Dr. Breus: when I work with Rosie O'Donnell of the television show "The View", they also had obstructive sleep apnea. We talked about it on national television with her, and she stopped breathing during sleep over two hundred and fifty times in a night.
Kevin: Wow! Then, as you know, that it happening? You do not know that it happened!
Dr. Breus: You have no idea. And that is what's so scary about this situation with sleeping. It's You wake up and you do not feel so hot, but you have no idea what was going on on.
Kevin: Right.
Dr. Breus: Also, there are several possibilities to this one. Sometimes it goes for a formal investigation sleep. Sometimes it's even simpler than that. Sometimes it's just asking your bed partner "Hey, you heard me snore?" or "Have you heard me stop breathing in my sleep?", or anything like that. Since again which can be a really big factor. But all these different things - whether it is a sleep disorder or disturbed sleep - cause sleep deprivation.
Kevin: Yeah.
Dr. Breus: and that is the real big kicker here. It is not necessarily stop breathing during sleep that is not so great for you, even though, believe me, with low oxygen levels is not good. It can lead to stroke and heart attack and things like that.
Kevin: Mm hmm.
Dr. Breus: But what happens is this - your brain says "Holy cow, there is no oxygen." And it inspires you. And it is like an alarm clock goes off all night long.
Kevin: Two hundred times.
Dr. Breus: [all] five or ten minutes.
Kevin: Yeah.
Dr. Breus: I mean, think about it. When an alarm went every five minutes all night long, how would you feel the next morning?
Kevin: [Laughter] Terrible.
Dr. Breus: True, you feel pretty crappy.
Kevin: Yeah.
Dr. Breus: Well, every time you do - either insomnia or sleep apnea or restless life syndrome or what I call disturbed sleep - sleep deprivation causes. And sleep deprivation affects different areas. The first area is that it is cognitive or thinking in the creative process. You know, when we are at work, or we are at home, or we try to solve or deal with new solutions, we have a real big problem if we are sleepy to do so. You know what I say?
Kevin: I am quite sure there are a lot of callers on the line now have experienced that.
Dr. Breus: Yes. There is no question. Another major area is the reaction time. So, how fast we react to external stimulants?
Kevin: Mm hmm.
Dr. Breus: proves to be an important factor of sleep deprivation. So what does this mean? Driving a car, big factor. Here is a great example - Daylights Saving Time. We all just experienced spring forward aspect. What we lose - about one hour's sleep -
Kevin: Right. Dr. Breus : Well, Did you know that two days after Daylights Saving Time is the number one and two days for car accidents?
Kevin: Get out of here. That's incredible.
Dr. Breus: Yeah.
Kevin: Hmm.
Dr. Breus: And this is from losing one hour sleep. Now do you think: "Oh yes, what I lose one hour. It is not that a great deal.." The truth is, it proves to be much graer, because we are a nation deprived of sleep. The average individual gets about 6.9 hours sleep per night. But what we found when we really see that a little closer (lead that what they say) it is about 6.9 hours that you see now, seven hours of sleep. This is not so bad.
Kevin: Mm hmm.
Dr. Breus: if we can actually study in the laboratory, it turns out they are closer to 5.9 hours sleep.
Kevin: Really? And the difference is ...
Dr. Breus: About one hour in the value of sleep, and then, when you talk about people who are getting six hours sleep in the value of seven verses, which is almost a full sleep cycle towards the end the night, you can tremendous amount to do with memory, reaction time, creativity, the name it.
Kevin: Yes. Well, without getting into too much detail, you can go into a sleep cycle?
Dr. Breus: Sure. But what happens when you sleep in a cycle? Firstly, the people know that sleep is not only an on-off switch. It does not. It is not just walk into a room, turn off the light and boom you fall asleep. It is more like dragging your feet slowly from the gas
Kevin: Yeah.
