Sleep Deprivation and the Profound Effects on Your Well-being

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sleep deprivation has profound effects on your well-being in this video would explain those effects and then what to do about it it can increase your risk of diabetes it can increase insulin resistance which comes before diabetes increase your blood pressure it can cause a heart attack directly it can make you fat it affects your mood puts you in a state of depression anxiety worry it can increase your risk of getting a stroke it can make you more susceptible to injury in getting in an accident it also decreases your attention your focus and your memory and it severely affects your mental state and even your vision other than that it won’t affect any other part of the body and you have nothing to worry about but what is the actual root cause and why can’t people sleep and the number one thing behind having a sleep problem is being in flight or fight mode okay being in the flutter fight is like being chased by a tiger you’re gonna have adrenaline go up you’re gonna of cortisol go up your body is prepared for some emergency or sudden survival action as in flight run away or stand there and fight try to sleep if you’re running away from something or you’re fighting something now this mechanism is part of something called the sympathetic nervous system and by itself it’s really just sending signals to certain muscles and glands which actually have the ability to contract hormones and it’ll affect the muscle called the diaphragm that affects your breathing so the actual reason why you can’t sleep has to do with increase muscle tone so there’s certain muscles in your body that will not let go they will not relax if your diaphragm is being activated it’s going to affect your breathing you’re gonna be holding your breath you’re not gonna have a relaxed breath this is why control breathing actually can help you sleep as well but the point you need to know there are certain muscles on your body that are in a state of tightness and that tension just won’t let you drift off into a nice sleep but if you’re the sleeping problem I want you to do something right now now you’re probably watching this in the middle of the night because this is on sleep deprivation if so I want you to isolate what muscle or muscles have tension in them is it your traps is it your lower back is it the muscles on the front part of the chest is it the muscles in the abdomen through here is it the legs it isn’t your hip make mental no all right so now that you identified what muscles that are tight this is the technique and it’s a bit counterintuitive you want to locate the muscle tightness and then you want to stretch the opposite muscle okay now what does that mean well let’s just pretend that your trap muscles up here are tight you know you’re like this okay so your trap muscles raise your arm like that right so the opposing muscle would be the muscles that bring your arm down they’re called the last they’re underneath your arms I put a little chart down below but here’s what you want to do you just want to stretch the opposite muscle so in the example of the traps you’re gonna stretch the lats so you would take the top of the door or a bar at the gym and stretch okay you’re gonna stretch the opposite muscle what’s gonna happen it’s gonna melt these traps and the more that these muscles relax the better you’re gonna sleep this is why stretching before bed is so so important so that’s step one and you can check out the muscles down below and get some ideas on what type of stretching you need to do now the next thing to do relates to acupressure okay now you can use acupressure on other reasons why you have muscular tension - like cold injuries for example and I put some really good links down below of how to do acupressure how to handle old injuries and so you can start applying at your body because if every part of your body was in a total state of relaxation you would be able to sleep now you also have three electrolytes that are involved with the relaxation of muscles you have magnesium potassium and calcium so if you are low in electrolytes that can also affect the muscle relaxation alright guys so go ahead try this apply it comment down below and check out some of these videos on this screen I’ll see you next time you