"Praise God for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made"
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What a great text the
psalmist, David, shared with us
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and I want to welcome each
one of you to "Wonderfully Made"
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Thank you for allowing
us to come into your home
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and to minister to you
today, and to help teach
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more about the bodies
that God has given us.
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Today, we have an exciting topic
that I'm very passionate about
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and that's the topic of sleep!
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I'm glad to have with
me today, Mr. Daniel Miller
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Dan, I'm glad you're
here today. Thank you
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Now, Dan, is a
businessman from Chattanooga, TN
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and he's also a health consumer
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And, in talking about
sleep, I think it's very useful
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to have someone that
might have had some experience
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with sleep, and I
think all of us have had some
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experience with sleep. Right
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Can you just tell us some
of the experiences you've had
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in your sleeping patterns
over the last few years.
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Well, my sleeping patterns
are a little bit different than
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those peoples...
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Owning a business like I
do, I run the business during
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the day, and then at
night, I plan, in my mind,
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what my next day will be.
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And so, in doing that, what
I do is stay awake all night
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and so I've had to develop
ways that I can get my rest
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and still function...
which is very difficult when you
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don't have any rest.
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So that's part of
problems that I've had.
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Well how do you adapt to this,
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and do you think this
lack of sleep has affected
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your health, or your
performance in any way...
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or do you think
it's catching up to you,
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or you think it's
something your tolerating well?
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Now when you have a family,
it always affects the family
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when you don't
have enough sleep...
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you're grumpy the next
day, you're short with people,
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you don't have the
patience that you should have...
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You know, there are a
number of different issues when
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it comes to that.
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As far as my performance
at work, I don't think it
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affected that, but, you know
I can't tell you that for sure.
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You know, we deal with
our sleep habits in several
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different ways, I guess...
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And the way that I have
is I like it completely dark,
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and I sleep with a fan on.
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I can't sleep any other way.
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And so that's kind of
helped me deal with some of the
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issues that I've had
when it came to that.
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Well, that's what we're
going to talk about today.
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We're going to
talk about sleep...
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and as time has gone on
in the practice of medicine,
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I've gone on to think
that sleep is as important
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as anything else we do in
taking care of our bodies.
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And we're going to explore
that with today's topics.
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One of the things that I'm
now appreciating about sleep
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is, you know, Dan, most
people spend about a third
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of their life sleeping... Right
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...or trying to sleep well.
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Most people admit that
they don't feel like they
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do that part of their
life well ... sleeping well.
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Now, if I asked you
bluntly, "Do you think you're
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sleeping well in your life...
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Is that an aspect of your life
that you think you're doing well
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I think, at this point in
time, I am, because I've finally
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developed steps
that I needed to take.
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It's kind of a
learned behavior for me. Right
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A third of us... you know
we spend a third of our time
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in sleep, and it's sort
of a shameful admission,
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and I'm one of them to
admit that a third of my life...
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I'm not living well.
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And yet, as Christians,
and living to the glory of God,
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we want to do as well as we
can in ALL of our time... Right
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whether that's
sleeping time, or waking time
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I've studied some
statistics recently,
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and 60 million
Americans right now...
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60 million Americans...
and I'm sure those across
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the world have similar problems
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feel like they suffer
from insomnia... Right
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And insomnia is not
being able to sleep.
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A couple of interesting
statistics that I wanted to
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share with you, and the audience
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before we get started today...
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Did you know that a
giraffe, as big as a giraffe is,
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and as long as he is,
guess how many hours a day
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a giraffe
sleeps? I have no clue!
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A giraffe sleeps on the average
of 2 hours, or 1.9 hours a day
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That's an average
amount that a giraffe sleeps
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Now here's another animal that
I thought was very interesting
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Do you know how long
a brown bat sleep? No
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A brown bat sleeps
almost 20 hours a day!
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A brown bat spends
roughly 83% of his time sleeping
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We spend about a third
of our lifetime to sleep,
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so that's what we're
going to focus on today...
