately, many Americans toss and turn throughout the night, without ever really recharging their bodies. This article describes the easy ways to help your sleep, without the use of sleep aids, machines, or medical interventions. In a nutshell, sleep hygiene is the secret lurking up every sleep physician’s sleeve that is always used as an adjuvant therapy, never as the primary regime. But what the physicians don’t tell you is that in many cases, these tips may be the key to getting the sleep you’ve always wanted.

Sleep Apnea

By Alexander Golbin, MD, PhD

Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder occurring during sleep where an individual has recurrent episodes of stopping breathing (apnea) for short periods of time (10 to 30 seconds or more). These apneic episodes may occur as often as 20 to 100 times per hour in individuals with severe sleep apnea. These typically occur as one’s muscles relax while asleep and their tongue falls to the back of the throat or one’s throat tissue collapses while breathing in (obstructive sleep apnea). Apneas may also occur as a result of a disturbance in the brain’s breathing center (central sleep apnea). Sleep apnea is believed to affect at least 1 to 2% of the adult population, particularly males 30 to 60 years of age, but realize it is also seen in children and women.

Dr. Leonid Kayumov, Ph.D.,
Chief Editor of Canadian Edition
Part Two
of Two

Imaging technology is particularly useful for the investigation
of nocturnal seizure disorder (e.g. frontal lobe epilepsy), the
etiology of which remains unknown in the majority of cases.