Healthy sleep is basic and essential to health.   We all know that, yet sometimes our need for sleep is ignored or minimized.   When human beings don’t get enough sleep their overall health suffers, and here are some of the ways:

•   memory and creative thinking are impaired
•   insulin is dysregulated  
•   inflammation increases, which can lead to heart disease
•   irritability increases
•   risk of accidents increases as motor performance decreases

We can each choose to get healthy sleep by making enough time in our routine, and addressing any sleep difficulties we have.   Getting the sleep you need will pay off in improved mood, improved mental performance, and decreased risk for disease!

The Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine provides naturopathic health care for people with sleep disorders.   Other aspects of our mission are to improve public health by providing sleep education, and to increase naturopathic treatment options for sleep disorders by conducting research.