Sleep, is it really that important?

Sleep is not an option?

What we do here at AAI Rejuvenation Clinic is gratifying to work for those of us who have the unique opportunity to call this our place of employment. Every day, we hear patient stories of reward and conquer as they reach their health and fitness goals and the array of peripheral, quality-of-life enhancing benefits that always accompany feeling great.

• Yes, our therapies are great and work!
• Yes, they are individualized to focus on specific patient issues.
• Yes, “yes” to all the other wonderful things you’d expect us to say to entice you to try and experience the superiority of our service.

However, let’s get beyond those formalities to get to some core truths. Free facts that are more important and more self-rewarding than any therapy or program any clinic can devise and structure for you. 

Sleep Studies

Various medical studies have pointed out that sleep, or lack thereof, directly correlates to our energy levels, cognitive functions, and even organ and cellular health. Most commonly, adults are expected to sleep around 9 hours daily to get the adequate amount necessary for optimal systemic function.

Unfortunately, most people get far less sleep than is necessary and recommended. Moreover, the number of people getting poor-quality sleep is slowly but surely increasing, leaving us to walk around in a world full of sleep-deprived, moody zombies.

Let’s talk scary numbers:

• 60% of adults are not getting enough sleep.
• – The average American is in bed 7.5 hours but only asleep about 6.1.

Recommended sleep requirements:

• – Infants = 15 – 14 hours – Toddlers   = 14 – 12 hours – Children   = 11 – 10 hours – Adults       =   9 – 7 hours
• Sleep just 6 hours a night and increase the chances of being overweight by 27% (about 14lbs a year).
• Sleep 6 hours a day and increase the possibility of heart disease by 48%.
• Sleep only 5 hours and increase this risk to 73%.
• Sleeping less than 5 hours a day reduces your hormonal production by 27% and interferes with other endocrine functions so complex, you cannot measure them by a simple % indication.
• Sleep only 4 ours a night and you will increase daily calorie intake by 22%.
• Reducing your average night sleep by 1.5 hours impairs alertness by 32%.
• If you only sleep 6 hours a night for 2 weeks straight your cognitive equivalence to blood alcohol level will be .10%.
• Driving while sleepy can be equally, if not more dangerous than driving while drunk.
• Driving while sleepy accounts for 20% of all annual car accidents.
• There is a gene that allows people to function well only 6 hours of sleep but, it only exists in 3% of the population.

Positive sleeping points:

Sleeping more is not an option? 

• Take a nap: a 20-minute nap increases cognitive function by 40%, enhancing concentration, alertness, and motor skills.
• A 45-minute nap with REM sleep enhances creative thinking and boosts sensory processing.
• Naps over 45 or 90 minutes will leave you dizzy and disoriented.
• Complete darkness stimulates melatonin – the sleep hormone.

AAI Clinics can help you with sleeping issues.

If you are not acquiring the adequate amount of rest necessary to promote your best potential and healthiest self, contact us for assistance. Although well-balanced hormone levels significantly aid and promote restful quality of sleep, there are other nutraceuticals that we can provide needing patients with to encourage real deep, quality rest that isn’t induced by synthetic drug absorption. 

Depending on your particular issues and life circumstances, you will want to click on the below medications to read the herbal facts and medicinal details of each of the below body-and-mind calming options to see which one of these, or a combination of these, will best aid you in your quest for real quality rest.

• L-Tryptophan
• Serenity Plus
• Relora ®-Plex
• Seditol ® Plus
• Brain CALM
• Valerian Root Max-V
• Valsed
• Melatonin (3 mg)
• Controlled-Release Melatonin

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