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ways we can think about
that one-third of our lives
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that we normally don't
give it much thought... Right
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So with that, let me tell
the audience how we got these
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questions... These
are people that write
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questions to
Heartwise Ministries from
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all over the country,
and what I'm doing is,
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I'm grouping these into topics,
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and these are all questions
that have to do on the topic
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of sleep, and I'm
praying that as we talk,
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that everyone will look
at their own sleep habits
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and maybe we can make
a change here or there.
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I don't think these
changes occur overnight.
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I think, you just try
to change here, and then as
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you feel better, you
move to the next one...
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So let's move on to
our questions now...
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All right... 1st question comes
from Brenda in California. Okay
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Brenda says, "My doctor gave
me a prescription to help me
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sleep at night... I
still sleep poorly. "
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"Should I take a
stronger dosage?"
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Okay. Well Brenda, I
think that a lot of people don't
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realize it, but I try,
in this type of situation,
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I would want to know... Why does
a person not sleep well at night
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What is the root cause?
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A medication really
doesn't solve the problem
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It just perpetuates it.
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And a lot of people don't
realize that when these sleep
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medicines came out years
ago, and some of the names
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...one was called "Halcion"
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I don't know if
you've heard of that... Right
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but they took that off
the market because it was
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causing people... Well, maybe
they didn't take it off the
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market, but it was
associated with adverse events.
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The most popular one
now is called "Ambien"
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but there are a lot of
other sleep aids out there.
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But the FAA only recommended
that these medications
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be taken for 2 weeks or less.
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They've never recommended
them to be taken long-term
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Is it possible then that
these medications are meant to
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reset your sleep clock?
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Because I, at one
time, had taken Ambien,
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and for a short period of
time while I was taking it,
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I just didn't
understand how sleepy I was
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until I woke up one morning,
and realized that I was so
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rested, you know, life
was totally different for me.
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Well that's possible because
the sleep aids change the
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chemical
transmitters in the brain.
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And they're only made, really,
for the short period of time
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until you can look at
the cause of what caused
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the insomnia to begin with.
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I'm afraid nowadays that
people are staying on these
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years, and years, and years,
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and they're not getting
at the cause, and they're all
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altering the chemicals, but
we're never FIXING the problem
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We're just sort of
covering it up and that problem
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is going to get worse,
and every chemical reaction
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you have in your body
leads to something else... Right
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So let's get back to
Brenda for a second...
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Brenda... We're going to look
at a graphic here that might
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give us some suggestions to
help you sleep well at night
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and looking at the cause
of why you don't sleep well
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The first sleep suggestion
that I would give to you...
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and you might be doing
a lot of these things...
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is try to have an empty stomach
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We recommend having a
stomach empty 3 to 4 hours
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before you go to bed at night
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because a lot of your
energy goes to digesting food.
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Up to a third of your blood
flow goes to digest the food
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Also when you lay down at night,
you could have acid bubbling up
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and that can
affect sleep greatly
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We would like for you
to avoid stimulants...
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More exercise during the
day, so you're more tired
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Avoid stress and
that's a whole other topic.
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Sometimes you can take a natural
substance called "melatonin"
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that might aid in your sleep.
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Another thing that seems
to help sleep is laughter
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Laughter creates
all these endorphins,
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and I wonder if
Johnny Carson slept better
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because he laughed so much.
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Sunlight increases a
substance called serotonin which
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aids in sleep.
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And, of course,
reading the Bible...
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In Ephesians 4:26, it
suggests that we don't go to bed
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ever with anger in our hearts.
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These are all some suggestions
that might help you a little
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bit in dealing
with sleep, Brenda
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Now, one of things we
mentioned just a second ago was
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stimulants...
