proper amount of sleep. the point david made, you get this hormone grellen in your brain, you re hungry, craving things. you re not happy until you nosh. is there a vitamin supplement? that s a good point. we ve spoken of melatonin. certainly that s fine. but i want to go back to what marc was talking about. we ve spoken of sleep apnea, patient whoz are obese it can work both ways. if you re obese you may be waking up because you have too much fat around your neck and you ll be grasping for oxygen. you go for a sleep study. there are centers where you go for sleep studies. they see you have restless leg syndrome or you wake up in the middle of the night. they monitor everything going on. your loved ones should look out eric that you re gasping for air or you suddenly stop breathing or snoring.
headlines on this tuesday, may 19th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now, with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. that sleep study, we need to get back into that a little bit. yeah. you were slightly troubled by this. i m troubled by all these sleep studies that come out. it reaffirms what we already know that it s bad for you. some of the hours and not getting sleep. sometimes it s irreparable. you can t reverse it, right. that s what you want to tell me now? irreversible. you know the word i want. no, that was kind of a mashup there. it was a mashup. of words. i m going to get that word together. we re going to talk about the amtrak tragedy. yes. welcoming reena back. she s been on duty in london for the past couple weeks. good to have you back. good to be back. since you were gone a lot of news taking place here. we were in the middle of the amtrak tragedy. investigators still looking into this but now they re dismissing reports that a bullet a
journey to repair his sleep and improve his health. a trucker with a a decent night s sleep he s hoping his sleep study can get him back on the road to rest. all this talk about sleep got me thinking about my own sleeping habits. i m busy, i have three kids, i work at the hospital, i work at cnn, i travel a lot so just how bad are my sleeping habits? i decided to come to the sleep center here in atlanta to try to figure out maybe we can all learn something. i ve done overnight sleep studies before, but this time i ll be doing a daytime one. if i can fall asleep at 2:00 in the afternoon, that s going to tell the doctors a a lot. it seems like having all these layers on would make it hard to sleep. some patients say that. after the wires, there s one more step before i can take my nap. it s a ten-minute electronic
i welcomed it with open arms. what s the goal ultimately? you want to get off of it? ultimately i want to get off of it. if it is associated with the weight, i will get off of it. as we both learned in our sleep studies, it s time to start taking sleep seriously. wearable technology and our smart phones are one way o to start tracking how much and how well we sleep. and remember, sleep is just as important as your diet and exercise. in fact, if you only have one free hour in a day and you have to choose between a nap or exercise, pick the nap. give yourself that chance to heal and your body will thank you for it. for vital signs, i m dr. sanjay gupta. sunday dinners at my house.
s. seems like everybody is looking for a better night s sleep. a california company knows that. they took what they could from sleep studies and put it into a sleep mask. the mission is to help american soldiers get ready for action. dominic is live from lange live from los angeles. interesting twist. there certainly is and who doesn t appreciate a good night s sleep. this is from carlsbad, california main monitoring company. it looks at whether we are getting good rest and gives american combat troops better sleep so they combine stay in the fight longer. listen. they call it a sleep profiler. what it consists of is electrodes. reporter: he is a sleep disorder expert who helped designed the monitor. it records body signals while lying in bed. the sound and and head movement could be