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This is important health information for you. Sleep is one of the most important activities we can do each day. Yet, for many of us, there are times when sleep is elusive, just out of reach, either because we have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, tossing and turning or restless. Fortunately, there are simple techniques that we can incorporate in a daily routine to promote sleep.
While home remedies, habits and the set up of our bedrooms can be useful for promoting sleep, if you or someone you know as persistent insomnia, it is important to see your healthcare provider, as some serious conditions can affect sleep and it is important to rule out any complicating factors. For example, if someone has sleep apnea, a condition or situation where a person actually repeatedly stops breathing during the night, and the multiple occasions of breathlessness actually cause wakefulness. Someone with sleep apnea may rise in the morning feeling as though they haven’t had any sleep at all—even after lying in bed all night—due to the incessant periods of loss of breath that jars a person awake. Being overweight is one of the risk factors that can exacerbate sleep apnea.
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