Many of us also think that sleep is a passive, constant and unchanging process. Yet, what we don’t realize that sleep is in fact a very active state. Our bodies move frequently during the night, but what’s even more striking is that our brain activity is more varied than it is when we are awake. As we sleep our body goes through what is called a non-Rem and Rem sleep. (REM stands for the Rapid Eye Movement) Typically we begin our sleep cycle with a period of non-REM sleep, what is than followed by a very short period of REM sleep.
After a day like this, we go to bed, hoping for a better tomorrow. Most of us can leave our bad days behind; however, for an individual with Alzheimer’s disease these days go from bad to worse. The person with Alzheimer’s suffers daily, forgetting to remember, not of their own accord, but from this devastating
Before mental hospitals opened, a person with a mental illness was usually isolated from others and had to stay home, with the idea that rest and absolutely NO work would cure the mental illness. As the writer of this summary and before I read the article “The Yellow Wallpaper” I had never put much thought into the ideas and treatments of mental health in the 1800’s. So like many of you may experience from reading this summary I was surprised at the treatment someone with a mental health issue would face. There were very few hospitals that treated mental health issues and anyone suffering from mental illness was considered an outcast of the society. As a fellow spectator you will experience the transition from late 1800’s mental health treatment to the treatments we have available today.
These risk factors affect cellular function by slowing down the amount of oxygen and blood flow the cells are receiving. Weight gain causes the heart to work harder, trying to pump blood throughout the body. Consuming a diet containing fatty foods cause the arteries to become clogged. B. Assuming Joseph’s heart has stopped, what cellular processes and membrane functions are going to be affected by the loss of oxygen, blood glucose, and waste removal?
When food is eaten the body breaks down all the starches and sugars into glucose, which essentially fuels the cells in the body. Insulin carries the sugar from the blood into the cells. Glucose builds up in the blood instead of moving into the cells, and this leads to diabetes complications. The buildup of Glucose in the blood also can lead to serious problems with the eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys, and gums and teeth. The risk for being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes is higher for people who are older, obese, have family history of the disease and who do not exercise.
Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by the general inability to fall asleep, and stay asleep. The victims of Insomnia usually are usually stressed out in their daily lives, but not always (Wikipedia). “Insomnia can be grouped into primary and secondary, or comorbid, insomnia. Primary insomnia is a sleep disorder not attributable to a medical, psychiatric, or environmental cause. It is described as a complaint of prolonged sleep onset latency, disturbance of sleep maintenance, or the experience of non-refreshing sleep.
I would have thought that it’d be much easier to fall asleep once I got back home in my own bed, but it wasn’t. I haven’t been on a long airplane ride in a long time, so I forgot what was so bad about jet lag. It was so frustrating, so I just gave up and watched TV and stayed up on the laptop that whole night. It was as if my mind was tired, but my body wasn’t or vice versa. At the end of the 72 hours, my eyes felt heavy, it become hard to walk, I was crabby, mean and impatient, my body was weak, and I got a fever, but this happens almost every time I travel for a long period of time although this time was the worst.
They don’t eat right which may lead to Alzheimer’s down the road. They may drink heavily which doesn’t help brain cells. Kotler says smoking may help them stay focused. “The Perils of Higher Education” article states that college students choose poor habits which may cause difficulty to retain information by the habits students chose. One survey done on undergraduates and medical students at Stanford University finds that 80 percent of qualified students were sleep deprived.
The dangers of poor sleeping habits and obesity Americans live in a society that rewards bad sleep patterns. A person boasting about how little sleep they got last night is like earning a merit badge, as if to say “look how rich and full my life is, there is no time for me to sleep, definitely not boredom here.” In reality, very few people have anything worthwhile to do after 9:00 at night, unless they are working night shifts or attending to young children. Anyone outside these two situations who regularly stays up late is probably doing so because they don’t value sleep as a means to good health or they don’t understand how severe the consequences of poor sleep habits can be. Consequently the obesity epidemic prevails amongst those Americans. Obesity is caused by many factors, one of these consequences is one that people often overlook, poor sleeping habits.
The most important biological activity occurring in all humans and animal species is sleep. The average person will have spent a cumulative total of between 20 and 25 years asleep by 70 years of age. Sleep affects many of behavioral and physiological functions, such as memory, cognitive ability, immune function and hormone secretion. Sleep deprivation has been found to have numerous effects on both behavioral and physiological functioning. Moreover, the effects will be cumulative, so a mild reduction in sleep per night can be after a period of time, result in significant functional deficits.