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Now, what kind of things,
when you were having your
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sleep problems, that you
considered that might have
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stimulated your mind at
night, or your whole body system
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that might have
affected you, because I think
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a lot of people don't look into
things that stimulate... Right
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Other than just the caffeines
and so on and so forth... Right
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Everyone knows
about the caffeines,
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and everyone knows about,
you know, certain medicines
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What are other things that might
have added to your problem, Dan
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For myself, a child,
you know... That's right
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It came at a time when
we had just had our daughter
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and, you know, she was up at
different times during the night
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so it broke up my sleep pattern.
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There's a whole list of
different things, I would assume
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and you probably know
more about those than I do,
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but you've got
lights being a stimulant...
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You've got sounds
being a stimulant.
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For myself, light is a
major stimulant for me.
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Temperature... being very
hot is probably one of the
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major causes that I don't sleep;
I like to sleep in a cool room
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Well, in talking a little
bit more about stimulants,
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anything that affects
the senses, can adversely
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really affect
these sleep patterns,
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because, remember, at
night the sleep time is a time
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where you're
basically turning off...
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And anything that's
coming into the senses,
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could alter this...
whether it be a sound,
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how about snoring next door?
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Does your wife snore?
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No, and I'll never
admit that on national... Okay
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Well, I mean... you
don't have to admit that,
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but I hear a lot of
people that snore at night,
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so the other one
doesn't get good sleep...
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And no one will
say anything... Yes
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You'll leave a third of
your life tired and in torture
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rather than say, "Listen,
you have a sleeping problem...
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we need to deal with that...
Well most people will deny
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that they do snore... Right
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I think lights is a good
one, sound... How about taste?
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I've had some people that
had a bad taste in their mouth
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and they can't
sleep from that...
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That's another sense
that needs to be turned off.
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And that goes back... I
think a lot of the sleep
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problems we have,
these 60 million people,
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this food is a big deal...
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How many people
eat late at night now?
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I would say a lot. I
don't know the numbers.
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We didn't bring up...
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You know, we talked
about the caffeine...
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a lot of people don't
realize that caffeine could stay
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in your system up
to 20 hours. Right
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It's just not, you know,
you drink 1 coke in the morning
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or caffeinated
beverages, and it's totally out
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And, caffeine affects
people different ways...
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Some people can get by with it.
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Alcohol... a lot of people drink
alcohol, because they think
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it's going to help them
relax at night and go to sleep.
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...And is that the
case? No, it's not the case
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Alcohol BREAKS up your
good sleep pattern because it
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changes again... some of
those neurotransmitters that's
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going on in your head... Right
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I'm finally... here's one
big one in our society that I
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think needs to be talked
about, about why Americans
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aren't sleeping well.
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And going back, a
third of our life...
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this is a long period of time!
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I'm very passionate about
why we've given that away.
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A third... a lot of
people are watching too much
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television... #1 Yeah
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And I think that
stimulates the mind.
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One way or the other,
before you go to bed...
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I mean, you know, there are
not too many good shows anymore
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Of course, the shows on
3ABN make exception to that
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And also, the
sports, sporting events
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You know, everyone
gets revved up and excited,
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and when you get revved up,
and excited, those chemicals
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that make the stress
hormones go up, and it's a whole
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cascade of events... so
we can't turn off that clock!
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...And video games
Yeah, video games are just
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a host of things...
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And I think in talking
to people about getting good
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sleep, I want to
encourage everyone out there
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to look at the stimulants
you have before you go to bed
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We want to turn OFF the senses
and not turn ON the senses
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Well I think, Brenda, I hope
we can get at the root cause
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of yours, but let's go
to another question now
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Let's go to a
question from Max, in Texas
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He writes, "How do I know
if I'm getting enough sleep?"
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Well, that's a good question
since we're talking about sleep
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It's a difficult
question, actually
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And we hear this frequently...
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How many hours of sleep
do you need to feel well?
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Or to know that
you're getting enough sleep?
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And how do you know
you're getting enough sleep?
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I don't know...
everybody's different...
