China's Gu Ailing won the championship with his outstanding performance in the final of the freestyle ski jump at the Winter Olympics, winning the third gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics! Ski genius, early completion of high school, admission to Stanford University, darling of the fashion industry... How does this "open and hanging life" do it?
Sleeping 10 hours a night is Gu Ailing's "secret weapon"
Gu Ailing once shared his secret: "Sleep is my 'secret weapon' from sleeping 10 hours a night since I was a child, and now it is. ”
"From the age of 8 to 14, I always skied only on weekends. And the secret weapon I can do better than older, more professional athletes is to sleep ten hours a day, really ten hours a day. She even called her mom "Sleep Cop." Because her mother always stressed sleeping well with her, and Gu Ailing's mother also said in an interview: "My education for Gu Ailing is, first, sleep more; second, study more; third, play more. ”
Insomnia is getting younger
The Insomnia Clinic of the Department of Integrative Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of Nanjing Integrative Traditional chinese and Western Medicine counted the big data of 2,000 insomnia patients, and the analysis found that there were more and more insomnias in young people.
"Among the patients who come to the hospital for treatment, more than 40% of the sleep disorders over the age of 60 are over the age of 60, and about 2/3 of the women are insomnia. They generally go to bed earlier, lie in bed and watch mobile phones and TV, and their sleep hygiene habits are not good, which affects sleep. Yang Xiaohui, director of the Department of Treatment of Pre-existing Diseases of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, introduced that about 1/3 of men suffer from sleep apnea syndrome, of which 40-60 years old sleep disorder patients account for about 30%, female patients account for the majority, menopausal women more.
According to Yang Xiaohui, about 30% of the insomnia patients treated by the department are young people under the age of 30, of which 4/5 of the patients are distributed among college students aged 20-30, and the majority of the examination and research population is. This part of the population has greater learning pressure and shows an upward trend year by year. "The main reason is that sleep is irregular, sleep habits are not good, and the proportion of men and women is not obvious, but boys are more anxious, and worrying about the future is the cause of general anxiety among boys, and it is also the root cause of insomnia." Yang Xiaohui pointed out that about 1/5 of the insomniac people are middle and high school graduates, and a small number of children will have sleep apnea syndrome due to adenoid hypertrophy.
Long-term sleep of less than 6 hours a day increases the risk of disease
Poor sleep can cause a variety of problems related to the immune system. It is reported that people who sleep less than 6 hours a day for a long time have a greatly improved chance of suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, abnormal heart rate, and memory decline, and will also affect immunity, so pay special attention to sleep quality.
A study by Neurological Weekly found that people who had difficulty falling asleep or not falling asleep, waking up too early, or having trouble concentrating during the day due to lack of sleep, all three insomnia symptoms, had a 18 percent higher risk of stroke or heart disease than those without insomnia symptoms. People who have difficulty falling asleep or can't sleep increase their risk of developing the disease by 9 percent, those who wake up too early have a 7 percent increased risk of developing the disease, and those who have difficulty concentrating during the day due to fatigue increase their risk of developing disease by 13 percent.
Spring is more likely to insomnia, may be the liver "on fire"
"Sleepy in spring, lacking in summer, napping in summer, not waking up in winter and March.". In the spring, many people will have "spring sleepiness", but there are also many people who are more prone to insomnia in the spring, what is going on?
"Spring insomnia patients are more commonly based on 'liver fire', and most of them are women." Yang Xiaohui explained that Chinese medicine believes that the five elements of the liver belong to the wood corresponding to spring, and because of the main drainage of the liver, hair growth is its significant feature. "Spring yang qi rises, liver wood is easy to make fire, if the liver qi depression, liver disorders, qi depression fire, it will disturb the mind and induce insomnia." Symptoms such as dizziness, redness, insomnia, mouth and tongue sores, facial acne, etc. ”
Yang Xiaohui, director of the Department of Treatment of Advanced Diseases of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, pointed out that the mild ones are manifested as difficulty falling asleep, easy to wake up from sleep, and difficult to fall asleep again after waking up, for more than 3 consecutive weeks. In severe cases, it is difficult to sleep all night, plain irritability and irritability, insomnia symptoms worsen after emotional fluctuations such as anger, and are often accompanied by headaches and dizziness, red eyes and tinnitus, dry mouth, loss of appetite, restlessness, dreams, constipation, etc. Yang Xiaohui suggested that such patients can try the conditioning of the combination of internal and external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, and insomnia patients who like music can try traditional Chinese medicine music therapy, and choose music that helps sleep according to the specific type.
"Beauty sleep" really exists, and the higher the quality of sleep, the better it looks
Many people have heard of beauty sleep, so how do you sleep with this sleep?
Research published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine revealed that the higher the quality of your sleep, the better you look. The study also found that a few months of good sleep can change a person's appearance.
Yang Xiaohui, director of the Department of Treatment of Diseases in Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, insomnia is not conducive to the balance of yin and yang in the body, and the disruption of this balance will affect the operation of qi and blood in the entire body, and the reaction to the skin is often manifested as pale and not rosy. From the perspective of Western medicine, insomnia can lead to dull skin, dark circles, and wrinkles. Because when you are sleep deprived, the body will release a lot of stress hormone cortisol, once this cortisol secreted too much, it will consume collagen in the skin, so that the skin loses elasticity, so that people will be prone to aging.
【Extended reading】Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine has opened a multidisciplinary integrated insomnia clinic for integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine
With the acceleration of people's work and life rhythm, as well as the impact of unhealthy lifestyles and other factors, more and more insomnia patients, however, insomnia problems often involve multiple departments of the hospital, bringing inconvenience to many insomnia patients. In order to facilitate the treatment of insomnia patients, improve the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment, update the service concept, optimize the medical treatment process, and better play the advantages of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine has opened a multidisciplinary integrated insomnia clinic of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the national key specialty of traditional Chinese medicine in the hospital, integrating the professional advantages of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and multidisciplinary, so that insomnia patients can get the most optimized comprehensive treatment services.
It is understood that the outpatient clinic can not only be served by a number of experts from different departments of traditional Chinese and Western medicine for the same insomnia patient, but also will tailor the best treatment plan of the package according to the patient's condition, reducing the problems of repeated registration of patients, multiple departments running, and multiple waiting queues.
Previously, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine took the lead in jiangsu to introduce the CPC sleep monitoring technology of the BID Medical Center of Harvard Medical School in the United States, carried out the sleep physical examination project of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, gave full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of insomnia, and used music therapy, traditional Chinese medicine therapy, acupuncture, gua sha, cupping, tuina, Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture point patching, aromatherapy, Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath and other treatment of insomnia. The insomnia clinic of the hospital brings together front-line experts from nearly ten clinical departments to evaluate the effect of the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of insomnia, and extends the service outside the hospital to realize the organic combination of admission treatment and home treatment, so that the majority of insomnia patients can easily enjoy the real integrated insomnia diagnosis and treatment services of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
Source: Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Correspondent: Yang Pu
Editor: Huang Menglin
Reviewer: Xie Tao
Issued: Wan Hongxin
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