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Considering that we spend 33% of our lives sleeping, one would think that we would know more about it than we do. What we do know is that babies need 16 hours of sleep a day, teens function best with about 10-11 hours, college students require about eight hours, and people between 45-60 years of age have stated that seven is sufficient. Yes, sleep is important, but the type of sleep we are getting is also crucial. For example, memory, learning capabilities, and the ability to adapt emotionally are all associated with REM sleep, whereas your body’s capacity to rebuild and repair itself is largely dependent upon stage four sleep.
There is a mounting body of scientific evidence that indicates that there are serious consequences for sleep deprivation. Losing just a few hours each night may make you gain weight, prone to diabetes, mess up your immune system and raise your blood pressure to name just a few health problems. In the course of a good night’s sleep, your body produces several very important substances that are essential to your well-being, vitality, and length and quality of life.
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Two of the more crucial substances manufactured during sleep are human growth hormone (HGH) and melatonin. Both of these play an important role in your health and well-being. HGH is manufactured by the pituitary gland, located just under the brain. It is frequently referred to as the body’s master hormone, activating growth in the young and sexual maturity in the adolescent. Melatonin is a hormone manufactured in the pineal gland from the amino acid tryptophan, and has noteworthy influence on our hormonal, immune, and nervous systems. During the day, as we consume tryptophan in our food, our body converts it into serotonin, a critical brain chemical implicated with mood. Serotonin, in turn, is changed into melatonin. Guess when it occurs most efficiently?—at night!!
Sleeping pills and other prescription drugs are not the answer as they cannot make up for the critical physiological changes our body goes through in the Land of Nod. What research is showing us is that when the human body becomes sleep deprived it will begin behaving in abnormal ways. According to sleep specialists, sleep is a necessity of your body rather than a luxury.
Here is the good news. On October 1, 2005, a clinical study of a new sleep music solution for insomnia titled zMusic was performed at The California Center for Sleep Disorders. The California Center for Sleep Disorders is one of the most credible sleep clinics in the country and the study’s protocol was examined and approved by an Internal Review Board. The study focused on four primary downsides of sleep-loss and the effect that listening to zMusic would have on them. The study concluded the following:
- The time to get to sleep was reduced by more than 60%.
- The amount of sleep was increased by 30%.
- Daytime alertness was improved by more than 55%.
- Those who utilized pharmaceuticals in order to sleep were able to reduce that use by 75%.
- No hypnotic or subliminal messages.
- Works in harmony with the natural brain waves of sleep with no side-effects.
- It safely and quickly shifts the listener’s brain waves from those associated with stress and tension to meditative
- brain waves or Stage One Sleep (alpha brain wave pattern).
- Awarded “The National Health & Wellness Club’s Seal of Approval” for effectiveness and value.
The gold standard of auditory sleep therapy. It is a composition as remarkably effective as it is beautifully entertaining. Now you have a drug-free answer to release stress, quiet your busy mind, and create the perfect nighttime ritual for blissful sleep. It will take you into the brain wave patterns of sleep, using state-of-the-art audio technology.
Remember when you were a child, and your Mother or Father would read you a story before you went to bed. I don’t know about you, but I was asleep before half the story was read. We know this won’t replace your Mom or Dad, but we have a talented narrator by the name of CJ Bradbury, who is a somatic stress-release specialist with a voice like melted butter. In the zStory, she weaves the perfect bedtime (or naptime) visualization to take you far away from the stress, worries and hectic lifestyle, so you can relax and sleep.
For those of you that are more visual than auditory, we also have zMovie, which is a blockbuster journey into deep relaxation and sleep. My family personally tried the zMovie, and found ourselves refreshed, re-energized and ready to take on the world the next morning. This production was written and directed by Robert de Stefano, an award-winning commercial director and writer who turned natural sleep therapist. The movie weaves breathtaking visuals with the clinically proven zMusic soundtrack to turn your television into the ultimate stress release and sleep machine. As time slows, colors shift and images become abstract, your breathing slows, your muscles relax and restless thoughts dissolve as you drift away into deep, restorative sleep.
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![zStory Audio CD [30 min]](images/fp/sleep/story_small.jpg "zStory Audio CD [30 min]")
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![zMovie DVD [30 min]](images/fp/sleep/movie_small.jpg "zMovie DVD [30 min]")
