Abstract
Are Your Medications Keeping You Awake?
Highlights
When we lecture on sleep, we ask the audience to show by hands how many hours they sleep per night
The first half of the night is dominated by NREM sleep, which includes the semi-deep and deep sleep
Both are responsible for moving the short-term memory to more long-term storage in the brain, muscle relaxation, cell detoxification, and the production of essential good hormones like growth hormone and the Leptin hormone, which is responsible for satiety
Summary
When we lecture on sleep, we ask the audience to show by hands how many hours they sleep per night. Most folks are walking around with sleep deficits and turn to caffeine, power drinks, or medications to give them that push to finish the day. Compounding this problem are the many prescription medications used for common ailments that have profound effects on sleep architecture. Often the very things folks are taking to get them through the day can be the very things keeping them awake at night.
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