Hello and welcome back to the lovely outside. I put some photographs at the beginning of this video so that you can see what I see when I'm talking to you here. I'm on a little mini break. I'm on a holiday with my family who were off walking in the hills. I was doing that yesterday with them but today, I decided to take a little break out and to do some filming as part of my series on stress and the midlife midlife woman. So this is something like number six or seven in a series of very, very short videos on stress in the 21st century and what it's like and why we are a nation that is suffering with more illness and dis ease.

When you would think with all the knowledge and all the scientific breakthroughs with all of the caring that we understand about our bodies that we would be living healthier lives. Actually, you know, we have an epidemic of growth. Some epidemic of the common diseases such as heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, those kind of common ones, and particularly interested in obesity, diabetes, and also the hormone imbalances that so many women are suffering from. So today my subject is sleep. I couldn't possibly do a series on stress without covering this really important subject. It's particularly important to me because I am and have been a poor sleeper, particularly since the onset of my perimenopausal symptoms.

So if you're a woman, you may be experiencing the same thing. You know, poor sleep often because I'm woken up or have been woken up by hot flashes, night sweats, by sometimes palpitations in the night. But there are also lots of other reasons for poor sleep patterns. And of course, stress is one of those. So you will have noticed no doubt that if you are in periods of stress in your life that you Your sleep patterns are disturbed. So why is it important that we understand the effect of stress in our sleep?

Well, just a couple of facts for a start. If you have, say, five hours night's sleep a night, you are something like 60% more likely to develop a cough or a cold. So it's interesting, isn't it? I don't know. You know about you, if you've ever gone on a journey or perhaps a plane journey, and you've gotten up really early in the morning to catch that early flight, we tend to put the call down to the fact that we're in this confined you know, area with all these other people and I'm sure that's something to do with it. But when I heard this statistic, I thought, wow, actually, you're right.

You know, if I'm, if I'm catching a really early flight, thinking about it, I probably those are the times when I've been ill. It's really to do with being in that confined space with all these really unhealthy people. But perhaps it's to do with the fact that I've had very little sleep. Another fact about getting poor sleep as well. And perhaps, I think the other statistic I heard was if you get four hours sleep a night, is that your anti cancer fighting cells are diminished or repressed by about 70%. So sleep is super, super important.

And I have a lot of time to go through some of my kind of sleep recommendations in the short videos, but I haven't I will put together a presentation along with it presentation that will go through the facts and figures about sleep and some of the practical things that you can do to get extra sleep at night and to make sure that the quality of your sleep is good, if not the quantity. So look out for those. Remember to like, share, and subscribe to my video and to my YouTube channel. And I'll see you on The next time