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Natural Sleep Remedies

Having looked at the medical answer to combating your difficulty in sleeping, let's turn our attention towards non-medical, or natural, sleep aids.

There are numerous benefits to be gained from choosing natural sleep remedies, or a combination of natural remedies, including:

  • Fewer side effects. Except for the short-term use of sleeping pills to assist in overcoming a specific difficulty in sleeping, virtually all of the medical alternatives carry side effects - many of which can be surprisingly debilitating. Natural remedies, on the other hand, show few, and often only mild, side effects.


  • Relief is longer-lasting. While medical alternatives can produce relief in the short-term, the problems that they bring in their wake in the long-term far exceed any benefit gained. Natural remedies provide a very much longer-term solution.


  • Natural remedies are far less expensive than their medical counterparts, not just in terms of the cost of the drugs themselves, but also in terms of the costs and losses associated with living with the side effects of medical aids.

I'll look at a number of natural alternatives including:

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I Can Make You Sleep: Overcome Insomnia Forever and Get the Best Rest of Your...
by Paul McKenna
Amazon Price: $15.61
Customer Review: I'd just like to add my personal testimony that, like most people who left comments here, the book was helpful enough but the CD was VERY helpful in putting me to sleep and helping the quality of my sleep. I have wicked bad insomnia (which is made worse by being bi-polar and having ADHD) and have tried pretty much every sleep pill you can name (Am...
 
No More Sleepless Nights
by Peter Hauri, Shirley Linde
Amazon Price: $11.53
Customer Review: I liked this book. It helped me sleep better. The logs were easy to do, made sense, condensed information for me to get a feel for what was going on sleeping and waking. I made them into an Excel spreadsheet.
His reassurances helped me to relax- I am in control, I can function for awhile with less sleep, when I become deprived a certain amoun...
 
Say Good Night to Insomnia
by Gregg D. Jacobs
Amazon Price: $10.88
Customer Review: I felt this book was condescending. I didn't find the logs helpful in this format. The tone was very pompous and self congratulatory. I had better results using the book "No More Sleepless Night."
 
Sound Sleep, Sound Mind: 7 Keys to Sleeping Through the Night
by Barry Krakow
Amazon Price: $16.47
Customer Review: Inadequate sleep is a poorly understood and often underestimated medical problem. This book helps us all analyze unhealthy sleep patterns and identify ways to correct them. I found the content useful for both health professionals and the general public. I highly recommend it to persons with sleep problems and those trying to help them.
 
Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia
by Patricia Morrisroe
Amazon Price: $16.50
Customer Review: Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia by Patricia Morrisroe. I bought this for my grandaughter.She said it is really were good and helpful.
 
natural sleep remedies - Google News

Teen night owls: 2 wired 2 sleep - Minneapolis Star Tribune
1 Sep 2010 at 3:59pm

Teen night owls: 2 wired 2 sleep
Minneapolis Star Tribune
They're running in a chronic sleep-deprived state Monday through Friday." Teens have a bit of what he calls a natural "sleep delay," or tendency to stay up ...

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Exercises for natural sleep aid - Helium
1 Sep 2010 at 11:33pm

Exercises for natural sleep aid
Helium
by se Jones Most people know that exercise during the day helps people sleep at night; the unfortunate thing is that a lot of people also seem to think that ...


 
Potential Cognitive Impairment Can Be Avoided - PR Web (press release)
1 Sep 2010 at 12:51pm

PR Web (press release)

Potential Cognitive Impairment Can Be Avoided
PR Web (press release)
Recent study shows drugs called anticholinergics included in many OTC Sleep Aids may cause long-term cognitive impairment. There are natural solutions ...


 
Why teenagers stay up late - Washington Post
29 Aug 2010 at 10:22pm

Why teenagers stay up late
Washington Post
... 8 am Early school start times harm teens by cutting into their natural sleep cycle, forcing them to lose some of their best and deepest sleep each day. ...

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