Show 1246: Getting the Sleep You Need Even in Anxious Times

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Adequate sleep is essential to good health. That is not a news flash; your grandmother and great-grandmother knew it. It’s simply become more difficult to get the sleep you need in these anxious times. An ongoing pandemic and all the disruptions it has caused to work, school and other aspects of life could keep millions […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:13.0	Sleep is important for good health.
0:17.0	It's especially helpful for a strong immune system.
0:20.0	How can you get the sleep you need? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Gragen. The pandemic has thrown a lot of our rhythms and routines off kilter.
0:38.2	Many people report that they're too worried to sleep well.
0:42.0	What can you do to get to sleep and stay asleep,
0:45.5	even in anxious times?
0:47.2	What about sleeping pills?
0:49.1	Are there any concerns about over-the-counter PM pain relievers?
0:53.0	Children are not immune to insomnia or other sleep disturbances.
0:57.0	How can parents help them?
0:59.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, sleeping better during the pandemic. In the people's pharmacy health headlines, a new study suggests that the number of people
1:20.0	who have contracted COVID-19 could be much higher than the official case counts.
1:25.0	The Johns Hopkins Coronovirus Resource Center has reported more than 106 million people
1:31.0	have contracted the virus globally.
1:33.0	27 million of them are in the US.
1:36.0	But researchers at the University of Texas South Western
1:40.0	think that the number could be up to three times higher. A model they developed with the help of a machine learning
1:46.1	algorithm estimates that more than 71 million Americans had been infected as of early February.
2:03.3	To make this calculation the algorithm counts the number of deaths and estimates based on an infection fatality rate of 0.66%. To check the accuracy of the algorithm, the researchers used blood tests that show how many individuals
2:09.4	in an area have been exposed to the coronavirus. The calculations track closely to the
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