Dr. Breus: Several things must be released and several things must occur in order for switching to happen. But when [you are], your body does settle and rest enough to fall asleep, that's when things begin to interesting. So we sleep in several different ways, but primarily by brainwaves, or what we call EEG. Now, people have probably seen it on you know, "[Grey's] anatomy, and you know," ER ", says the rule, we see the line flipping on the screen,
Kevin: Mm hmm.
Dr. Breus: Well, there are various forms of wave that we can see that will tell us which stages of sleep people are in. And that has to do, how quickly information moves in your brain. So right when you close your eyes, you have alpha wave, which is a quiet, kind bio-feedback situation where you just relax somewhere from seven to nine [Hertz], seven to nine cycles per second move out of your brain and forth. Then you move into the Stage One sleep. Two and Stage sleep. Now, Phase One and Phase Two sleeping kind of hard to tell apart. There are a few different landmarks, and we do not have to all features. But basically, Stage Two sleep takes almost fifty percent of your night when Kevin adult.
: Okay.
Dr. Breus: But as a child, they are only about twenty percent of your night. And like a child, he [laughs] almost does not represent any of your night.
Kevin: Okay.
Dr. Breus: Also, if I have a baby, and I Hook him up to an EEG, it is almost all deep sleep, we as adults are happy if we eighteen to twenty percent of [the night]
Kevin: Okay.
Dr. Breus: and this is the wake-up-and-feel-great sleep. This is the "Wow! Feel me. I feel refreshed. I feel ready to make the day" sleep.
Kevin: Okay.
Dr. Breus: Okay. Babies also have a lot of little REM graeren Sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep. Well, many people say: "Well, Michael, is not that the sleep in which you dream?". Well, yes and no. They have a graere [obesity] to dream during the REM sleep. But you can actually dream in every phase of sleep, believe it or not. Most people do not know. And the way you can prove that to yourself, if you ever fall asleep on the couch, and you have a dream, you know that you probably want a long sleep. The average person, he takes them eighty-one hundred and twenty minutes to reach REM sleep.
Kevin: Well, okay.
Dr. Breus: , so it turns out should mean that a fairly large difference. So, once more, it is not necessary that you only have to dream during REM sleep. You have a greater tendency to dream, then, but you can dream during any stage of sleep.
Kevin: Okay.
Dr. Breus: Let's get back to some of the facts of sleep,
Kevin: Sure.
Dr. Breus: provision on health. It also affects how we heal. One of the things we know is that research studies shown here, hospitals show that individuals, better sleep in the hospital actually heal better. We know that people lose more weight if they are not deprived of sleep and when they ... go into the specifics of this in a small while.
Kevin: Mm hmm.
Dr. Breus: We know that we defend against diseases. It was a fantastic study, which showed that people, the flu shot actually find that they are less effective when they are sleepy. I mean, think about it. Think of all the people who go out and flu shots. And if they are deprived of sleep, they do nothing good. You know what I mean? Depression is a very different factor. One of the things that we are now starting to learn that individuals are deprived of sleep graere have a tendency to depression. And people have a genetic tendency toward depression, they may kick off in bed, just like being asleep deprived.
Kevin: Okay.
Dr. Breus: It's pretty serious things. If we just women in general There are some pretty impressive statistics here. Seventy-five percent of menopausal women experience hot flashes, in order. Hot flashes will have an impact on your sleep. Forty percent of menopausal women have sleep problems caused by hot flashes. So what we are talking now, we are talking of about thirty-five percent of all women with menopause sleep disturbed. And all women go through menopause.
Kevin: Wow.
Dr. Breus: Also, this is a fairly huge part of the population does not have sleep problems, only the life hormonal changes.
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Kevin Gianni the host of "Renegade Health Show" - a fun and informative daily health show that is changing the perception of health across the world. His is an internationally known health advocate, author, and film consultant. He has helped thousands and thousands of people in over 21 countries though online health teleseminars about abundance, optimum health and longevity. He is also the creator and co-author of "The Busy Person's Fitness Solution"
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