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Say good night to insomnia

Title: Say good night to insomnia

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2009

Description: It's something you do more than anything else in your life. It affects your mood, energy level, mind, body and overall health. The amount of sleep you get -- or don't -- get can also effect your relationships, at home and work-- even your marriage.

Full Article: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/say_good_night_to_insomnia_interview_with_dr_gregg_jacobs_091409

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" Everything you do more than anything else in your life it affects your mood your love your mind your body and overall healthy sleep you get or don't get. Don't affect early at home and work even your marriage and op solution is developing a -- drug free program. That he -- in large majority. -- morning doctor great DJ -- And I'll bet that the cutting lead to order patterns of her. Medical school. His new book appropriately titled good -- when I'm it is out now doctor Jacobs or he's joining us this morning we have problems the country music."

" We do have a problem the majority of adults have on diagnose the -- to order that on the common order I'm via an apnea but read it shows that only half of adults suffer from problems that people have problems are generally -- pills or cover for corruption are addicted to -- the number of people taking it into increased dramatically in the last where -- now about 55 million prescriptions for it until written last year. The majority of adults who take it until -- can become psychologically dependent on them or physically dependent on that and yet a large number of adults acting bill. Can become addicted to an on form. Those actually work or ecological thing that Florida. Take a cold. It is psychological effect -- was a major study to confirm that the company's management area that was probably two years ago showing that. The majority of new sleeping pills do not produce objective improved and leader he built a fact but when you measure their effect objectively in a lab they don't work better than that sugar -- I didn't have people battled this problem and without falling back. You've got a pro eight people get older drugs for what what that the -- that got. Well for you recognize it until -- not the Aleutian Islands on yeah secondly after recognized if you want to overcome the nominee of the little bit of effort and -- change the behaviors. That put a new treatment called cognitive behavioral therapy. EDT for short. It teaches you to change that behavior that are actually maintaining -- on media and among those behaviors can be reversed. Hearing ease with a little too weak or within five. Of those papers. Profit not patient who don't leave -- think that if -- go to bed earlier that you better catch up on going to bed earlier make it more likely you're going to lie awake at night. If you're only in five hours a night -- and more than five -- bet you wanna be awake longer under the right stronger. Secondly don't eat later on weekends if you eat and on weekends you're -- jet -- every week without fly. Those are very ample examples of what you -- on April. Re are too much. Or too little right that's been a major myth promoted by drug companies and by the researchers were funded by drug companies that we need eight hours later. We are now is very clear that people who that the longer seven hours people who lead eight or nine often times die earlier than people who leaked it."

" If you are having a problem falling. You and your body and in the -- if he did you order a bit too early that the body is telling even if this afternoon -- I respond that -- bright and already trying to fight it off and maybe get a little bit earlier with electrical was the first."

" Or -- taking an -- is very good idea for anybody like in the afternoon taking a -- the little ten minutes are up to 45 minute -- ward off the drought and how you feel better for the arrest the day. In the evening if you felt like the 8 o'clock tried to go to bed -- backfire. Which you actually have to do is learn to -- stricter time in -- to a certain amount what you learned in my program either through my book my web I EDT conference on the dot com. You actually learn not to go to bed before curtain time get out of -- by a certain time of one you know those guidelines. You're able to follow it -- leave they leave -- tonight and feel a lot less tired and -- during the day."

" Order on time what do you telephone out their rules aren't suffering from a community that can lead. What a mind can you give them let them know that you can indeed get over the."

" Don't rely on sleeping pills invest on at a time and effort learning cognitive behavioral therapy and don't worry about eight hours tonight if you -- haven't you'll be fine."

" doctors to report information we appreciate -- coming in the morning when Intel spoke to from port commission. Or writing his book. You can visit the web -- current on the dot com all one word -- Not competent doctor. And more."

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