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You may have read about my morning migraine attacks in the migraine lighting blog. After that happened I started researching sleep hygiene to see if better sleep could help manage the rest of my dizziness and migraine attacks. I found some very interesting sleep facts and implemented a number of strategies that helped improve my sleep in ways I hadn't expected. Check out the blog to get more information about sleep cycles and tips to improve your sleep.

Blog: Sleep Facts & Tips

Sleep helps with learning, memory, tissue healing, immune function, and regulation of normal body functions(2). Good sleep ensures that we can focus on our work, learn new things, commit them to memory, regulate our body at the cellular level and fight off infection(2).
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The amount and type of sleep we get has a significant influence on our day to day activities when we’re awake. Recommended sleep for adults ages 18-64 is 7-9 hours per night. For adults 65+, 7-8 hours per night is recommended(3).

5 Stages of Sleep: Stages 1-4 and Rapid Eye Movement(4)​
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It takes about 90-110 minutes to go through all 5 stages. This cycle repeats throughout your sleep. If you wake up in the middle of the cycle, you can feel groggy and unfocused for the rest of the day. There are now apps and alarms that track your sleep cycle to wake you up at just the right time in your sleep cycle.

Stage of Sleep Description

1 Very light sleep

2 Light sleep, less likely to be awakened

3 Deep sleep, feel very groggy if awakened

4 Deep sleep, very difficult to be awakened

5 REM Dreaming, irregular breathing, little to no muscle movement, very different from stages 1-4

See you next week!

Cheers,
Megan

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