No side effects Sound file is designed to help against sleep disorders

Sleep aid without side effects
"Good night!" - with these words, partners wish a restful sleep in the evening. For more than 20 million Germans, however, it remains the desire, they suffer from falling asleep or staying asleep. Women are usually twice as likely to be affected as men. Many of them are even dependent on sleeping pills because they simply can not shut down in the evening. A new treatment method, based on soothing sound files, now provides a remedy.

Sleep aid without side effects. Image: Karin & Uwe Annas - fotolia

"The cause of falling asleep is usually in the activity level of the brain, triggered by excessive stress," explains the Duisburg ENT doctor. Uso Walter. "When it comes to stress, the beta waves, which oscillate at up to 30 Hz more than twice as fast as the alpha waves in calm phases and five times as fast as the theta waves when sleeping, dominate." And there it is not so easy to come down again. Sleep and calming tablets promise a simple solution, but it is very dangerous. Because the addictive potential and the side effects are considerable. A simple, acoustic alternative are so-called binary beats. Background: If two slightly different highs are heard on the right and left ear, the brain oscillates to the difference between the two frequencies. Embedded in sound files specially developed for sleep disorders, the brain and also the human being can calm down without any side effects.

The scientifically well-documented method has long been established in sleep medicine and is now financially affordable. It costs about 40 euros. (Pm)