{"id":3369,"date":"2015-03-13T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:38:26","slug":"a-struggle-for-many-texans-getting-a-good-nights-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"A Struggle for Many Texans: Getting A Good Night\u2019s Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3370\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3370\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44854-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Texans lost an hour of sleep this weekend as clocks sprang forward, but for many this was just another day in their regular struggle to get enough rest. Photo: DieselDemon\/Flickr.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44854-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44854-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44854-1-1-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44854-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texans lost an hour of sleep this weekend as clocks sprang forward, but for many this was just another day in their regular struggle to get enough rest. Photo: DieselDemon\/Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>by John Michaelson\/TNS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ABILENE, Texas &#8211; Like food, water and oxygen, sleep is one of the basics for human survival, but for many folks, getting a good night\u2019s sleep on a regular basis is little more than a dream. It\u2019s estimated more than a third of adults don\u2019t always get the amount of sleep they need to feel their best.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re among them Dr. Theodore Dyer, medical director of the Hendrick Sleep Disorder Center in Abilene, suggests having a bedtime routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the time you go to sleep and the time you wake up vary from one day to the next, that kind of works against your ability to be effective in getting to sleep,\u201d Dyer says.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new poll out today from the National Sleep Foundation, pain, stress and poor health all correlate to shorter sleep durations and worse sleep quality for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, there are about 80 different types of sleep disorders. Dyer says among the most common are insomnia, restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Apnea usually involves narrow or collapsed airways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you can also have central apneas where the brain either forgets to tell you to breath or is getting bad information so it thinks you\u2019re breathing too much,\u201d Dyer says. \u201cSo you don\u2019t breath, but it\u2019s not because you can\u2019t. It\u2019s because your brain is not telling you to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Michaelson\/TNS ABILENE, Texas &#8211; Like food, water and oxygen, sleep is one of the basics for human survival, but for many folks, getting a good night\u2019s sleep on a regular basis is little more than a dream. It\u2019s estimated more than a third of adults don\u2019t always get the amount of sleep they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}