Non Restoravative Sleep - New research

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I recorded a show on the Research Channel from Stanford University about

Fibromyalgia out of curiosity if they mentioned Lyme Disease. Wow, they did, as

a one of many causes of FM. Here's the link to the telecast:

http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rid=28078

Dr. Mackey, MD, PhD was the speaker. There are no pharmaceutical industry

or business interests involved in this study.

Anyway they have discovered something new about sleep, or lack there of with non

restorative sleep. For the first time, I understand why we (Lymies, etc.) never

feel rested.

The research on how the nerve pathways work and the disease affects the

receptors on glial cells, causing hyperexcitable glial cells which prevent the

production of proinflammatory cytokines that are responsible for working during

sleep. They found glial cells are no longer working properly and allow pulses

during sleep so that one never is able to go into the slow sleep rhythm

necessary for restorative sleep.

They did a study on low dose naltrexone .5 and found that it blocks the

receptors on glial cells and allows people to sleep restoratively as well as it

also cut their pain in half.

I thought you all might benefit from this new research, they are starting new

trials and are recruiting people to take part in the new study.

http://snapl.stanford.edu/ldn/

The past study is about to be released and peer reviewed. And the fact that it's

a super cheap drug keeps the drug companies uninterested!

Hope this information helps you as much as it did me, just finally understanding

the mechanism of how this is happening is a good thing.