 Circadian Rhythm "Personal Internal Body Clock Sleep Research" and Air Mattress information |
| Sleep science study has revolutionized what researchers have learned about the different sleep stages a person goes through every night and has proven that the more REM deep sleep dream cycle hours you get the more restful you feel during the day - and nothing compares to an air mattress for those precious deep sleep stages. |
| Circadian Rhythm is important in many areas of life. It's what makes working night shift so difficult and debilitating. People who suffer from delayed or advanced sleep phase syndrome are well aware of the havoc circadian rhythm cycles can cause. Another sleep disorder that involved the circadian rhythm is seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.). |
| With spring here, can summer be far behind? And, along with summer, come plans for summer vacation. If you are contemplating any long distance travel, from one side of the country to the other, or across the ocean, your circadian rhythm may intervene to make life a bit miserable for you. |
| Jet lag is caused when someone travels across several Time Zones quickly, as in a jet. Suddenly night and day are reversed, and your body's rhythm just isn't ready to cope with it. For several days, you may feel tired, disoriented and generally unwell. Your stomach is upset, your muscles may ache, and you find it impossible to sleep. An adjustable firmness air mattress could help. |
| Ongoing research into circadian rhythm and the biological clock has produced much that is new over the past four years. In May of 1998, the Aerospace Medical Association presented medical guidelines for airline travel. Although they were intended for people with illnesses and disorders, much of it pertained to everyone. Our adjustable firmness air bed mattress with viscous memory foam padding could be the answer to your sleep problems. |
| In these guidelines, Dr. Russell B. Rayman, executive vice president of the Association, stated: "It can start with anxiety about the trip, walking through the airport, finding the gate. "During the flight itself, there is the impact of the changing barometric pressure in the plane, the lower oxygen level, crowding and confinement in the seat, the vibration and noise of the cabin and jet lag and fatigue. "You put all of this together and even normal people are affected," Rayman said. "There is no rigid approach to these problems." |
 Sleep starts to deteriorate during middle age, not old age, as formerly
believed. This is due to changes in the biological clock and means middle aged
people become less able to work shifts or handle jet lag. The air mattress
allows you to enter a deeper rem sleep cycle faster and stay there
longer for maximum body and brain refreshing sleep. |
| In August 1998, the Dartmouth Medical School discovered new clues to what makes
cells tick.
"Biological clocks are the cellular basis of the commonly known circadian
rhythms that determine many of our body's functions, including when we go to
sleep and wake up. Slow resetting by the clock is the underlying cause of jet
lag, and clock malfunction has been linked to seasonal affective disorder and
various sleep and mental disorders," explain researchers Jay Dunlap, PhD,
professor of biochemistry, and Jennifer Loros, PhD, associate professor of
biochemistry.
They discovered that the two proteins known to play a role in light regulation are also essential to the circadian clock. They also discovered that all circadian clocks share common characteristics including their 24-hour light-dark cycle. |
| In November 1998, researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
discovered a new light-sensitive pigment in the eye, the skin and part of the
brain responsible for the body's internal clock. Their work could lead to finding
better treatment for depression and jet lag as well as ways to improve working
conditions for those on night shift. Many of our customers on night shifts report sleeping on an adjustable air mattress in a darkened room during the day has been a great improvement in the way they feel when awake. |
| In April of 2001, a news release from Howard Hughes Medical Institute reported that, by studying mice whose brains contain a composite of neurons that produce normal and longer-than-normal circadian rhythms, researchers are beginning to understand how neurons synchronize their oscillatory behavior to control the body’s 24-hour, internal clock. |
| This is taking research into a new direction that explores how brain cells in different regions of the brain work together to produce certain behavioral patterns. Most biological clocks have 24 hour cycles that govern when we sleep and when we are awake. This same rhythm also exists in other animals and even in plants. An air mattress with visco memory foam helps restless sleepers to relax and stay in the beneficial REM DREAM SLEEP STAGES longer. |
| Some people, however, have clocks that operate on a different cycle, making it difficult for them to get along in a 24 hour world. It's hoped that this new research will find a treatment and possibly even a cure for unusual circadian rhythm patterns. |
| Wild mice were genetically engineered for this research by the introduction of a mutant "clock" gene. The mice then had a circadian rhythm of 27 to 29 hours. Additional studies will be needed to determine the details of how the mutant gene alters the mice, but researcher Takahashi stated that this new strategy represents an important future direction for understanding the physiological organization of circadian rhythms. |
 How do circadian rhythms effect sleep? Learn how your body's 'PERSONAL SLEEP CLOCK' affects your life and how sleeping patterns can be helped by the air mattress comfort and support so you can understand how to 'RESET YOUR SLEEP CYCLES': |
| Circadian rhythms are regular changes in mental and physical characteristics
that occur in the course of a day (circadian is Latin for "around a day"). Most
circadian rhythms are controlled by the body's biological "clock."
