Date:   5/22/2009 1:19:42 PM ( 15 y ago)
Hits:   13,527
URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1424118

I am a 24 year old male with an active interest in natural and alternative health. I have had a number of health issues arise over the past 3 years for which I have done a decent amount of research in this field.
One issue that has exacerbated each of my other issues (candidiasis, muscle tissue damage), has been the insomnia which I have faced since I was a child. Since I could remember I have had to lie in bed for hours on end before I fell asleep.
Over the past 3 years, I have tried, I feel, just about every method for inducing sleep short of prescription medication, which although greatly distasteful to me, I was actually considering due to all the problems insomnia caused for me..
I had tried, and become dependent on (either chemically or psychologically) numerous supplemental sleep aides). Melatonin, 5-HTP, Valerian, Kava, Chamomile, Skulkap, Hops, Jarrow Seditol, Diphenyhramine hydrochloride, and Doxylamine succinate.
Unfortunately, I had also learned that if I ate a huge heal, right before bed, it would just about knock me out. This isn't the best. Sleeping on a full stomach does not provide a very restful sleep, and you wake up feeling like garbage.
Anyway, a few months ago, someone one curezone had made mention of a certain audio program that is intended to slow the brainwaves to a restful state, and put you to sleep.
I did some looking around. The program mentioned uses a technology which, apparently, was somewhat out of date. It used binural beats, a technology that generally requires headphones, and is only moderately effective. More recently, a technology called isochronic tones has been developed. Isochronic tones are pulsating pitches. Different pitches, pulsated at varying frequencies can, it is claimed produce a variety of body response based on brainwave entrainment.
Our brains, from my understanding produce 20 waves per second while we are playing an active sport, closer to 10 when we are fairly relaxed, and about 1 per second when we are dead asleep. Certain programs which utilize isochronic tones start at around 15 cycles per second, and gradually slow them down to 1 CPS until, ideally, you are asleep, your brain having synchronized with the tones.
It is possible to download freeware isochronic tones from http://iso-tones.com/tones.html.
Apparently, different frequencies, are associated with fairly specific, and significant bodily responses, (such as adrenaline release, and even DNA repair); I have not concluded as to the efficacy of some of these tones though.
I have, however, purchased a program called SleepTracks, developed by Yan Muckle. There were a few product comparisons on the internet which seemed to lean in favor of this program over others that utilized isochronic tones. I scoured the internet trying to find blog information on this product before I purchased, and just about everyone said THIS STUFF WORKS. So I bought it. Sleeptracks comes with both a optimal sleep DVD series and numerous tracks: Fall Asleep, Power Nap, Whole night (loop it on a CD player), and best of all, Insomnia buster, a 25 minute track you listen to once during any time of the day. This track Mr. Muckle claims, if listened to for a few months, will help to permanently train your brain to fall asleep. He mentions, however, that with some people (like me) the tracks work much quicker than that. Within two days of starting the tracks I was able to completely give up all sedatives, and stop eating my midnight knockout meal. I have been sleeping like a baby for a month now with only two nights excepted ( and that was my fault).
I'm not saying that only SleepTracks works, there are a few other programs out there that use the isochronic tones. View http://insomnia-natural-sleep-aid-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/review-of-sleep...
But use isochronic tones.
One more thing my body appears to produce insufficient melatonin and to exhibit the symptoms of someone with a delayed circadian rhythm. While I believe a great part of my recent success has been due to the isochronic tones, I made one other lifestyle change right around the same time as I began using the tones, which was recommended in an article claiming that much insomnia is actually the result of blood Sugar imbalances and adrenal malfunction. Although some of you who have studied Harvey Diamond's method of food combining and eating schedule will recognize the distinct advantages many people experience when they either avoid breakfast altogether, or eat, at the most, some fresh fruit, I believe there is a case that certain people do indeed need to eat some protein by 10:30 AM for the sake of stabilizing their blood sugar. I believe the Diamonds are indeed right that our body is best suited for digestion during the hours of 12-8 PM, and that in terms of nutrition, the actual nutrients in the foods we eat won't be available to the cells until the next day anyway (and therefore it is not necessary to eat a breakfast for the sake of having available nutrients for the daytime), I do believe that our bodies do indeed benefit from an early supply of protein (to many carbs in the morning seem stressful on the adrenals). The article can be found at the following URL. http://www.nutritionalwellness.com/archives/2007/may/05_insomnia.php.
9
(Insomnia and Blood Sugar Imbalances)

Rest in Peace

Z
 

<< Return to the standard message view

fetched in 0.03 sec, referred by http://www.curezone.org/forums/fmp.asp?i=1424118