“So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.” DifferentBodySleepStageDeeperYour BodyRestoring Author:Shelby Harris
“So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.” DreamBodySleepEmotionBrainStageQuietActiveProcessing Author:Shelby Harris
“When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.” MindSaidHelpingBodyMemoriesSleepBrainHappenedStageQuietDeeperActiveYour BodyCellsDamageRestoringDigestionRepairing Author:Shelby Harris
“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.” PeopleIfsWellsEnoughBodyMightLinesSleepLosingResearchGainsWeightDifficultyEnough Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“So, it's not every patient that I see, but I'd say a good 70% to 80% of the patients when they go to bed it's like a stereo is playing at an 11 or 12 and they can't turn it down, at all. So it makes it very hard for their body to down regulate to be able to go to bed at night.” HardBodyAbleNightTurnsBedPatient Author:Shelby Harris
“When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't sleep even more because you're making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.” ThinkingMindBodyHappensNightTurnsSleepActiveYour BodyAwakeFrustratedTenseTossAwake At Night Author:Shelby Harris
“We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.” LittlesTwoBodyNightBitsNaturalSleepLittle BitThirdsFunctionPatientDiariesInsomniaCatchingTwo DaysCatching Up Author:Shelby Harris
“When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.” PeopleIfsWayBodySleepWorryTomorrowThirdsTonightInsomniaCatchingMantrasCatching UpNot Sleeping Author:Shelby Harris
“We'll work on relaxation strategies and also changing the times you go to bed will actually make them sleep a little bit less for a few nights so their body's natural sleep drive starts to kick in. That is very effective in about 60% to 70% of patients who do it, four to eight sessions, not even every week; it works for 60% to 70% of patients.” LittlesBodyNightBitsNaturalSleepFourWeekBedLittle BitStrategyPatientEightKicksRelaxationSession Author:Shelby Harris
“So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.” PeopleIfsThinkingBodyRhythmClockFarmsElectricityCircadian Rhythm Author:Shelby Harris
“People went to bed when the sun went down and they woke up when the sun came up. That's what our bodies are naturally programmed to do. However, with all the new stresses in life with electricity, with technology, we tend to override that system and we'll stay up later and we'll get up earlier or later, and we use alarm clocks, we use the light.” PeopleUseBodyLightTechnologySunBedStressDown AndGet UpClockElectricityAlarmsAlarm Clocks Author:Shelby Harris
“So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So there are some people who have a lot of trouble adjusting their rhythms and they have trouble working the night shift, they're sleepy, they're drowsy driving home.” PeopleWantHomeBodyNightSleepTroubleDrivingRhythmAwakeSleepyAdjustingDrowsyNight ShiftRotatingDriving Home Author:Shelby Harris
“Honestly, what we use a lot is melatonin. So we use lower dosages of melatonin, taking it at different times, depending upon where we are traveling and that can really help adjust the body's rhythm to wherever you are going.” DifferentHelpingUseBodyHonestlyRhythmDifferent TimesWherever You AreDosageMelatonin Author:Shelby Harris
