Sleep Disorders

A good night’s sleep helps your brain function properly throughout the day and promotes emotional health.

While you sleep, your brain processes the memories from the previous day preparing for the day ahead and forming new pathways to help you learn and function properly. Sleep deficiency affects your brain activity causing lapses in memory, difficulty making decisions, compromising your safety, creating barriers to learning, and even making it difficult to control your emotions and behavior. This can make other conditions such as depression, suicide, anxiety, and mood swings worse. In short, these conditions are related to sleep deprivation, and the solution involves rebuilding the foundation of solid sleep.

Not getting enough sleep or getting irregular sleep can also have adverse effects on your physical health.

Sleep is a time when your body has a chance to repair any damage from the previous day. Increased risk for serious health concerns including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, stroke, and obesity have all been linked with chronic sleep deficiency.

Sleep is regulated by the body clock (SCN or suprachiasmatic nucleus), and it is set by morning sunlight. This daily sleep cycle(circadian) regulates many of the hormones such as the thyroid hormone, cortisol, and melatonin. All of these can have additional effects on your mental and physical health. Sometimes working night shifts, staying up late, and other medical or psychiatric illnesses will disrupt this cycle. If this happens, we need to intervene and restore your health by resetting this circadian rhythm.

This daily sleep cycle(circadian) regulates many of the hormones such as the thyroid hormone, cortisol, and melatonin. All of these can have additional effects on your mental and physical health. Sometimes working night shifts, staying up late, and other medical or psychiatric illnesses will disrupt this cycle. If this happens, we need to intervene and restore your health by resetting this circadian rhythm.

Sleep at Your Best

Restoring your health one restful night at a time.

It seems much too often doctors choose to prescribe medication to help mask the condition instead of finding and fixing the root problem. If your sleep disturbance is taking its toll on your physical and emotional health, we want to help you find the cause. Of course, medication may still be necessary for complete treatment, but we will utilize all options and resources to ensure you’re getting the most comprehensive treatment for your unique situation.

Our providers are trained and experienced and will assess your current medical conditions along with your sleep deficiency from a unique perspective; a perspective that looks at the big picture to accurately identify the possibilities and consider all angles when diagnosing and developing the best treatment plan for you.