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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 listen to the CD and have a hard time staying awake through it. If I wake up at night I just play the CD again and it puts me right back to sleep. I did listen to the CD one time during the day and was amazed at how some of the post hypnotic suggestions were delivered and how I would think it would be hard for them not to work for most people. I...
 
Say Good Night to Insomnia
by Gregg D. Jacobs
Amazon Price: $10.88
Customer Review: I have had insomnia for a year--difficulty falling asleep, although I sleep fine once I'm asleep. I have also been taking Ambien for 1 year, and want to wean off. I am on Night #6 of the program, and I have cut my dose of Ambien by 1/2 for 4 of those nights. I have been restricting my sleep to 6 hours, from 1 am to 7 am, and it's been HARD. Getting...
 
No More Sleepless Nights
by Peter Hauri, Shirley Linde
Amazon Price: $11.53
Customer Review: This is an excellent book written primarily by the former director of Sleep Disorders at the Mayo Clinic to assist you in self-diagnosis of insomnia. I received it from Amazon in a timely manner and in the condition stated in the ad. I like it so much that I would order it again.
 
Sound Sleep, Sound Mind: 7 Keys to Sleeping Through the Night
by Barry Krakow
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Customer Review: Having been plagued by physical problems (those which I won't discuss in this public forum) and having a general distaste for the medicated state of society, it was a relief to know that alternatives were out there. I'm not going to say that this book will change your life, but it will help anyone who is sincere in their desire to get sound sleep....
 
The Insomnia Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting the Sleep You Need
by Stephanie Silberman
Amazon Price: $14.93
Customer Review: I recently read "the insomnia workbook" by Dr. Stephanie Silberman as someone with sleep difficulties but not necessarily insomnia. Not sure if it would help my particular issues, I gave it a read and was overwhelmed with just how much pertinent information it contained. There is such great information that I was able to put into practice immedia...
 
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8 Natural Remedies That Help You Sleep - Newsmax Health
9 Mar 2010 at 7:45am

8 Natural Remedies That Help You Sleep
Newsmax Health
Before you rush to the drugstore to buy an over-the-counter sleep medication, try one of the following natural sleep remedies. "These are safer and have ...


 
Supporting Healthy Sleep - Natural Products Marketplace
8 Mar 2010 at 8:36am

Supporting Healthy Sleep
Natural Products Marketplace
Increasingly, adults are turning to natural sleep remedies. A recent survey out of Quebec found 18.5 percent of adults used natural sleep aids in the past ...


 
Day Care Workers Charged With Giving Kids Sleep Supplement - FOXNews
10 Mar 2010 at 12:10pm

Day Care Workers Charged With Giving Kids Sleep Supplement
FOXNews
Melatonin is a hormone produced in the brain by the pineal gland and helps control your natural sleep-wake cycle, the Mayo Clinic said on its Web site. ...

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Study: Lack of early light upsets teen sleep clock - The Associated Press
16 Feb 2010 at 2:10pm

Study: Lack of early light upsets teen sleep clock
The Associated Press
Lack of the right light each morning to reset the body's natural sleep clock might play a role in teenagers' out-of-whack sleep, a small but provocative ...
Study: Lack of early morning ?blue light? wrecks sleep pattern of teena...

 

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