Show 1125: How Can You Find Your Sleep Solution? (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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You may have read or heard that adequate sleep is a pillar of good health, like exercise and a healthy diet. Sleep affects blood pressure and heart disease, metabolism and obesity, the immune system, cognitive function and mood. But if you can’t get enough sleep, that information is more frustrating than helpful. What is interfering […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Grayden. And I'm Terry Grayden. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.2	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Do you sleep in on weekends?
0:17.0	What about during a vacation?
0:19.0	Your body may be trying to repay a sleep debt,
0:21.0	but is that even possible? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and
0:26.2	Joe Grayden. The CDC reports that at least third of American adults get less than seven hours of sleep a night.
0:41.0	Chronic sleep disturbances can have serious consequences for health.
0:45.0	Is there anything you can do to improve the quality and quantity of your sleep?
0:50.0	Sleeping pills are not an ideal answer.
0:53.0	Over-the-counter PM pain relievers contain diphenhydramine,
0:57.0	the antihistamine in Benadryl.
0:59.0	It's sedating, but it can affect the brain.
1:02.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:04.0	we talk with the author of The Sleep Solution.
1:08.0	First, the news.
1:17.0	In the People in the people's pharmacy health headlines. Some women with the most common type of breast cancer might safely skip chemotherapy.
1:22.0	That's the finding from a study presented at the American
1:25.1	Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
1:30.4	In this trial, scientists conducted genetic testing on the tumors of more than 10,000 women.
1:36.0	Over 6,000 of them had risk scores in the intermediate range.
1:41.0	The investigators randomly assigned these volunteers to get anti-estrogen treatment
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