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Bill Clinton says he only needed
4 hours of sleep per night
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to exist as our President.
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Well that's not
very much... 4 hours
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I would have wanted him
to sleep a little bit more
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But it goes back to saying
that everybody is different
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One of the things...
you know, how do you KNOW?
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That's a good way, and I
think you have to think about it
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And, I think that in
sleep, you have to treat sleep
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like a job... You
want to do it well
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...you want to
learn about your body,
00:14:09.74\00:14:11.27
find out about your
sleep patterns, and OPTIMIZE it
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And, one of the
things that we know is...
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If you have to wake
up to an alarm clock,
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maybe you're not getting
enough good sleep... okay
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A second thing is if
you're tired in the day,
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we KNOW that you're
not getting good sleep
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ALSO, frequently people that
are not getting enough sleep
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are involved in
more accidents Correct
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You know... they
do CRAZY stuff...
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They get in car accidents.
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We see in people, one
sign that might not be
00:14:36.44\00:14:39.38
getting enough
sleep is frequent colds
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They get colds a
lot, and infections...
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Lowered immune system
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But when at night, when
you don't get enough sleep,
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the immune system is affected
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There are these
cells in the body called...
00:14:48.76\00:14:50.16
"natural killer cells"
00:14:50.19\00:14:51.75
And, Dan, these go
around and really scarf up those
00:14:51.78\00:14:55.25
things that aren't
supposed to be there.
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We know that people
that don't sleep just don't
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make these to the
degree that people does
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Another thing
that might be a sign...
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this is a little bit off...
and you're going to have to
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follow me with this one...
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A sign that you're not
getting enough sleep is
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people getting fat!
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Now would you
believe that? No...
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People getting
fat could be a sign...
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as you're not
getting enough sleep
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Well, what goes
on in your brain...
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when you're not
getting enough sleep...
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there's a hormone
called "growth hormone"
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that helps people grow...
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And you've heard that kids
grow at night when they sleep
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Well, at night, that's when the
growth hormone really kicks in.
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But at night, if
you're not sleeping well,
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the growth hormone
levels could go down
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And if your growth
hormone levels go down,
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guess what happens?
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You're not growing,
you're not metabolizing much,
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you could... say you're
putting on extra pounds.. Right
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And another thing
that could happen...
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...you wake up
tired the next day,
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you're stressed out...
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And how do people deal
with stress... some people?
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I deal with it very poorly.
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But some people EAT...
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You know, they wake up
and they don't feel good in
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the morning, so what
are they going to get?
00:15:58.19\00:15:59.71
You know, more things
that adversely thought...
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they might get
some more donuts...
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They might say, "Well, let's
have a cappuccino or something
00:16:04.73\00:16:07.47
to get the day going...
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And all along,
they're not dealing with the
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root called stress
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Now another thing that
goes down is there's a hormone
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in the brain
that's called "leptin"
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Leptin is a very important
hormone that says... "I'm full"
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And if you're not
making this leptin hormone,
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you're always not
feeling this "full"
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and this happens in
people that don't sleep well
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Now, are there medications
that can take over for leptin?
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Not really...
not that I know of.
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It's just sleep... God has made
the body to need sleep... Right
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And with that sleep, you
have restorative patterns
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and your brain does
things at sleep that
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it can't do during the day.
00:16:41.22\00:16:42.38
It processes memories...
it makes these hormones
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like leptin
that says, "I'm full"
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It does a lot of things...
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The brain is a busy
place... even when you're not
00:16:47.81\00:16:50.09
conscious to it. Right
00:16:50.12\00:16:51.36
And a lot of people,
when they think about sleep,
00:16:51.39\00:16:53.01
they don't think,
"Well, my brain has to go to a
00:16:53.04\00:16:55.46
different environment for
a while to get its job done
00:16:55.49\00:16:59.02
So, they're not letting
their brain get it's job done
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It's like, you know,
you're working all the time...
