Dark Chocolate, Green Tea and Hypertension
Posted on April 10, 2007 by Dr. Krakow |The interesting question here is who would be more likely to eat dark chocolate, drink green tea, or suffer from hypertension? The answer is an individual with a sleep disorder and the most likely sleep disorder would be sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). SDB fragments your sleep by causing your brain to repeatedly wake up during repeated episodes of obstructed breathing, which you are not aware of because you are asleep at the time, and you tend to fall back asleep in seconds, so you don’t remember the awakening. This sleep fragmentation causes you to feel tired and sleepy during the day, which prompts many people to seek an energy boost in caffeinated products, such as dark chocolate and green tea. SDB-induced sleep fragmentation also has been linked to hypertension
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