{"id":2457,"date":"2020-03-30T04:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essn.us\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2020-03-30T04:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:24:38","slug":"sleep-rx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Rx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been very sleepy right around dinner time between 5 and 7 pm. It&#8217;d be better to have a power nap than to eat, perhaps. Family time deters that nap though. It makes it difficult to sleep when it&#8217;s needed most. Like tonight after 12 am. Occasionally Melatonin tablets can help. Tonight it&#8217;s a battle, however.<br><em>&#8220;Melatonin is a hormone that regulates the sleep\u2013wake cycle. It is  [&#8230;] released by the pineal gland. As a supplement, it is often  used for the short-term treatment of trouble sleeping such as from jet  lag or shift work&#8221;<\/em> (Wikipedia, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My daughter works a 3-11 shift and sometimes a double. The grands tend to fall asleep right before she comes to get &#8217;em. The toddler has a nap during the day. That&#8217;s the most rambunctious one; a perfect opportunity to join in a napping session. Quality sleep prevents illnesses from taking hold according to peer-reviewed research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sleep Habits and Susceptibility to the Common Cold<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Cohen%20S%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=19139325\">Sheldon Cohen<\/a>, PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Doyle%20WJ%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=19139325\">William J. Doyle<\/a>, PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Alper%20CM%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=19139325\">Cuneyt M. Alper<\/a>, MD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Janicki-Deverts%20D%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=19139325\">Denise Janicki-Deverts<\/a>, PhD, and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Turner%20RB%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=19139325\">Ronald B. Turner<\/a>, MD<br>       https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2629403\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been very sleepy right around dinner time between 5 and 7 pm. It&#8217;d be better to have a power nap than to eat, perhaps. Family time deters that nap though. It makes it difficult to sleep when it&#8217;s needed most. Like tonight after 12 am. Occasionally Melatonin tablets can help. Tonight it&#8217;s a&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-sleep-spa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}