DARKNESS AND SLEEP Pros and cons of sleeping tablets

Melatonine is the hormone that induces sleep. In order to sleep well, one should be in a completely dark room and only go to bed once ready to fall asleep. Watching TV in your bed room and using your cell phone a few minutes or hours before sleeping is scientifically proven to be wrong as it disrupt your body sleep patterns.

Mobile phones phones emit blue light. Light from our daily electronic gadgets including smartphones can reduce melatonine production by about 10 percent. Specifically on the Samsung Galaxy A11 mobile device, next to the mobile hot spot option, you will find a section written Blue light filter. On other phone brands its eye comfort.

Why is this? It is because the mobile devices appear to have white light as well as other lights that might not be visible to the naked eye. However, such light is radiated towards the body and inteferes with sleep hormones.

Due to easy access of mobile smart phones, reserach indicates that 600 million people wordlwide suffer from poor sleep and admit to be using sleeping medication. About 131 million packets of sleeping pills are sold each year globally.

Trouble falling asleep, jolting awake in the middle of the night, stress and anxiety are some of the effects of insomia. Insomnia is defined by strict criteria, trouble sleeping at least three times a week over a period of atleast three months with consequences severe enough to have an impact the following a day. It is very important to go to bed when you are tired because your sleep will not be easily disrupted in those four stages of the sleep cycle.

A sleeping pill is a drug that is meant to induce sleep. However, it may not provide complete sleep, as the patient might be half awake.

The most common sleeping aides are Benzodiazepines from the family of drugs used as minor tranquilizers. They include sedatives like hypnot. They numb the entire brain, inhibit memory and are extremely addictive.

Theoretical sleeping pills should be only be prescribed for four weeks, while sedatives for 12 weeks maximum, yet the reality is different. These have long term, chronic toxicity. They are not toxic right away, only when they are used over a long period of time.