Dr Sanjay Gupta...A surefire way to improve your health in 2018..

[Steve112]

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[jeanjeannie50]

Sanjay Gupta talks so much sense and I can clearly understand all advice given. Thank you for posting Steve.

[doodle68]

Thanks for posting Steve SG makes a lot of sense .

[JohnHassall]

Regardless of what I do or what I try a solid good nights sleep never happens.

I'm lucky if I get 4 hours of broken sleep.

We all know the facts but repeatedly being told about how important sleep is doesn't help.

[Doddsey-UK]

I love this reply. I am 62 I struggle to get through a whole night let alone 8 hours and so do other members of my family and friends. I find that come 3pm, it is as if someone has thrown a blanket over me and I desperately want to sleep but as I look after my 15 month old granddaughter full time, that is not an option. At 730 pm when I sit down finally to relax I finally fall asleep always watching the beginning of a programme but never the end. I would then be woken up and told to go to bed. But of course, that’s been my power nap so although I can get to sleep immediately, I then wake at 2:05am. Sometimes I cave in and get up as I would rather be active rather than thrashing around in bed getting frustrated and bored. I am sometimes fortunate and can fall back to sleep after an hour or so and a warm drink but more often that’s it for the night. Trying to achieve 8 hours in the trot is unachievable. However, it’s not been for the want of trying.

[Ianc2 in reply to Doddsey-UK]

My I suggest you are busy looking after everyone else and you are not giving yourself time to look after yourself. I find I sleep best when I am physically tired following a good long walk. I have a fitbit and when I started using it I was shocked at how inactive I had become - very busy - but not active. Now I try to have a long walk 4-6 miles 3 times a week, and a short walk up to 2 miles on other days. No 'power naps' allowed.

[Doddsey-UK in reply to Ianc2]

Thank you for your reply. I welcome recommendations and frequently look for ways to improve my overall health including sleep. Not wishing to knock GP’s, I do think they need to take an individuals concerns more seriously. I suffers for years with what I know have a clear diagnosis of PAF which previously was simply dismissed as anxiety attacks until one day almost suffering a catastrophic health event. I have found that acknowledging disturbed sleep, sleep apnea and insomnia is often viewed the same as suffering from PAF, in other words, it is dismissed as anxiety. I’m not knocking the medical profession in any way as now I have found an incredibly supportive GP, but maybe as much awareness of sleep deprivation should be pushed in the same way taking too many antibiotics has been particularly as you so rightly say, it can adversely affect so many other health concerns such as obesity, diabetiea etc. I welcome the future health recommendations to shared and look forward to reading how these will have supported others in this forum. It will make for fascinating reading. 🤤

[doodle68]

I have trouble sleeping too but don't mind Dr Gupta reminding me sleep is important and he said in the video he will post more information on ways to help.

Sometimes my mind won't turn off. I have had a lifetime of jobs that required me to work through the night, now I am retired my sleep is disturbed by the need to 'spend a penny ' every 2 hours. I don't want diuretics or the medication they give to children to stop them wetting the bed, I have enough medication already , I cope.

I do all the things of a comfy bed/cotton sheets/lavender pillow/ well aired bedroom /not drinking coffee in the evening/ but it doesn't help most of the time.

I know now the best thing is not to lay there so I get up and do something which is not mentally stimulating for half an hour like ironing or starting off a batch of bread before trying again to sleep.

Like Doddsey I can sleep most easily when it is time to get up .

However I am grateful Dr Gupta is giving some thought to the importance of sleep and his time to making videos particularly useful for those who aren't aware and I look forward to future videos which may contain some information to help the sleepless.

[Polski]

When I started taking magnesium, it definitely improved my sleep. I now sleep for longer without waking up, and sometimes I sleep through the night.

[Ianc2]

In the summer time the Spanish have a 2 shift sleeping pattern where they get in anything up to up 8 hours sleep - just not all in one session. Various patterns can be observed but they usually sleep around 2am - 6am and 2pm to 5/ 6pm, with local variations. Interestingly in the summer when the daytime temperatures get into the high 30's they don't go out for their evening meal until about 10 pm