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and the brain is still working,
00:17:03.95\00:17:05.60
but it's doing a
different type of work...
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And see, that goes back to
what I was having problems with
00:17:07.26\00:17:09.66
...My brain never
shut down at night. Right
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And different parts need to work
00:17:12.26\00:17:13.81
And other things... Have
you ever heard the comment
00:17:13.84\00:17:15.68
that... "I need
my beauty sleep?" Yes
00:17:15.71\00:17:18.08
Do you know that studies
have shown that people that
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don't get sleep,
AGE must faster...
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They get
wrinkles... the full 9 yards
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And it's sort of the same
process we're talking about
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Resting... I view resting as
therapy for many things... okay
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In the Bible, Genesis 2...
00:17:33.70\00:17:35.47
The God of the
Universe worked 6 days...
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and then what
did He do? He rested.
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He rested a full day.
00:17:39.82\00:17:41.06
And, He set up day and night.
00:17:41.09\00:17:43.22
And if this rest
was good enough for Him,
00:17:43.25\00:17:44.96
there must have been
a master plan... Correct
00:17:44.99\00:17:47.19
And we see... "Well, why
do we get all these diseases?"
00:17:47.22\00:17:49.50
"Why do we have
all these problems?"
00:17:49.51\00:17:50.87
"Why do we have
all these stresses?"
00:17:50.90\00:17:52.52
One of the problems, I think,
is not getting enough sleep.
00:17:52.55\00:17:55.61
So, getting back
to Max's question...
00:17:55.64\00:17:58.54
Some of the things we
talked about... the alarm clock,
00:17:58.57\00:18:00.84
the tired, the accidents,
the frequent health problems
00:18:00.87\00:18:03.40
Max, are you
getting wrinkles early?
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You know, maybe that's a sign.
00:18:06.54\00:18:08.00
But all these might
be a sign that you're
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not getting enough sleep.
00:18:09.69\00:18:11.08
All right, let's go to
Fred in North Carolina...
00:18:11.09\00:18:17.71
He says, "My wife told me
that I have sleep apnea. "
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She is not a doctor, but
does read a lot. Oh... okay
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There you have it!
Could she be right?
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Well, Fred, take it
from a man that's married...
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My wife is always right!
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And you're going to have to
treat it that way. Mine is too.
00:18:34.38\00:18:36.90
Fred, you're going to
have to just treat it that way
00:18:36.93\00:18:38.44
You know, your wife is right...
00:18:38.47\00:18:39.67
And in this case, Fred,
you know off the record,
00:18:39.70\00:18:41.87
she IS right about this one.
00:18:41.90\00:18:43.05
You could very
well have sleep apnea.
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And sleep apnea is a
medical condition where at night
00:18:45.22\00:18:49.78
you don't breathe...
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Sleep apnea...
apnea means periods where
00:18:51.64\00:18:55.15
you're not breathing at night
00:18:55.16\00:18:57.11
And the sort of
characteristic breathing pattern
00:18:57.14\00:19:01.01
is like this...
00:19:01.04\00:19:04.70
they do that
over, and over and over
00:19:04.73\00:19:06.72
And physiologically,
when that happens,
00:19:06.75\00:19:09.50
the oxygen levels go
down in the body... Right
00:19:09.53\00:19:12.17
So the tissues
don't get renewed...
00:19:12.20\00:19:14.21
You can have high blood
pressures in the lungs...
00:19:14.22\00:19:16.36
it can cause all
sorts of problems...
00:19:16.39\00:19:18.20
The heart has to pump harder
00:19:18.23\00:19:19.62
It can cause funny heart
rhythms... numerous things
00:19:19.65\00:19:22.61
Recently, sleep apnea, they say,
What was that football player,
00:19:22.64\00:19:25.99
the Green Bay
Packers, "Reggie"... White?
00:19:26.02\00:19:28.42
Reggie White!
