Posted by tealady on September 19, 2003, at 19:50:30
In reply to Re: update (insomnia) » tealady, posted by Larry Hoover on September 19, 2003, at 9:54:37
>There is not going to be an oxygen shortage from being in a closed room, unless it's literally hermetically sealed.
Hmm, I would have thought so too, but I do find it is "stuffy" sometimes lately when I awake and "feels" like I can't get enough oxygen.
In crowded offices, restaurants etc, I used to get a feeling of not enough oxygen too and had to go to stair wells or feel faint or like I couldn't breathe. Others could see it..I'd look like I was going to faint.... so just thought there MAY be something in it, at least for me.
I'd be fine on floors with not many people working on them...unless they decided to use more recirculated air some days
Always thought air conditioned buildings should have a oxygen or fresh air minimum limit per person..like windows per worker in the factory act in England yonks ago.
For some reason, I think I need more oxygen? If that is what it is?
Probably thyroid related, or lungs
Docs said it was bronchial asthma, or bronchitis or asthma..but only minimal response to asthma meds
> "sleep apnea or breath holding can happen when you don't get enough sleep"
> ..a lack of oxygen can reduce growth hormone (and estrogen in women, testosterone in men) "The Goddess Diet" p151..and this changes your energy balance and insulin sensitivity creating a change in your brain's response to serotonin"
Funny, I've always attributed the sleep deficit to the apnea, not the other way around.me too, guess it's a mistake
>The link to sex hormones is sound, however.
I added the testosterone bit..found the reference when searchingAgain, I don't think it arises from oxygen starvation, but instead, from changes in brain wave activity associated with wakefulness. The brain just doesn't get to the right stages in the process, because it is constantly interrupted.
Strongly agree on the last bit!
IN the next sentence p152, she says "In a study of the relationship between lowered sympathetic nerve activity and obesity, researchers found that we become more sensitive to essential fatty acids when our serotonin levels drop and that makes you not only fat but depressed."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9769705&dopt=Abstract
The MONA LISA hypothesisI wionder what "sensitive to EFA means"...pimples?
Hugs, Jan
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