Serving in the Army has made me a horrible sleeper, after years of deployments and countless of hours and medevac duty where you have to be at the ready in case of a mission. I have a hard time falling asleep at night; this has been an issue for me for the last ten years. I usually don’t go to bed till about 23:00 to 01:00 depending on the kind of day I had. If it was a stressful day then it is harder for me to wind down and fell asleep. When I do fall asleep I tend to wake up periodically through the night for no apparent season. I don’t toss and turn most of the night I am lye in one spot and there might the occasional adjustment, but always on my right side.
If I was able to change my chronic issues I would first change the times that I …show more content…
The main function of the circadian rhythms is the primarily response to light and darkness from the environment. It then sends signals to different parts of the brain that governs the release of certain hormones and governs bodily function like body temperature, urine production and changes in blood pressure. The circadian rhythms are controlled by the body’s biological clocks molecules cells that interact throughout the body and controlled by the body “master clock” the brain so they can stay in synch ("Circadian Rhythms Fact Sheet - National Institute of General Medical Sciences," …show more content…
There is a misconception that as we age we need less sleep, but our sleep requirement stay the same throughout our entire adulthood. So why so many older adults are having problems with falling asleep? Sleep specialists link this issue to “sleep architecture” a pattern of sleep that shifts between NREM and REM. Our sleep cycle is repeated several times a night, and as you get you tend to spend more time in the lighter stages of sleep cycle rather than falling into a deep sleep (Vitiello, 2009). Another change that older adults that affected their sleep patterns are the circadian rhythms, with age your natural biological clock tends to make you sleeper in the early in the evening and wake you up earlier in the morning. This change in older adults sleep pattern is called advanced sleep phase syndrome (Vitiello, 2009). They are many other factors that affect older adults from restful sleep like snoring, to sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movement disorder, and gastro esophageal reflux
If I was able to change my chronic issues I would first change the times that I …show more content…
The main function of the circadian rhythms is the primarily response to light and darkness from the environment. It then sends signals to different parts of the brain that governs the release of certain hormones and governs bodily function like body temperature, urine production and changes in blood pressure. The circadian rhythms are controlled by the body’s biological clocks molecules cells that interact throughout the body and controlled by the body “master clock” the brain so they can stay in synch ("Circadian Rhythms Fact Sheet - National Institute of General Medical Sciences," …show more content…
There is a misconception that as we age we need less sleep, but our sleep requirement stay the same throughout our entire adulthood. So why so many older adults are having problems with falling asleep? Sleep specialists link this issue to “sleep architecture” a pattern of sleep that shifts between NREM and REM. Our sleep cycle is repeated several times a night, and as you get you tend to spend more time in the lighter stages of sleep cycle rather than falling into a deep sleep (Vitiello, 2009). Another change that older adults that affected their sleep patterns are the circadian rhythms, with age your natural biological clock tends to make you sleeper in the early in the evening and wake you up earlier in the morning. This change in older adults sleep pattern is called advanced sleep phase syndrome (Vitiello, 2009). They are many other factors that affect older adults from restful sleep like snoring, to sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movement disorder, and gastro esophageal reflux