According to recent statistics, sleep deprivation affects more than 70 million North Americans. We are spending $2.4 billion a year just trying to fall asleep.
In her book, The Hormone Diet, Dr. Natasha Turner offers the following tips:
- Go to bed by 11 p.m. Our stress glands, the adrenals, recharge or recover most between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. And, if we could go to bed before 10 p.m. we would establish optimal conditions for building our adrenal reserves.
- Sleep 7 to 9 hours a night. The American Cancer Association has found higher incidences of cancer in individuals who consistently sleep fewer than 6 hours or more than 9 hours nightly. It is interesting to note that oversleeping is just as harmful a sleep deprivation.
- Keep household lighting dim from dinnertime until you go to sleep. This helps prepare your body and hormones for sleeps and aids digestion.
- Sleep in loose-fitting night clothes. Tight clothing will increase body temperature and interfere with melatonin release.
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