Can missing an hour or two of sleep every night shorten your life?
Yes, it can. It's a frightening prospect in a time when long hours and hard work are valued, sleep discouraged.
Not only that. Habitually shortchanging sleep needs can:
Increase blood sugar and blunt insulin resp...
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sleep deprivation
Sunny
Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 06:14 AMre: sleep deprivation
Bernie
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:37 PMI have had similar proplems in the past. I have been using l-tryptophan and time-release melatonon. 300 to 400 mg tryptophan (powder in orange juice) a least two hours after dinner. Then .3 to .6 mg time-release melatonin about an hour later. I still have to reduce the light level and relax for about an hour before bed.
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Oh, how I wish I could sleep more than 4-5 hours a night! I have all the time in the world but I just can't sleep. I don't have sleep apnea. I've tried the OTC benadryl, etc. They just make me drunk the next day. And usually, they don't work anyway.
I've taken the "bad" stuff too and it scares me - totally wiped out the next day. Afraid to be "asleep while driving."
So, here I am on the computer in the middle of the night, just to have something to do besides lie restlessly in bed.