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You can reach Dr. Edlund at:
Center For Circadian Medicine
1241 S. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34239
Telephone: 941.365.4308
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Is there anything in your sleep specialty that can positively affect Ideopathic Hypersomnolence? This condition has severely affected my 20+ year career and limited my activities as am I perpetually exhausted even though I fall asleep easily. Nothing I have tried – herbal, medical or holistice has helped. I am enjoying your book, but I am not sure if it can be applied to my situation. Thank you for your time. James
Yes, there are many things you can do – if the diagnosis is correct. Many, many things make people sleepy – and must be checked to see where the effects come from.
Dr. Edlund — I will be writing an article this weekend for my newspaper, Salem-News.com on the “middle of the night sleeping pill” Intermezzo. How can I get a copy to you?
Please send it to dredlund@mac.com. Look forward to it.
Best,
Matthew
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december182011/fda-protection.php
Dear Dr Edlund, I listened to you on peoples pharmacy . I am going to be 64 and I am having terrible trouble sleeping more than 3 or 4 hours per night. I am taking a Jarrow natural product called Sleep Optimizer with Ltryptophan
Dear Ms. St. George,
Tryptophan is used by a lot of people – but pills are rarely panaceas. Please look at today’s article on “Rebound Insomnia.”
You are basically telling people to use Yog Nidra.
There are many “sleep like” states in wakefulness. Yoga nidra is one of many.
Dear Dr Edlund,
I represent Complete Wellbeing, a health and wellbeing magazine based in India and write on behalf of Editor-Publisher Manoj Khatri. We are coming up with a special issue on ‘The Need for rest/recreation’ and would like to use excerpts from your book The Power of Rest for the same.
We will give due credit to you and the publishing house for the same. In addition we will publish a photograph of you as the author of the book along with a snapshot of the book cover. We have excerpted from books several times in the past, including books by Donald Ardell, Ben Stein and Dr Wayne Dyer. I would love to send you samples if you like.
Please suggest how to take this forward. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Stay well,
Shiv Joshi
Deputy Editor
Complete Wellbeing
India
Dear Mr. Joshi,
That should be fine. Just let me know what sections are excerpted.
Best,
Matthew Edlund
Dear Dr Edlund,
Thank you so much for the permission. However, since I don’t yet have the book in my possession. I don’t know which sections we would like to use. However, usually what we do is take permission to excerpt about 5000 words from the book. Request you to do the same. Also, I would like to share with you pdfs of our previous excerpts so you get an idea. Kindly advice on how I can email it to you.
Stay well,
Shiv
Hello – I can best be contacted at 941 365 4308 anytime between 8 and 5 PM EST.
Thanks,
Matthew
Dear Ben,
Thanks for your note. Police have to deal with shift issues all the time, which I went into in much greater detail in “The Body Clock Advantage.” I hope some of the many articles in the blog archive will be of use, as well.
Trazodone is probably the most commonly prescribed sleep aid out there. It has problems, like every medication – with trazodone orthostatic hypotension, some drowsiness in people during the day time, but trazodone is cheap, often helpful with anxiety, and in high enough doses, a useful anti-depressant.
As for melatonin, the effects are complex, since its production is pulsatile, and the melatonin you take as a pill generally only lasts in your system an hour or two. About a third to 40% of people find melatonin helps them sleep.
Dear Robert,
In the south, morning light can generally be obtained from the best source – sunlight. Evening is a different matter. The small Philips blue light is liked by some, but I prefer the Sunbox junior myself for its size and portability.
Please consider having different books available – to read outside of the bed – that can aid falling asleep. They will vary from person to person, but rhythmic texts like poetry, or for many travel, historical fiction, or biographic texts will help.