Track 1
Introductions
John Neustadt had insomnia
- 80 million in the US have sleep disorders
- Can have big affect on your day in work/relationships
- If chronic, can be deadly (diabetes)
- Medical students staying awake for long shifts/ 72 hours
Many medical mistakes are made
Common sleep disorders: Sleep Apnea
Start Track 2: 17:36
Track 2
Categorize Sleep Disorders:
Hard To Fall Asleep: Insomnia
Hard To Stay Asleep: Insomnia, Bruxism
Too Much Sleep: Narcolepsa, Hypersomnia
Jet Leg: Fit bit did a study on 6 billion pieces of information
- Biggest problem: "Social Jet Leg"
- How to improve: go to bed at the same time every night
Hyperarousal Hypothesis: too much cortisol/adrenaline
Call about EMF waves and the upcoming 5G
- Gadgets become ADDICTIVE/Impulsive
- We are energetic beings
- Sleep has decreased 20% in the last century because of electricity
Large number of people seeing doctors are actually suffering from sleep disorders
Start Track 3: 38:33
Track 3
Sleep Architecture:
- John tries to understand disorders by doing continuous research and then explain to patients
Different "stages" of the Sleep Architecture
- Stage 1: easily disrupted by noises/lights/etc.
- light stages of sleep - you want that to be short.
- Younger people: typical female in their 30's don't allow themselves to relax.
- Sleep disruption is very common - they stay in stage 1
- what could help: white noise machines
- Stage 2: Deeper sleep but still not in restorative sleep (10-25 minutes 45-55% of total sleep time)
- Stage 3: Restorative - slow waves - refreshing (3-8%)
- Stage 4: Highest arousal sleep - cannot wake them up.
- REM-Sleep (75-80% of sleep is NOT in REM sleep)
- REM/Dreaming sleep happens about every 90 minutes
- People get scared about going to sleep
Research from sleep architecture
- What are the factors of not sleeping well
- What can we take
- Tight Muscles
- Regulating blood sugars
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
Start Track 4: 57:07
Track 4
Call about pelvic Prolapse
Hormones and Gender
- Women 40% more likely to have sleep disorders
- PMS
- Menopause/Hot Flashes
- Low Estrogen
- Low Progesterone
- Low Testosterone
Thyroid lab values are not optimal (bell-curve)
One thing to look for is looking for TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
Hormones - all start in the brain
If brain is being jostled around - damage - can affect the hormone production of all kinds
Start Track 5: 1:17:32
Track 5
Increasing testosterone affects stage 3 sleep
Decreasing weight increasing testosterone
HIS PRODUCT: made out of own desperation
melatonin goes away very quickly
- melatonin is a circadian modulator
- melatonin secreted in the brain
- melatonin secreted in the gut
Many products are not working with our physiological rhythms
- that's why he made his own product
Bi-Phasic time released
- Stage 1 - 30-40 minutes
- nutrients to help them calm down the neural system
- nutrients to help with muscle tightness
- Stage 2- adaptogenic herbs
- ashwaganda
- skullcap
- magnolia
- hops
Magnesium + B-6 - to help breakdown of L-Tryptophon (essential amino acid we need from food)
Pine Bark can also help promote sleep - especially in women
Start Track 6: 1:38:12
Track 6
Prescription medication
- 2 days: Benzodiazepines Klonazepam
- Especially the elderly
- an increase in dizziness
- an increase in falling down
- Medical Journal: success is marginal at best
- risk of death increases
- risk of cancer increases
- 1/2 million deaths in US
- Diet. Lifestyle. Dietary Supplements
New class of drugs: Belsamera
- increases falling asleep by 8-10 minutes
- increases staying asleep by +/- 20 minutes
We need to treat the person
CONCLUSION about OTC- medication for sleep- not effective may be masking real causes
Protein before bedtime - 10 grams - 15 grams/before bedtime helps blood sugar regulations
How about people with acid reflux at night and having to sit-up
- sometimes dry hacking cough
5 most common foods that cause acid reflux
- Raw Onion
- Garlic
- Tomatoes
- Coffee
- Citrus
