Sleep to Save Your Life: The Complete Guide to Living Longer and Healthier Through Restorative Sleep - Softcover

Lombardo, Gerard T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060742542 ISBN 13: 9780060742546

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

We're supposed to spend one-third of our lives sleeping. But today a shortage of sleep—and of the right kind of sleep—is undermining our productivity, relationships, and health. Sleep problems can contribute to diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, depression, and diabetes, and they add stress to our already hectic lives. In Sleep to Save Your Life, noted sleep expert Gerard T. Lombardo, M.D., reveals the science behind these problems and what to do about them. As director of one of New York City's busiest sleep centers, Dr. Lombardo works with the sleep problems of executives, shift workers, women, children, and the elderly in "the city that never sleeps." He offers detailed strategies for getting the best treatment—and the best sleep—possible.

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Review

"An invaluable resource." -- Paul Ehrlich, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University School of Medicine; Coauthor,

"Readable and entertaining." -- Library Journal

"Readable and entertaining."--Library Journal

"Dr. Lombardo explains intricate, arcane medical science with engaging, often witty, style."--Mark Cullen, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program

"This latest book on the importance of sleep is a good read."--The Baltimore Sun

." . .tells you how to make the most of your slumber."--Detroit News

"An invaluable resource."--Paul Ehrlich, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University School of Medicine; Coauthor, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Your Child's Asthma and Allergy

Synopsis

"A guide to life-saving sleep, addressing the modern epidemic many of us unknowingly suffer from, and showing how to confront this new big health risk in order to live longer, healthier lives. We spend up to one-third of our lives sleeping or we should. Instead, we're the "Walking Weary." Millions stay up late, get up early, wake to tend children, wake with hot flashes, wake to worry. Sleep problems afflict nearly half of employed adults. Late-night Internet surfing, lack of exercise, and weekend sleep binging can hamper children's physical and mental growth. Elderly loved ones may suffer sleep disruption by too much napping and not enough activity. Is poor sleep making you sick? Many of us stop breathing hundreds of times a night, in a condition called sleep apnea, which can contribute to heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and depression. If you have these "daytime problems," you may have an undiagnosed "nighttime problem." "Sleep to Save Your Life" comes to the rescue. Sleep expert Gerard T. Lombardo, M.D., explains how your genes, environment, job, habits, and physiology may be hampering your sleep and what you can do at home and in treatment to get the restorative sleep you need to feel better, perform better, look better, live healthier, and live longer.

It's filled with self-assessments, strategies, charts, and techniques Dr. Lombardo has used successfully with thousands of patients. If you're one of the "Walking Weary" - you wake up tired - this book can help identify an undiagnosed sleep problem.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060742542
• ISBN 13: 9780060742546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320