Care For Your Sleep

A group of scientists in the US are reporting that they are on the verge of creating a new revolutionary cure for insomnia based on their new discovery of an enzyme responsible for our sleep-wake up routine. After a series of chemical tests and studies related to mechanisms of sleep regulation, the researchers found a chemical compound that is responsible for producing a restful sleep, and according to the findings, blocking this enzyme production can be associated with total suppressing of our sleep function. In other words, some certain amounts of this enzyme in the body can cause a person to wake up.

Millions of people around the world are suffering from such sleep disorder as insomnia, and in most of those people this sleep disorder turned into a chronic problem. That is why finding an effective cure for insomnia is a very topical problem nowadays. Many specialists are carrying out experiments trying to analyze chemical processes that take place in our brain while we are sleeping. It is known that sleep is regulated by numerous chemical processes, as well as other mechanisms influenced by other mental, environmental, psychological and other factors. Some of those are not properly understood yet.

Currently, there are quite a few cures for insomnia available for modern people, however, most of those have dangerous side effects and can not help in combating the problem from its roots. That is why the recent research gives great hopes to everyone who is in need of a cure for insomnia. The scientists tried to understand regulation mechanisms on cellular levels that can lead to finding causes and possible treatments for many sleep disorders. In particular, it was found our that blocking  the enzyme can cause non-REM and REM stages of sleep and improve our sleep quality.

“Current treatments for sleep disorders do not achieve the ideal behavioral outcome, and are usually accompanied by many undesirable side effects,” Dr Subimal Dutta, one of the study leaders and an author of the report commented to the mass media. “A more specific, fine-tuned approach to treating these disorders by promoting alertness and treating insomnia would greatly benefit public health,” she added. You can read more about the findings of the US scientists and opinions of the leading sleep experts on the perspectives of creating a new cure for insomnia in the latest issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.