This clock, called the suprachiasmatic nucleus or SCN, is actually a pair of pinhead-sized brain structures that together contain about 20,000 neurons. The SCN rests in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, just above the point where the optic nerves cross. Light that reaches photoreceptors in the retina (a tissue at the back of the eye) creates signals that travel along the optic nerve to the SCN. |
| Signals from the SCN travel to several brain regions, including the pineal
gland, which responds to light-induced signals by switching off production of
the hormone melatonin. The body's level of melatonin normally increases after
darkness falls, making people feel drowsy.
The SCN also governs functions that are synchronized with the sleep/wake cycle, including body temperature, hormone secretion, urine production, and changes in blood pressure. |
| By depriving people of light and other external time cues, scientists have
learned that most people's biological clocks work on a 25-hour cycle rather than
a 24-hour one.
But because sunlight or other bright lights can reset the SCN, our biological cycles normally follow the 24-hour cycle of the sun, rather than our innate cycle. Circadian rhythms can be affected to some degree by almost any kind of external time cue, such as the beeping of your alarm clock, the clatter of a garbage truck, or the timing of your meals. Scientists call external time cues zeitgebers (German for "time givers"). No other bed besides an air mattress helps so much to adjust your circadian body clock sleep cycles for deeper, more restful sleep periods. |
| When travelers pass from one time zone to another, they suffer from disrupted circadian rhythms, an uncomfortable feeling known as jet lag. For instance, if you travel from California to New York, you "lose" 3 hours according to your body's clock. You will feel tired when the alarm rings at 8 a.m. the next morning because, according to your body's clock, it is still 5 a.m. It usually takes several days for your body's cycles to adjust to the new time. |
| To reduce the effects of jet lag, some doctors try to manipulate the biological clock with a technique called light therapy. They expose people to special lights, many times brighter than ordinary household light, for several hours near the time the subjects want to wake up. This helps them reset their biological clocks and adjust to a new time zone. |
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Symptoms much like jet lag are common in people who work nights or who perform
shift work. Because these people's work schedules are at odds with powerful
sleep-regulating cues like sunlight, they often become uncontrollably drowsy
during work, and they may suffer insomnia or other problems when they try to
sleep. Shift workers have an increased risk of heart problems, digestive
disturbances, and emotional and mental problems, all of which may be related to
their sleeping problems.
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| The number and severity of workplace accidents also
tend to increase during the night shift. Major industrial accidents attributed
partly to errors made by fatigued night-shift workers include the Exxon Valdez
oil spill and the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents.
People who suffer from sleep disorders like insomnia often fall asleep faster and into the deeper restful REM sleep stages longer on an adjustable air mattress. Simply let your body's natural HEAT AND WEIGHT cause the viscous celled memory foam topper to "COPY YOUR PERSONAL BODY SHAPE AS YOU MOVE DURING THE NIGHT". One study also found that medical interns working on the night shift are twice as likely as others to misinterpret hospital test records, which could endanger their patients. It may be possible to reduce shift-related fatigue by using bright lights in the workplace, minimizing shift changes, and taking scheduled naps. |
| Many people with total blindness experience life-long sleeping problems because
their retinas are unable to detect light. These people have a kind of permanent
jet lag and periodic insomnia because their circadian rhythms follow their
innate cycle rather than a 24-hour one.
Daily supplements of melatonin may improve nighttime sleep for such patients. However, since the high doses of melatonin found in most supplements can build up in the body, long-term use of this substance may create new problems. Because the potential side effects of melatonin supplements are still largely unknown, most experts discourage melatonin use by the general public. Make sure you save the most on your memory foam padded air bed mattress investment with our MAGICLOUD BRAND ADJUSTABLE AIR BED MATTRESS. Why settle for less quality in a cheaply made air mattress than you can get with our Super-Quality Factory Direct Shipped Price air mattress and "HAVE A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP". |