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He actually had sleep apnea...
a big old strapping guy,
00:19:29.46\00:19:33.23
very young... He had
this as a complication
00:19:33.24\00:19:35.97
Nowadays, Fred, a lot of
people are walking around with
00:19:35.98\00:19:39.49
sleep apnea, and they walk
around it their whole lives
00:19:39.52\00:19:42.41
and they never
realize they don't have it
00:19:42.44\00:19:44.53
The cells in the body aren't
getting enough oxygen... Right
00:19:44.56\00:19:47.90
So, the symptoms
of sleep apnea, Dan,
00:19:47.91\00:19:50.23
people that have it...
00:19:50.26\00:19:51.48
They're tired all the time
00:19:51.51\00:19:53.51
They have headaches
00:19:53.52\00:19:55.39
They could have
high blood pressure
00:19:55.42\00:19:57.54
They're irritable...
because they're not sleeping
00:19:57.57\00:20:00.62
They make lots of mistakes...
00:20:00.63\00:20:02.32
It's a major problem... A
difficult thing to go through
00:20:02.35\00:20:05.87
I had a cousin at one time,
that had this same situation
00:20:05.90\00:20:10.50
and he would go to
sleep at a red light!
00:20:10.53\00:20:13.35
And... people would
come, and have to wake him up
00:20:13.38\00:20:16.09
to get him to go
through the red light...
00:20:16.12\00:20:17.79
so I thought that was kind
of a dangerous situation...
00:20:17.82\00:20:21.60
How is he doing now?
00:20:21.63\00:20:22.72
He is,... well,
taking care of it.
00:20:22.75\00:20:26.47
Now, we have a video, a
slide that we want to show up
00:20:26.50\00:20:31.46
about the different
aspects of sleep apnea
00:20:31.49\00:20:33.76
and, going over
the consequences...
00:20:33.79\00:20:36.82
What happens when
you have sleep apnea?
00:20:36.85\00:20:38.82
We talked about the fatigue,
being tired all the time
00:20:38.85\00:20:41.36
Headaches might be a symptom
00:20:41.39\00:20:43.43
High blood pressure... we talked
about the abnormal heart rhythms
00:20:43.46\00:20:46.62
and we put strain on the
heart because it has to pump
00:20:46.65\00:20:49.77
against such high
pressures in the lungs.
00:20:49.80\00:20:52.75
So sleep apnea is a problem
that we need to deal with
00:20:52.78\00:20:59.82
What are several ways or
applications that they use
00:20:59.85\00:21:04.67
in the medical field
to deal with sleep apnea?
00:21:04.70\00:21:07.58
A couple of things... I
think the most useful thing is
00:21:07.61\00:21:11.91
losing weight and exercising.
00:21:11.94\00:21:13.48
They say that if you
can lose about 15 pounds,
00:21:13.51\00:21:15.73
often you can treat
sleep apnea successfully...
00:21:15.76\00:21:18.30
But usually, it's
because of the airway...
00:21:18.31\00:21:20.19
there's too much pressure on it,
00:21:20.22\00:21:21.48
or the muscle tone in
the tongue is poor... Right
00:21:21.51\00:21:24.16
Sometimes they can cut an
area in the back of your throat
00:21:24.19\00:21:27.10
to let more air in and out.
00:21:27.13\00:21:28.82
But the most common type
of treatment is where they
00:21:28.85\00:21:31.13
put a mask... it's
called a "sleep mask"
00:21:31.16\00:21:33.89
and it blows air in
00:21:33.92\00:21:35.62
And what I try to
do in the management of
00:21:35.65\00:21:37.65
sleep apnea, is
hit it on 2-folds
00:21:37.69\00:21:39.63
I try to get to
the root of the cause
00:21:39.66\00:21:41.57
...If it's
weight loss, lose weight
00:21:41.60\00:21:43.49
...If it's sleeping
in a different position,
00:21:43.50\00:21:45.37
as well as placing the mask
until they can do that... Right
00:21:45.38\00:21:48.53
And people that wear the
mask it's a pain to wear,
00:21:48.56\00:21:51.32
but they feel so much better
for the first time in years
00:21:51.35\00:21:54.08
they've had rest
00:21:54.11\00:21:55.61
It's amazing, so...
