Dr. Adam Fogelman

SLEEP is one of the 7 pillars to maintaining great health. It helps to:

🔥Boost the immune system so you get sick less often
🔥Regenerate your organs by stimulating lymph to remove waste/byproducts
🔥Lose weight by burning off unhealthy fat
🔥Lowers risk from serious health problems, like diabetes & heart disease
🔥Reduce stress & improve mood
🔥Increase mental clarity

As we get older, our health becomes more about maintenance and prevention, through discipline, routine and better choices.

One of the main factors when looking at sleep habits, is the 24-HOUR CLOCK. All the body’s organs regenerate within a 3-hour block of time.

If you’re waking up prematurely around the same time every night, look to the organ that’s supposed to regenerate within that 3-hour window. It could provide some clue as to why your sleep is off.

9-11pm: Adrenal glands
11-1am: Gallbladder
1-3am: Liver
3-5am: Lungs
5-7am: Large Intestine
7-9am: Stomach

Possible sleep issues reoccurring around the same time every evening, could be due to:

⛔️Nutritional deficiency
⛔️Specific emotion that the body is holding onto and causing stress,
⛔️Bone misalignment compressing on a nerve, decreasing the signals coming from the brain to the body
⛔️Stagnant lymphatic drainage from that specific organ
⛔️Blocked energy from a certain Acupuncture Meridian point

Our health is a reflection of how we choose to live. Here are some changes to make:

✅Keep the heat off at night. The colder your room is, the hotter your body gets, the more energy it releases.
✅Sleep naked; or with as little clothes as possible. Clothing impedes movement during sleep, makes your body hotter & decreases your ability to expel heat.
✅No screen time an hour before sleep. Blue light from electronics will trick your body into thinking it’s still daylight.
✅Finish eating food 2-3 hours before bedtime.
✅Journal, meditate, stretch or do light yoga before bedtime to relax your mind & lower stress.
✅If you have a child/children & they get up early in the morning, go to bed earlier.
✅Get blood work done to see if you are deficient in amino acids (tryptophan), neurotransmitters (GABA), minerals (magnesium) & hormones (melatonin).