A workbook packed with simple, inexpensive suggestions for exploiting our surroundings to support our most environmentally sensitive hormones.Fatigue is one of the most debilitating symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. The wrong bedroom surroundings can contribute to this fatigue by interfering with the melatonin hormone responsible for ensuring a good quality sleep. That interference confuses and mixes up the sleep stages creating the poor quality sleep that shows itself as fatigue. With a few adjustments most bedrooms can be transformed into rooms more conducive to good sleep reducing the fatigue and the severity of several other symptoms.
What can I do?
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Keep the bedroom dark - using red light where necessary
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Check for distortions to the earth's magnetic field
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Turn off wireless equipment before bed
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Unplug electrical equipment before bed
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Avoid penetrating chemicals in personal care products
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Eliminate noise entry and its transfer between hard surfaces
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Books
The Sleep-Powered Wellness Workbook: Better Bedrooms for Better Sleep, by Angela Hobbs
Hobbs guides the reader through the 24 hour hormone rhythm revealing the many ways that a person's surroundings can be used to support it. A workbook packed with simple, inexpensive suggestions for exploiting our surroundings to support our most environmentally sensitive hormones.
Sleep-Powered Wellness: Better Bedrooms for Turbocharged Zzzz's, by Angela Hobbs
Hobbs discusses the impact that noise, wireless, light, electricity, chemicals and air pollutants can have on the hormones responsible for sleep and alertness, and ultimately on many common symptoms of ill health.