00:21:55.64\00:21:57.74
Now with Fred, who's
up in North Carolina,
00:21:57.75\00:22:00.81
would he take what
his wife says for granted
00:22:00.84\00:22:04.02
...or would he
go to a sleep center
00:22:04.05\00:22:06.24
where they would be able
to help him a little bit?
00:22:06.27\00:22:08.32
Dan, what would you
do in this situation?
00:22:08.33\00:22:11.36
I think I'd go to
the sleep center...
00:22:11.39\00:22:12.89
I think I might...
What I would do, Fred, is
00:22:12.92\00:22:15.04
I would tell my wife...
00:22:15.05\00:22:16.21
I'd say, "Honey, you're probably
so right, and I think you're
00:22:16.24\00:22:19.59
SO right, that I'm going
over to this sleep center...
00:22:19.62\00:22:23.14
and there, they're
going to watch me when I sleep
00:22:23.15\00:22:25.04
and they'll hook me
up to oxygen monitors,
00:22:25.05\00:22:27.13
and they'll see if my
oxygen level goes down
00:22:27.16\00:22:29.28
in the middle of the night,
and if I meet criteria for
00:22:29.31\00:22:32.03
sleep apnea, then I'll have
aggressive treatment for this.
00:22:32.07\00:22:34.75
If this goes on untreated,
00:22:34.78\00:22:36.11
it creates tons of health
problems down the road... Right
00:22:36.14\00:22:39.75
So, I hope that
answers your question, Fred,
00:22:39.79\00:22:41.36
...that's what I
would do All righty!
00:22:41.39\00:22:43.81
The next question
comes from Dave in Reno...
00:22:43.84\00:22:49.73
He says, "Is there a difference
between resting and sleeping?"
00:22:49.76\00:22:53.57
"I rest a lot but
sleep only a little. "
00:22:53.60\00:22:56.82
Wow... Dave, this is
one of the most difficult
00:22:56.85\00:23:00.56
questions I think
I have to answer...
00:23:00.59\00:23:03.87
in sorting through
resting and sleeping...
00:23:03.90\00:23:06.79
You can be asleep and
not get good rest... Right
00:23:06.82\00:23:12.46
And also, you can
rest and not sleep
00:23:12.47\00:23:15.49
So, in answering your question,
Dan, what I've been trying to do
00:23:15.52\00:23:21.11
in the treatment of people,
00:23:21.14\00:23:22.17
how do you know
what's true in life?
00:23:22.20\00:23:23.85
You know, you
see... eat this diet,
00:23:23.88\00:23:25.87
high fat diet, low fat diet...
00:23:25.90\00:23:28.38
or being fed
everything through the media
00:23:28.41\00:23:30.55
You know, how do
you know what's true?
00:23:30.59\00:23:31.96
This medication
is so good for you,
00:23:32.00\00:23:33.34
then you take it off the market
00:23:33.37\00:23:35.07
So what I do when it
comes to tough questions,
00:23:35.10\00:23:37.57
I try to turn to the Bible,
00:23:37.60\00:23:38.88
and see if the
Bible gives us insight
00:23:38.91\00:23:40.63
Like the Day of Rest...
00:23:40.66\00:23:41.78
you know, that only makes sense
00:23:41.81\00:23:43.32
I'm turning to
God for our answers...
