Sleeping on Time

The prehistoric man used to eat as it was getting darker and go to bed early. He was required to get up much earlier than day break to prepare for hunting of animals who will be at the river to drink water before sunrise. For thousands of years this habit got encoded into the genetic signatures of humans.

Today with the invent of electricity we stay awake late at nights and keep on sleeping late mornings. But.......it is just not possible to go against our genetic formations and nature.

Scientists have discovered that the adrenals do a majority of their recharging or recovering during the hours of 10 P.M and 1 A.M. In addition your gallbladder dumps toxins during this same period. If you are awake, the toxins go back into the liver which then secondarily back up into your entire system and then from one sickness to the other, cause a never ending cycle of health disruption.

Prior to the widespread use of electricity, people would go to bed shortly after sundown and rise early, as most animals do, and which nature intended for humans as well.

Don't Change Your Bedtime. You should go to bed, and wake up, at the same times each day, even on the weekends. This will help your body to get into a sleep rhythm, making it easier to detoxin the system and produce beneficial hormones such as melatonin, seratonin etc. Changing your timings disrupts these normal activities while such long term system stress may damage vital organs or develop cancer.

The above explains why today we have such large number of kidney & liver failures as well as stones in gallbladders, kidneys, sleep disorders, insomnia etc. It is the malfunction and abuse of our body created by our own bad habits.

Let us try to cultivate the age old good habits of 'Early to bed, early to rise' amongst our children as well as adults. Children learn by example, if you start sleeping early, they are bound to follow you sooner or later.

Remember also to sleep in complete darkness or as close to darkness as possible, because when light hits the eyes, it disrupts the circadian rhythm of the pineal gland and production of melatonin and seratonin. These beneficial hormones, which are secreted by the pineal gland in the brain, play an important role in the body's sleep cycle. They also influence the secretion of estrogen which in turn affects the risk of breast cancer both in women and men.

Courtesy: Amardeep Hari