In today’s nonstop world, late nights and early mornings have become the norm. We all want to get more done each day, do better at work, spend more time with our families, and make more money. But all that hard work can wreak havoc on our bodies. You know that 8 hours of sleep is ideal. The benefits of adequate rest have been proven time and again: ● Improves memory ● Boosts creativity ● Strengthens immune system ● Reduces stress ● Helps weight loss ● Helps the body heal itself ● Sharpens attention ● Supports brain function ● Extends lifespan Learn more about sleep Wellness

1. Sleep Wellness
By. Dr. Sheila McKenzie,
PhD, IMD, DHS, OM

2. Relationship of sleepless and Cortisol.
What’s Cortisol?
When we feel stressed our brain produces Cortisol to help us stay alert and give us
energy so we can deal with the stressful situations quickly and easily.
Cortisol is designed to help us in one time stressful situations like being confronted
by a bear in the woods.
The extra cortisol ramps up our adrenaline and gives us the energy and mental
clarity to make a quick decision to fight or run for our life.
Once the stressful situation is over, our cortisol drops and we feel fine..

3. Cortisol
Levels
Today we’re constantly under stress and so our brain keeps
producing more and more cortisol but we can’t burn it off
quickly enough to feel better by the end of the day.
Our bodies aren’t designed to handle so much stress and
when we don’t burn off the extra cortisol it stays in our
body and our mind becomes over active – filled with all
kinds of thoughts.
The next day we have more stress and we end up
producing and storing even more cortisol which prevents
us from falling asleep and makes us feel more anxious and
more stressed.

4. Results of
High
Cortisol
Levels
High cortisol level leads to distress:
- Doubts and Fears
- Anxiety, warring
- Overactive mind
- Feeling overwhelm
Brain feeling as if on fire and foggy upon rising

5. What is
inflammation?

6. What Should
Happen
When You
Go To Sleep?
when we go to sleep at night our body is
supposed to have high levels of sleep
hormones which are Melatonin and
GABA and low levels of Cortisol.
When we have too much Cortisol it
prevents our brain from producing
enough of the natural sleep hormones,
melatonin and GABA.
As a result, we feel anxious,
overwhelmed, worried and instead of
falling asleep we lie there wide awake
thinking of all kinds of things.

7. Does Sleep Aids Work?
Taking more Melatonin or GABA to help us sleep won't work. It may help in the beginning but after a
while taking more melatonin and GABA to compensate will just make us feel groggy and doesn’t work
because we’ve got too much cortisol which is working against the Melatonin and GABA.
Sleep medication and over the counter sleep aids don’t solve the problem which is high cortisol.
The solution is to reduce our cortisol so we fall asleep and stay asleep.
When we reduce our Cortisol we no longer experience those worry thoughts or negative thoughts that
keep us up at night.

8. Brain Body Toxic Burden
may affect Sleep
• Health challenges are to be viewed by
most people as a "disease' that requires
aggressive suppressive treatments.
• The concept of traditional natural
Medicine is that ill-health is the
ineffective elimination of cellular toxins
and compromised immune systems. As
toxins accumulate, they block the
cellular ability to receive oxygen,
nourishment, energy and eliminate
waste.

9. Sleeping Your Way to
Wellness Book.
• Our natural biological sleep cycle is 7 to 8 hours.
During this we go through a complete cleanse
and while we're sleeping the body flushes out
toxins and the mind moves short term memories
and clears out unwanted memories.
• Nutrition and detoxification suggestion in “ Sleeping
Your Way to Wellness”

10. Body toxic
Burden

11. inflammatory
response it
essential to
our health and
survival.
We talk a lot about the dangers
associated with inflammation. But the
body’s inflammatory response is also
essential to our health and survival.
Problems with inflammation occur
when this natural, protective
response happens too often, or at the
wrong times.

12. Chronic Inflammation Links
• Chronic inflammation is also linked to the development of
heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer—the major
chronic and life-threatening diseases of our time.
• With chronic inflammation, the body’s immune system is in
perpetual fight mode, activating disease-fighting cells that
have no external threat to fend off. Over time, these fighter
cells can attack, wear down, and cause damage to healthy
cells, tissues, organs, and systems throughout the body,
leading to chronic illness.

13. Not feeling your best
• The inflammation slows down
communication between neurons. This
is what causes you to feel foggy, dull,
and slow. Brain inflammation is
serious because it means nerve cells
in the brain are dying. In other
words, brain inflammation is causing
your brain to atrophy.y and age too
fast

14. Research and
Inflammation
• Research has found evidence
that inflammation is responsible
for sleep regulation, and those
with greater inflammation have
disturbed sleep. This is also the
reason why sleep is difficult
during illness and infection.
Those with sleep disorders have
been found to have a higher level
of inflammation.

15. Triggers
• What triggers
excessive,
unhealthful, chronic
inflammation? Poor
diet, environmental
toxins, stress. And, as
research
shows, poor sleep is
a contributor to
inflammation.
•

16. Too little sleep
triggers
inflammation. So
does too much
sleep.
• Scientists still have a lot to learn
about the specifics of the
relationship between sleep and
inflammation. But there’s already
a strong body of research
showing that lack of sleep raises
levels of inflammation in the
body. Laboratory studies have
tested acute, prolonged sleep
deprivation—conditions under
which sleep is restricted for 24
hours or more—and found this
severe degree of sleep loss
increases inflammation activity in
the body.

17. • To heal your cells, muscles,
joints and spines, you must
employ dynamic crystal healing
rituals such as sleeping on SleepM
crystal bed and pillow
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inflammatory processes,

18. Correct Pillow
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properly support the head,
and helps to maintain the
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spine.

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20. • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548567/?utm_source=mp-
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21. Sleep better! Live better!