Comments on: Sleep Aware Series – Part 3: How Much Sleep do We Need?

By: Evita Ochel

Evita Ochel — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:35:13 +0000

Hi Josh

Thank you for the feedback!

When I hear that people cannot wake up in the morning, a few things have to be considered…. namely what time are we going to sleep at? If it is anything past 10pm, it can pose problems. Are we sleeping regularly with a routine or all over the place? Routines put the body on a more regular rhythmic clock.

When it comes to the winter, a lot of people are affected by the lack of sunlight and vitamin D. Are you taking a vitamin D supplement of at least 5,000IU? Lack of this hormone may play a role in disrupting so many other hormones in your body.

What is your diet like? Is is based on fast, processed foods, white grains, sugars, coffee or any other stimulants? All of this will play a role in how our body copes from day to day and hour to hour.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:30:09 +0000

Hi Evita, A really great series of posts you wrote here…
My biggest problem is that I can’t make my self wake up in the morning!
I have like 2 alarm clocks working for an hour and I don’t even hear them!
It became really frustrating! I can’t even wake up to work by myself, actually it’s the winter that kills me :)

By: Nano

Nano — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:43:22 +0000

Hi Evita..
thanks alot for the info.
u know what!! i used to sleep like 12 hourz a day,i dunno we used to stay up and sleep at 6 am nd wake up at 5 pm..and my body always down.. now am working and i sleep at 1 am and i wake at 8.. but still i need to sleep…
:(

By: Evita

Evita — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:56:28 +0000

@ VI – Hi Vi, you can find part 4 here:

http://evolvingwellness.com/posts/640/sleep-aware-series-part-4-what-can-hurt-or-help-our-sleep-quality/

I am so glad that the article was of use to you, thank you for letting me know.

By: Vi

Vi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:17:07 +0000

To whom it may concern where or when in part four? I am doing a speech or sleep derprivation and this really helped!! Whats funny how i came to do this speech somebody who barely gets 3 hours of sleep and doesn’t care said that topic over smoking and they were right! By the way its a persuavie speech

By: Evita

Evita — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:21:30 +0000

Hi Tom,

I am thrilled to hear that you are enjoying this series. I love sleep and have really paid attention to its importance since my teens (which is not typical for most young people I know) but I guess I was always drawn to how great I felt each morning when I woke up and to this day have pretty much kept a regular and routine sleep schedule and no coffee ever. Sure there were some nights that I stayed out much later than I would ever want to do now, but that is all part of life and fun too. The key is to make sure that really late nights are the exceptions and not the norm.

And yeah, sleep before midnight is really important. One of my biggest motivators for this series in fact is hearing many people around me talk about how little sleep they get, or how they can’t sleep or how irregular it is. All things that can really deter good health and wellness. So I want to spread the word and really help people to understand just how important sleep is and what a difference proper sleep makes in one’s quality of life :)

Thank you again for your feedback – I really appreciate it!

By: Tom Parker - Free Fitness Tips

Tom Parker - Free Fitness Tips — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:03:45 +0000

Hey Evita. As you probably know from my previous comments I’m really enjoying this blog post series. I knew that sleeping at night time was imortant but didn’t know getting in bed before 11pm had so many benefits. Thanks for the info.