300 Million People Have Poor Sleep, Spurring a New Model of Sleep Management
In recent years, the incidence of sleep disorders has been increasing with the continuous socio-economic development of China and the accelerated pace of work. More and more people recognize that chronic sleep deprivation causes or increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, depression, diabetes and obesity, and impairs cognition, memory, metabolism and the immune system. Not only can sleep disorders trigger and exacerbate a wide range of chronic diseases, they are a chronic condition of concern and damage in their own right.
In order to improve the sleep condition, people began to spare no effort to find ways and means to help themselves improve sleep, such as standardizing work and rest, dietary regulation, exercise and fitness, relaxation and soothing, as well as trying to use a variety of scientific and technological products to help and improve sleep, which has given rise to a huge market opportunity - 300 million people in China do not sleep well, and it is becoming a healthcare health industry urgently needs to solve the problem.
According to the "Latest Survey Data on Global Sleep Condition and Sleep Cognition and the Latest Achievements in Sleep Medicine" released by the Sleep Medicine Specialized Committee of Chinese Physicians' Association, 30.9% of the people need more than 30 minutes to fall asleep, 0.9% of the people need medication to help them fall asleep, and sleep disorders are troubling a large number of people.
How to solve the sleep disorder? At present, there are many attempts in the industry. Among them, the emerging "lifestyle change + functional medicine physical intervention" is gradually gaining more understanding and recognition.
"Lifestyle change" is to enhance the body's ability to prevent and control diseases through balanced diet, reasonable exercise, scientific work and rest, stress management and other ways. According to the World Health Organization, lifestyle accounts for 60% of the factors affecting human health.
Clinical studies have shown that the overall effective rate (prevention, reversal and recovery) of intensive lifestyle intervention treatment for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and metabolic diseases is more than 80%, and it can change the expression level of more than 500 human genes, inhibit the expression of cancer-promoting genes, and have a clear inhibitory and reversal effect on the occurrence and development of tumors, and effectively improve the 5-year survival rate of tumor patients. Sleep disorders as a comprehensive symptom of chronic diseases, lifestyle improvement will help solve the problem.
"Functional Medicine Physical Intervention" refers to the improvement of microcirculation through low-frequency magnetic field to enhance health. Most of the sleep disorders are caused by abnormalities of neurons in the brain controlling the normal physiological function of sleep, causing sleep-wake disorders, and are the result of imbalance of excitation and inhibition of the sleep center. Modern magnetic biology believes that the disease is generated by the loss of balance of the biological magnetic field in the body, the human central nervous system is particularly sensitive to the magnetic field, and mainly inhibitory effect. Therefore, the external magnetic field can be used to correct the imbalance of the sleep center.
Pulse magnetic field has the effect of lifting cerebral vascular spasm, diastolic blood vessels, increasing vascular elasticity, etc. Acting on brain cells and cerebral blood vessels, it can improve the metabolic environment of brain cells, affect the permeability of cell membrane to ions, and at the same time enhance the activity of metabolic enzymes, so as to accelerate the metabolism of the damaged brain cells, increase the reparability of the damaged cells, and prompt the recovery of brain functions. Interfering with and inhibiting the occurrence and propagation of abnormal brain electricity, making the brain electrical activity tend to physiological balance, enhancing the regulation of the cerebral cortex on the autonomic nervous center, which can significantly improve sleep and eliminate the symptoms related to neurasthenia and brain fatigue.
The most representative functional medical sleep intervention device in the market is the pulse magnetic sleep therapy machine. It adopts the principle of bionic pulse magnetic resonance, combined with extremely low frequency electromagnetic introduction technology and space electromagnetic field control technology, through the reorganization of multi-group pulse transmitter source array, transmits extremely low frequency PEMF, generates 3-15Hz variable frequency harmonic wave, simulates the brain electric law in the process of falling asleep, couples the human brain through the external pulse magnetic field, forms the induced current in the brain, triggers the active sleep center which resonates with the pulsed magnetic field, causing nerve impulses and proliferative responses of tissue cells, actively transmitting information to the reticular system. As the stimulating magnetic field gradually transitions from simulating awake and relaxed EEG rhythm to simulating slow-wave sleep EEG rhythm, the excitability of neurons gradually decreases and inhibition dominates, which plays a role in promoting sleep and intervening in sleep disorders.
At present, the intervention mode of "lifestyle change + functional medicine physical intervention" has been applied in some domestic hospital sleep medicine centers, university sleep research laboratories and social sleep management institutions. However, as the demand for screening and intervention treatment of sleep disordered people grows, it is more urgent for more medical institutions and health management institutions to build intelligent and standardized sleep management centers and cultivate sleep professionals; at the same time, there is a greater need for intelligent and portable home version of sleep intervention equipment to enter the community and family, so that the treatment of sleep disordered people can be changed from regular to anytime and anywhere, thus providing better services for sleep disordered people. At the same time, there is a greater need for intelligent and portable home-use sleep intervention devices to enter the community and families, so that the treatment of people with sleep disorders can be changed from time and place to anytime and anywhere, thus providing better services for them.
It is foreseeable that from solving sleep disorders, the mode of "lifestyle change + functional medicine physical intervention" will bring more imagination in the prevention and treatment of more chronic diseases.