Opinion 51

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If they survived it, so did I, I told myself for a long time; but the truth is that I made something normal that shouldn't be.

By Edmée Pardo

I have suffered from insomnia for many years. My quality of sleep ranges from fair to very poor, depending on the season. It is rare the night that I sleep straight through, as I saw it happen to my grandfather and it also happens to my father. If they survived it, so did I, I told myself for a long time; but the truth is that I made something normal that shouldn't be normal and started a long battle against not sleeping. I have learned to use nighttime wakefulness to rest with postures, meditations and brain frequencies. I have tried almost all existing methods to fight it: from a certain type of breathing to drugs. I have consulted neurologists, hypnotists and shamans. I have moved through the biological, the psychological, the emotional and the metaphysical. My longing is for the night to be an uninterrupted block, to open my eyes after eight hours of deep rest. I am now looking into my metabolic health based on the glycemic index and my body temperature to see if there is a clue and possible answer to my ailment. The hypothesis is that high blood glucose levels and poor sugar control are related to poor sleep quality.

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