00:23:43.35\00:23:45.24
The diet, you know, Daniel and
his friends... the diet they ate
00:23:45.27\00:23:48.51
But, I want to throw some
texts up here in our next slide
00:23:48.54\00:23:52.66
here and give some texts
that I wanted to share with Dave
00:23:52.70\00:23:56.24
that might help him a little bit
00:23:56.27\00:23:58.35
Sleep does not
necessarily equal rest,
00:23:58.36\00:24:02.09
and one of the texts I
like to share is Matthew 11:28
00:24:02.12\00:24:06.61
and that's the text that says...
00:24:06.64\00:24:08.39
"Come unto me, all
ye that are heavy laden,
00:24:08.42\00:24:11.47
and I will give you rest. "
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What do we have to do?
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We have to come unto him,
and I will GIVE you rest...
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That's a gift!
So I will give you
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Now that's not necessarily
sleep, but that's a REST
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in itself... "I
will GIVE you REST"
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Psalms 37:7...
again talks about REST
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And then there's
Genesis 2:2, where it says...
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"God worked for 6 days"
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The God of the
universe, of the whole universe
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...What did He do
for 1 day? He rested!
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And I don't think
He slept at all...
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I mean He might have
slept, but He rested,
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so understanding
what God means by REST
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I think it's all about,
you know, our spirituality
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...you know, to have
that rest, that peace,
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where the mind is
allowed to work on other things
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It brings to the mind one
more text that I wanted to share
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with everyone...
Hebrews 4:9, says...
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"There remains therefore,
a REST for the people of God"
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I think that when you
have God in your life,
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there's a certain
rest that you cannot attain
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any other way.
Right, I agree with that
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We've got one more question Okay
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"I'm a truck driver,
and my shift is at night,
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I sleep during
the day. I am 45...
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Is this hurting
my overall health?
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There are so
many different aspects
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that could be talked about here.
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There could be a chance
if you're not resting well
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during the day, that
it could affect you...
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Have you ever worked shift-work?
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Have you ever had to
work night? I really haven't.
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Well this question is
very dear to me because
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I DO stay up at
night, and Tuesday night
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is my call night,
as long as weekends,
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and I never sleep
well on that night,
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and I do think
it affects my health
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because when you
break that night/day cycle
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that's not natural,
and when you disregard
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one of, sort of, God's
Laws, you're going to have some
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consequences, and the
consequences that we're
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talking about... the circadian
rhythms, you've heard that term
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Yes... the
night/day... God created that
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At light, we have a substance,
when light comes into us...
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a substance, a sleep substance
that's made called melatonin
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And this is released
from the pineal gland,
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and this actually
helps us sleep a great deal.
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So, I think that
when you break this cycle,
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you know, the light/day
cycle, these natural chemicals
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that help you have true rest,
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it is
disturbed... right thrown off
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And then you get these
subsequent health problems
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that we sort of
identified with that adversely
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affects everything.
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I've also heard that night
shift work basically affects
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your whole
quality of life long-term
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And it's probably the
same mechanism of this light
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melatonin, pineal... all
this is probably as an associate
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Well, we've
certainly covered a lot about
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sleep today, Dan...
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I want to thank
you for joining us
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I appreciate your inviting me,
I've had a great time... Good
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A couple of final thoughts
I want to leave everyone with
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are that sleep is an
important part of our lives,
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and we spend a third of
our life resting or sleeping
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...we need to do it
well, and to the glory of God
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We need to think
about our sleep patterns
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and do it right...
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Spend some time thinking
about it like we've done today
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and just not sort of
haphazardly let the years
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go by, and then all
of a sudden figure out we
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have health problems
because we didn't sleep.
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And the second thing I
want to leave everyone with
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is poor sleep could certainly
be because of stimulants
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We have too many stimulants
in our lives, too many stressors
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We've talked about
TV, eating big at night...
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We've talked about
caffeine that 80% of the
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United States is now taking.
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Now finally, the last
thing that we want to talk about
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is the TRUE rest... the
real peace that comes within
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it comes from walking with God
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"Come unto me all ye
that are heavy laden,
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and I will give you rest. "
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What a wonderful
promise for us today!
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