{"id":57245,"date":"2024-09-02T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T23:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57245"},"modified":"2024-09-02T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T23:20:23","slug":"the-importance-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57245","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sleeping Aids and Electromagnetic Fields<\/a> by A Midwestern Doctor<\/h1>\n

I believe one of the biggest issues in modern medicine is that patients often don\u2019t get the opportunity to establish a genuine relationship with their physician and hence often lack the critical voice which is necessary for a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship. Because of this, my goal here was always to be able to correspond with everyone who reached out to me. Unfortunately, due to the traffic I now receive, it\u2019s not possible to do that. For that reason, I decided the best solution was to have a monthly open thread (where people could ask any question they wanted) and link that to a topic I\u2019d wanted to write about but didn\u2019t quite feel merited a full article. In this month\u2019s open thread, I will discuss another facet of the insomnia puzzle\u2014the devices that improve sleep and strategies for sleep friendly housing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Importance of Sleep<\/h1>\n

Presently, I believe one of the most important things for health is having restorative sleep which in turn requires having a functional sleep cycle. For example, as\u00a0I showed in a recent article<\/a>, some of the critical functions of sleep include:<\/p>\n