Research shows during the night people in the past forty years get a full hour less sleep. The last ten years, for example, increased the amount of sleep for all students with an average half hours.

It is estimated people sleep about 90 percent of the time they should sleep (seven hours per night and a quarter instead of eight hours).

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It is estimated that almost one in three people suffers from insomnia. Usually this is temporary and a consequence of some special event. But sometimes they can indicate a more serious problem.

Let us start with the myth that everyone needs 8 hours sleep to say it is a good night's sleep. Sleep Research shows that this vary from person to person between four and eleven hours per night.

Approximately 10% of the population has enough to an average of 6.5 hours a night and about 15% required more than 9 hours.

Children usually have a little more sleep, while the elderly tend to be slightly less.

Geographical factors: people who live in the mountains sleep longer and those who live at sea need less time.

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Everyone has to suffer to get to sleep or sleeping well or has problems in the morning to load out of bed.
Often this has to do with an unusual or painful day event - a death, a quarrel, a setback or a happy event - with a very stressful occupation, or simply because there is literally something in the stomach after remaining a heavy meal before bedtime, or vice versa because of an empty stomach at bedtime.

Some women sleep less slightly around their monthly periods. And even after a long plane trip our biological clock is disrupted, temporary sleeping problems.

These sleep problems usually disappear after a few days spontaneously when the cause is lost or forgotten, we do not have to worry about. On the contrary, those who worry too much and gets agitated that sleep problem, risk is making things worse.

We speak only of insomnia when someone for no apparent reason for days (more than 3 weeks) suffer to sleep at night and wake up regularly, during the day stays reflected (one feels tired and irritable, difficulty concentrating, possibly headaches, etc.).

In such cases it is advisable to consult a doctor, and it might be necessary for a physical examination at a specialized sleep laboratory.

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• Insomnia is not a 'disease' in itself, but, just like fever, rather a symptom that something else is going on.
  Some diseases, like diabetes, asthma or other respiratory problems, heart rhythm disorders, rheumatism, etc., can be associated with insomnia.
  Sometimes insomnia can also indicate a psychiatric problem such as depression.
  
  In all cases there is very little sense to the sleep problem is to address the underlying cause but should be treated.
  
  
• Another possible cause of insomnia is called restless leg' syndrome: almost in bed one plagued by an unpleasant tingling sensation in the legs by which one can not remain silent.
  
  Up to 5% of the population. It is slightly more common in the elderly and during pregnancy.
  The exact cause is still unknown, but there are medicines which can keep this syndrome under control.
  
  
• Also, some drugs (such as certain anti-depressants, medicines for hay fever, high blood pressure, etc.), stimulants such as coffee and cola drinks, and alcohol can cause sleep problems.
  
  
• Finally also shift or night work or other circumstances that permanently disrupt our body clocks, may lead to chronic insomnia.

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As mentioned, the sleep pattern very individual: it has short-and long sleepers. The moment you go to bed and getting up can be slightly influenced.

You do not have to worry at all having a bad time asleep or awake long a few times.

If you slept a little less, do not catch a few hours more sleep the next day. The body gets lost hours by himself in more and longer periods of deep sleep to find themselves.

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Melatonin is a natural substance having a positive impact in and sleep through the heart and blood vessels, during the transition, aging and many other processes.
Melatonin is a substance which is produced by the pineal gland. This material may offer many benefits for human health. The substance is now used by many people as a natural support for healthy sleep. Moreover, this substance has a lot of benefits related to health. Melatonin includes an anti-oxidant and supports the immune system.

In a normal sleep rhythm is at the onset of the evening when it gets dark, a melatonin pulse issued. This makes you sleepy and therefore actually follows a natural process to sleep if we go to bed. By artificial light, stay up late, watching TV and changing sleep times, this process makes it less likely to work than optimal sleep. Taking a tablet of melatonin just before bedtime, can help for a good night's sleep.

The dose at which the different effects of melatonin are expressed varies. Melatonin is sold in low and high doses. To all effects of melatonin may be necessary to use more than one tablet of 0.1 mg.

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Right in the middle of the brains is an organ that produces the substance naturally melatonin. The pineal gland (or epiphysis) plays a vital role in the body, turned out. People used to think it was a vestigial organ (an obsolete institution like the appendix), but that's different.

The discovery of melatonin production of a substance in the body (and what it means for the body) is widely accepted that it has a very important function in satisfaction of the body.

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Stress, crowding and aging can affect sleep. About 20 percent of Western people say they have a bad sleep. But when we talk about a good night's sleep? You sleep well, if you:

• Within fifteen minutes of falling asleep
  
  
• During the night, hardly awake;
  
  
• In deep sleep in the last two stages of sleep;
  
  
• Quiet breathing and having no cardiac arrhythmias;
  
  
• Not bothered by restless movements;
  
  
• Having a low body temperature against the morning;
  
  
• Quickly can sleep in at night after you're awake.

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