You must have seen how pharmaceutical companies try to bear on us that insomnia is a disease and they always have a pill with them that promises complete cure. They are beamed on TV and splashed across in the print media to get you hooked to their magic pill.

But the reality is that most Americans are not getting hooked to ads like these and are increasingly looking for remedies that do not have any side effects. Nearly 1.6 million Americans suffered from insomnia according to a survey taken in 2002. When asked why they chose alternative medicine instead of over the counter drugs to cure insomnia, they harped on side effects to be the main cause.

Sleeping pills that are prescribed by doctors can impair your natural process which has already been hampered. If you take a look at the reason for lower mortality rates among the people you would find they never took sleeping pills. Sleeping pills can damage the natural system and be fatal in the long run. Americans who had taken sleeping pills over a period of time have perished as drugs that induce sleep artificially can also kill.

Americans are taking to alternative medicine

It is no wonder that Americans are taking to holistic cure, naturopathy, homeopathy and other herbal alternatives as insomnia remedies. Many who are using the sleeping pills beamed on television reported no changes in chronic insomnia they were suffering from. And resorting to drugs loaded with chemical ingredients has made them dependent on the chemicals that were supposed to be cures for insomnia. Chemicals contained in the drugs also lead to lower brain activity and results in a short memory.

An overdose of sleeping pills to cure insomnia can risk asphyxiation as the GABA neurotransmitter goes on an overdrive. It makes the tissues in the lungs hyper active and it is the very reason why nearly 1000 Americans die every year due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Physical activity also takes a beating and it also leads to accidents and falls every year.

Insomnia remedies are now becoming popular in the alternative sector where there are no chances of any side effects.

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