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• Archive: Natasha Kerry - 7 Steps to Better Sleep Eight hours of snoozing.
• If only we could master it, we’d be healthier, happier, calmer, sharper and generally all-round better versions of our usual groggy, yawning, puffy-eyed selves.
• Roughly 35 to 40 per cent of UAE residents have suffered from a sleep disorder at some point in their life, according to Arab Health Online, and sleep problems constitute a global epidemic affecting up to 45 per cent of the world’s population according to the World Association of Sleep Medicine.
• Research suggests that long-term bad sleep can damage health, while in the short-term, our immune systems suffer and it leaves us zapped, irritable and unable to concentrate.
• Get Natasha Kerry - 7 Steps to Better Sleep download “Poor sleep among people living in the UAE is often caused by obesity and accompanying obstructive sleep apnea, stress, shift work and jet lag,” says Dr Suresh Menon, medical director and a specialist in internal medicine, Lifeline Hospital, Jebel Ali, who says he sees two to three patients per week with sleeping disorders. During particularly stressful phases like exams or relationship breakdowns, or after trauma, grief, physical illness or pain, it’s normal for sleep to suffer and insomnia can become a chronic problem for some.