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25.01.2022 Three minutes without air can be fatal. Three days without water can be fatal. 21 days without food can also be fatal. 11 days without sleep is fatal. Yet, so many of us flaunt sleep almost every day. Stay with me if you consider your brain as an important organ. As such, it has to be flushed of toxins just like every other vital part of our body. Your brain has a very efficient system for disposing of the daily build-up of toxins and it works every time - given the right con...ditions! Your lymphatic system uses blood flow to remove waste products from the entire body, except your brain. Sleep - quality sleep is vital for the brain to clean out the junk. As you sleep parts of your brain will shut down, shrink and allow cerebrospinal fluid in to clean your brain of toxins every 90 minutes or so. Here’s the kicker. If you don’t give your brain enough quality sleep time every night, toxins build up and both the short term and long term issues can be pretty harsh. Lack of sleep is linked to many issues, including chronic fatigue, confusion, poor decision-making, irritability, headaches, weight gain, depression and heart disease. Sleep deprivation has also been linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other long-term degenerative brain diseases. Doctors now understand that getting by with five six hours of sleep each night is shortchanging your quality of life and subsequently, the number of years attached to it. Our brain is also the single-best producer of mind-altering drugs. Sleep deprivation compounds toxin levels every night, so give your brain a break for seven or eight or suffer the mind-altering consequences. In other words, if you don’t eliminate the resulting toxins, you remain drugged. It’s a pretty easy mantra - good sleep for a better life. For a personal sleep consultation or to understand how to achieve comfortable sleep, email me on [email protected]
14.01.2022 GOOD SLEEP IS CRITICAL FOR A HEALTHY WORKOUT RECOVERY. One training regimen many athletes commonly neglect is sleep and recovery. Dodging on either can single-handedly put a stop to your gains, elevate your injury risk in the gym and road block processes in your body that regulate pretty much everything. Three things to get right every night.... 1. Sleep does many things for us physically and emotionally. Importantly, proper sleep recharges your nervous system and replenishes your energy stores. Naturally the deeper and better you sleep, the better you recover. Your Central Nervous System (CNS )is responsible for triggering muscle contractions, reaction time, and response to pain and you can start overloading your body on a larger scale. Without good sleep, you’re going to become slower, weaker, maybe even less coordinated in your workouts. Without good sleep, you’re going to become slower, weaker, maybe even less coordinated in your workouts. What's more, your endocrine system and hormone profile are working while you’re sleeping. These are really important because they secrete hormones, like cortisol and testosterone that produce muscle growth. In a stressed-out state, people have high cortisol levels, which can hurt performance and goals over a long period of time. If you’re getting low-quality sleep, or not enough sleep, that’s going to impact your body’s ability to heal itself. 2. The quality of your sleep tonight will affect the intensity of your workout tomorrow. If you have a bad reload during sleep, the workout you do the next day might seem harder than it normally would. When you’re asleep, your body uses most of its energy to restore your damaged tissues. So if you’re getting low-quality sleep, or not enough sleep, that’s going to impact your body’s ability to heal itself. 3. The quality of your sleep matters most. You can sleep for eight hours; but if the quality isn’t good, you won’t recover as well as if you had six hours of high-quality sleep. You also need an environment which promotes optimal and healthy sleep. That should include a cool, quiet, dark bedroom, the right mattress and base and manchester that breathes naturally. Bottom line: Without proper restoration, you start degrading muscle growth and recovery and your CNS stops recharging. Now you feel tired, unmotivated and weak in your workouts, causing a negative feedback loop that could start a vicious cycle.
13.01.2022 I'M NOT SLEEPING WITH YOUR EX! I had a client in my shop recently who insisted that her new partner buy a new mattress for their bed - or he sleeps alone! Why? Because she had a good inkling on what is probably lurking in his 3 year old mattress. The illustration below gives you a good grip on where she was coming from. What it doesn't cover is what was really creeping her out: bodily fluids!... You think you sleep hygienically? Take a look at this. Your mattress may be affecting your good health in many ways. In my consultations over the last 5 years, so many people have told me that they have no issues with keeping their mattress clean. "Putting it in the sun every now and then", "vacuuming", "steam cleaning" are common responses. One client said she replaces hers every six months for hygiene reasons. Sorry but vacuuming won't cut it, steam cleaning creates moisture in the middle of the mattress which could grow various saprotrophic fungi. How much better would it be if you had a mattress which contains medical grade silver, is anti-bacterial, antimicrobial, antistatic and fully washable? Never seen one? We have a showroom full of them. Wenatex -The Sleep System. 36 Doggett St., Newstead. Open Weekdays 9-5, Weekends 9-2. You no longer need to sleep with your partner's ex every night!
06.01.2022 Which Toxic Chemicals Do You Sleep With Every Night? More and more people are visiting our showroom on a quest to choose a mattress and bedding that contain all natural elements and zero toxins. More and more of us are becoming chemically sensitive. Even supposedly low toxic substances can sometimes have an effect on the average person. If you were to investigate exactly which chemicals are used in the manufacture of a typical mattress, your frustration of getting easy acce...Continue reading
04.01.2022 Snooze Blues News We are discovering more about good healthy sleep every day. Is it fair to suggest that anything less than a routine 7-9 hours of quality sleep each and every night will have negative impacts on human health? An recent news comment triggered a curious chain of thought. The text said that generally, World Leaders only achieve around four hours of sleep out of any day. My mind’s memory then flashed a series of images which recalls an observation that has baffl...ed me for some time. Why do our leaders appear to age quickly (beyond their actual years) during their time in office? Is it the onerous task of their office and the associated responsibilities? Or is it a high level of stress compounded by a lack of healthy sleep, or something else altogether? Sleep was once thought of a passive state that assisted in recuperation from the day’s activity. Such thinking has been replaced with a library of evidence that our bodies require proper sleep to restore physical health and optimal mental function. In a broad sense, the eight hours of proper snooze can be broken into two halves. The first four hours are primarily dedicated to the anatomical cellular (physical) repair and it’s during the following four hours that our brain cleans itself and rejuvenates. So should you reduce the number of hours sleep each night, it’s your brain that could suffer the most. Famous proponents of short sleep, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were both diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The glymphatic system’s cerebrospinal fluid is responsible for flushing out the brain’s toxic waste products that cells produce with daily use. A recent study by author and University of Rochester neurosurgeon Maiken Nedergaard said, Sleep puts the brain in another state where we clean out all the byproducts of activity during the daytime. Those byproducts include beta-amyloid protein, clumps of which form plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Yes you can survive on limited sleep every night. The question has to be asked, Are those limited sleep nights having a longer term affect on your health? New research simply reinforces how vitally important it is to get the right quality and quantity of sleep each night. It encourages good heart health, better eating and exercise habits and better mental health, boosts our memory and confidence, restores our creativity and vitality, makes us more physically attractive and allows us to function better during the day. It also makes us safer drivers, more productive in our respective jobs, more emotionally level and calmer people. Image:The difference of cerebrospinal fluid influx is seen in the brain of an awake and a sleeping mouse. Fluorescent dye has been injected into the animal to enable viewing of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in a mouse that is still alive. The red represents the greater flow in a sleeping animal, while the green represents conversely restricted flow in the same awake animal. (Lulu Xie)
