Insomnia Discussion

This article was interesting to me because it was along the lines of what we are currently doing. It was a sort of "tough love" if you will, learning about all the habits that affect our sleep. For me, getting the second opinion is always important. Fact checking and learning from what others have found to have worked. This study breaks down the facts just as our course has been doing. It was interesting to me to see how sleep has been directly impacting the way that I am aging and how it affects me more the older that I get. Not sure if it is our youth that tolerates it or maybe just the was we are able to adapt better. I recommend the article. I have attached to link above. Again the class and presentation from Harvard was very similar to the study that we are participating in…

   A Small scale pilot study was done on 20 healthy students to analyze the effects of auditory stimulation using delta binaural beats on sleep quality and post sleep mood.

   The study lasted 2 weeks, first week was to gather baseline data, and second week was the trial and all students were exposed to 90min of binaural beats in the delta frequency range.

   Although data was only measured subjectively through the use of questionnaires, the pilot study concluded that the use of binaural beats improved the students sleep quality and reduced the amount of times they woke up in the middle of the night, as well as the students noting it had positive effects on their mood throughout the day, specifically stating they suffered from less anxiety and overall anger.

Have you ever used Binaural Beats? And what was your experience in doing so?

Dabiri R, Monazzam Esmaielpour…

39 participants were chosen to undergo the study   Of comparing sleep deprivation to alcohol consumption. Participants were kept awake for 28 hours then given various tests to measure response speed and accuracy.

After just 17-19 hours without sleep reaction speeds began to get worse than having a BAC of 0.05%. After the full 28 hours, these individual test results became equivalent to 0.1% BAC.

I pose a simple discussion question:

   If it’s illegal to drive with a BAC of 0.08%, how can it be not only legal, but our job, to drive AND perform other work related duties after potentially being awake for 48hrs.

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• Williamson AM, Feyer AM. Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication. Occup Environ Med. 2000 Oct;57(10):649-55. doi: 10.1136/oem.57.10.649. PMID: 10984335; PMCID: PMC1739867.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/374/6567