YOUR WELLBEING
Spring Wellbeing Insights by Shannon Esau – CEO
HEALTHY SLEEPING – NOT ALWAYS EASY TO ACHIEVE
Sleep really is everything to our wellbeing. Did you know those that work the graveyard shift for many years are more likely to develop diabetes, obesity and heart related diseases. The sleep patterns are irregulated changing our circadian rhythms and causing internal issues. As we are aging sleep can become more difficult primarily due to changes in hormones and loss of melatonin.
Sleep is essential for brain awareness and development, energy levels, restoring the body, improving your mood, boosting immune system, overall heart health, reduces stress and prevents weight gain. Sleep certainly has amazing value for us so what do we do when we are tossing and turning all night. Let’s start with getting ourselves prepared for bed: • Limit Caffeine – typically you don’t want to have any caffeine past 1 or 2 in the afternoon. If you are drinking caffeine try a less potent white tea to balance the body and create less effects on sleeping. • Eating too much before bed can cause digestion issues and keep the body from slowing down and getting in that rest state. Typically, I try to eat larger meal for breakfast and lunch and less in the evening. This is so much better for our overall health. In the evening give yourself about 2 to 3 hours without eating before bedtime. • Lights matter – getting your room as dark as you can and starting to create more darkness in the house towards evening helps to kick in our melatonin. • Cell Phones – radio frequency transmission stimulates and can affect brain function. We want our brain to slow down so good idea is to put down the phone about 1 hour prior to bedtime.
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RA INSIGHT / SPRING 2023
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