The Fourth of July is an exciting time with friends and family to celebrate our independence. For some people, this is a time for parades, cookouts, drinking, fireworks, and gatherings. While this can be an exciting time, there are many factors that can affect the way we sleep. Below is a description as to how these exciting times can challenge a quality night sleep and how to help us keep it on track.
Parades
Parades are full of floats, cars, trucks, and dancers waving and celebrating. However, being at a parade also involves standing in the sun for hours at a time and watching everything going by. This extra time in the sun allows the retina to recognize it is daytime for longer than usual which prevents melatonin from being naturally distributed in the body.
Another factor of parades is the time the parades occur. If your sleep schedule doesn’t follow the times of the parade, you are training your body to wake up earlier than what it is used to. Throwing off your sleep schedule can harm the circadian rhythm in your body by making it shift forward in time which is called a phase advance. Having a consistent schedule is an important contribution in receiving seven to nine hours of sleep each night. A consistent sleep schedule has many benefits such as having an easier time falling asleep and more energy during the day. It ensures that an individual gets the correct amount of sleep each night and can align systems in your body that signal when it’s time to go to bed and when it’s time to wake up. A balanced and consistent sleep schedule provides benefits such as:
- Lower stress levels
- Better mood
- Maintaining a healthy weight
- Stronger immune system function
- Reduced risk of accidents and injuries
- Improved cognitive function
Cookouts
As you entire a cookout, the air is full of rich smells from the grill, people laughing and playing, and individuals gathering together. However, cookouts are also full of unhealthy foods and alcohol. Your body gets most of its energy from food. When you skip a meal or eat unhealthy meals, you are getting poor nutrition in your body which does not give you the energy you need which makes you feel tired during the day.
Cookouts also could include the consumption of caffeine and alcohol, which can affect your sleep. Caffeine consumption can make you fall asleep later, sleep less hours overall, and make your sleep feel less satisfying. It can also reduce the amount of deep, slow-wave sleep you get, which is a critical stage of sleep for feeling refreshed the next day. Caffeine affects the brain by blocking adenosine receptors. When caffeine blocks this, you remain alert and vigilant which is what can cause quality sleep disruption. Alcohol has sedative effects that can induce feelings of relaxation and sleepiness. However, after a person consumes alcohol, the liquid is absorbed into their bloodstream from the stomach and small intestine. Eventually, it gets metabolized, but this process is very slow so excess alcohol will continue to circulate throughout the body long after it is consumed. If you give your body enough time to metabolize the substance, it may reduce the negative effects during sleep.
Fireworks
At the end of the night, the sky is full of bright lights from a fireworks show. However, fireworks shows can be very loud when you are used to sleeping in the quiet. Sound is one of the biggest disruptors in a person’s sleep cycle. When entering into your sleep cycle, a loud noise can wake you up causing you to leave that sleep cycle and begin the process all over. When these patterns are not how they are supposed to be, it not only affects your sleep, but it can also affect other parts of your body such as:
- Blood pressure
- Body temperature
- Hormonal balance and secretion
- Digestion
- Metabolic balance
- Alertness and cognition
- Cell repair
- Immune system
- Musculoskeletal health
Getting back on track to quality sleep
This is an exciting time for celebration that shouldn’t be missed. So how do you have fun and enjoy the day while not putting yourself too far behind on your sleep? You can try a sleep aid. Relaxium Sleep uses a triple-action approach to better sleep: regulating your sleep cycle, relaxing your body and calming your mind. It regulates your sleep cycle by using ONLY the highest quality and proper levels of Melatonin (a drug-free hormone, but in this case, it is also free of the contaminants often found in low-quality melatonin). It relaxes your body with the use of magnesium (a mineral that immediately relaxes muscles throughout the body and promotes the release of mental and physical tension). It calms your mind with the combination of Ashwagandha (a plant extract), Valerest (a proprietary ingredient exclusive to Relaxium), and Passionflower (a herb that offers an anti-stress remedy that helps to combat everyday stress and helps to regulate neurotransmitters in the brain that control mood and sleep). With this triple-action approach, you can expect to experience:
- An easier time falling and staying asleep
- Deeper, more restful sleep
- Waking up feeling refreshed, energized and rejuvenated
- Better mood balance
- An enhanced immune system
- Better digestion
And so much more!
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To restful and healthy days ahead.
The Relaxium Team
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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