Dr. McKenzie Sleeping Ways to Wellness

In today’s nonstop world, late nights and early mornings have become the norm. We all want to get more done each day, do better at work, spend more time with our families, and make more money. But all that hard work can wreak havoc on our bodies.

You know that 8 hours of sleep is ideal.

The benefits of adequate rest have been proven time and again:

● Improves memory
● Boosts creativity
● Strengthens immune system
● Reduces stress
● Helps weight loss
● Helps the body heal itself
● Sharpens attention
● Supports brain function
● Extends lifespan

Learn more about sleep Wellness

1. Sleep Wellness By. Dr. Sheila McKenzie, PhD, IMD, DHS, OM

2. Relationship of sleepless and Cortisol.

3. Cortisol Levels

4. Results of High Cortisol Levels

5. What is inflammation? Inflammation is a natural, protective biological response from the immune system to fight off harmful foreign pathogens—bacteria, viruses, toxins— that cause illness and disease, and to help the body heal from injury.

6. What Should Happen When You Go To Sleep?

7. Does Sleep Aids Work?

8. Brain Body Toxic Burden may affect Sleep Health challenges are to be viewed by most people as a "disease' that requires aggressive suppressive treatments.  The concept of traditional natural Medicine is that ill-health is the ineffective elimination of cellular toxins and compromised immune systems. As toxins accumulate, they block the cellular ability to receive oxygen, nourishment, energy and eliminate waste.

9. Sleeping Your Way to Wellness Book. Our natural biological sleep cycle is 7 to 8 hours . During this we go through a complete cleanse and  while we're sleeping the body flushes out toxins  and the mind moves short term memories and clears out unwanted memories. Nutrition and detoxification suggestion in “ Sleeping Your Way to Wellness”

10. Body toxic Burden A chronic inflammatory state in the system as toxins get embedded more profound in the cells and create symptoms of chronic systemic inflammation. Manifestation of ill health is the collection of numerous toxins in a person's body. Toxic burdens are unique to each person. Medical and dental researchers have linked drugs, unhealthy lifestyle, poor diets, oral toxins such as decayed teeth, gums crevices, sinus and tonsils infections, mucus membrane ulcers as contributing factors to many systemic inflammations processes that may contribute to sleep disorders. 

11. inflammatory response it essential to our health and survival.

12. Chronic Inflammation Links Chronic inflammation is also linked to the development of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer—the major chronic and life-threatening diseases of our time. With chronic inflammation, the body’s immune system is in perpetual fight mode, activating disease-fighting cells that have no external threat to fend off. Over time, these fighter cells can attack, wear down, and cause damage to healthy cells, tissues, organs, and systems throughout the body, leading to chronic illness.

13. Not feeling your best The  inflammation  slows down communication between neurons. This is what causes you to feel foggy, dull, and slow.  Brain inflammation  is serious because it means nerve cells in the  brain  are dying. In other words,  brain inflammation  is causing your  brain  to atrophy.y and age too fast

14. Research and Inflammation Research has found evidence that  inflammation  is responsible for  sleep  regulation, and those with greater  inflammation  have disturbed  sleep . This is also the reason why  sleep  is difficult during illness and infection. Those with  sleep  disorders have been found to have a higher level of  inflammation .

15. Triggers What triggers excessive, unhealthful, chronic inflammation? Poor diet, environmental toxins, stress. And, as research shows,  poor  sleep is a contributor to inflammation .  

16. Too little sleep triggers inflammation. So does too much sleep. Scientists still have a lot to learn about the specifics of the relationship between sleep and inflammation. But there’s already a strong body of research showing that  lack of sleep raises levels of inflammation  in the body. Laboratory studies have tested acute, prolonged sleep deprivation—conditions under which sleep is restricted for 24 hours or more—and found this severe degree of sleep loss increases inflammation activity in the body.

17. To heal your  cells, muscles, joints  and  spines , you must employ dynamic crystal healing rituals such as sleeping on SleepM crystal bed and pillow Amplifies pain relief and decrease inflammatory processes,

18. Correct Pillow The SleepM Bio-Crystal Energy Pillow corrects the old, traditional faults of those pillows that don’t properly support the head, and helps to maintain the health of the cervical spine.

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20. Sleep better! Live better!