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SUMMARY OF The power of the downstate: The New science to ignite energy, enhance sharpness and reclaim balance By Sara C Mednick
This is not the main Book and in no way intends to replace it, it is however a SUMMARY that was calmly and marvelously written by Anna Charles
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written in simple English language that can be grasped by people of all levels.
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it is pocket-friendly and equally time friendly yet priceless. If you’re like most people, the relentless daily grind of go-go-go, do-do-do, can run down your energy and deplete your resources. While most of us find our lives full of “Upstate” moments that rev up our stress engines, it doesn’t have to be this way. World-renowned sleep researcher Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D., shows us how we can access the most replenishing and repairing aspects of sleep through activities and moments that happen during our day by diving into our “Downstate.” Dr. Mednick shows that bringing ourselves back to the Downstate is critical for our health, well-being, and cognitive longevity.
Drawing on her original findings—and those of others across many fields of medicine—Dr. Mednick creates a comprehensive picture of the Upstate/Downstate rhythms that orchestrate all of our bodies’ vital systems, along with a novel theory that aging is caused by spending less and less time in Downstate activities. The Power of the Downstate offers practical, evidence-based insight into how we can all enable those systems to work together in better harmony. You’ll How our bodies and minds are guided by a natural Upstate/Downstate rhythm—and how our modern lifestyles disrupt these rhythms to our detriment; How our vital organs and systems benefit from spending more time in the Downstate – which decreases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, chronic illness, and early death; How we can activate the Downstate through rethinking how to breathe, eat, sleep and exercise; and The practical four-week Downstate RecoveryPlus Plan. Get ready to be more alert, productive, and cognitively sharp during the day, feel greater intimacy and affection, and enjoy consolidated, restorative sleep at night . . . not to mention expand your years of mental and physical vitality.
Drawing on her original findings—and those of others across many fields of medicine—Dr. Mednick creates a comprehensive picture of the Upstate/Downstate rhythms that orchestrate all of our bodies’ vital systems, along with a novel theory that aging is caused by spending less and less time in Downstate activities. The Power of the Downstate offers practical, evidence-based insight into how we can all enable those systems to work together in better harmony. You’ll How our bodies and minds are guided by a natural Upstate/Downstate rhythm—and how our modern lifestyles disrupt these rhythms to our detriment; How our vital organs and systems benefit from spending more time in the Downstate – which decreases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, chronic illness, and early death; How we can activate the Downstate through rethinking how to breathe, eat, sleep and exercise; and The practical four-week Downstate RecoveryPlus Plan. Get ready to be more alert, productive, and cognitively sharp during the day, feel greater intimacy and affection, and enjoy consolidated, restorative sleep at night . . . not to mention expand your years of mental and physical vitality.
25 pages, Paperback
Published September 18, 2022
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April 4, 2023
🌿🌸 So,so,so appreciative of this wonderful book by Sara Mednick !!
I sincerely wish I had read it 10~ no 20 years ago ! I sincerely feel like I have my life back for the first time in decades and I’ve never looked or felt younger and I’m 70 years old !
Grade schoolers need to be taught this ~ no preschoolers need to be taught the merits of the downstate !
I never realized I was always in the upstate and not much in the downstate.
Now I know how to reap the benefits during the day and when I’m sleeping, thru the wonderful activities and information that Miss Mednick has outlined in her life altering book.
So much is contained in this book and it’s all easily doable, and it sure beats the zombie life I was living before I embraced this new way to fully live, thanks to all the screens & the radiation from our new upside down society !
🌿🌸 Little gift here for you all: Check out the amazing new book by Gaia Bernstein, called “Unwired”.
Its hot off the press, and it really lays it on the line as to what we need to do now that we’re all addicted to our screens..
it’s a Manifesto of reclaiming your lives and your health, and putting the cause where it belongs on all of the billion dollar companies and their evil little plan to “keep” us on our phones24/7, starting at two years of age.
Miss Bernstein’s book it’s like a lighthouse in the darkness, showing a clear path to freedom .
🌿🌸 Kind regards all around.
I sincerely wish I had read it 10~ no 20 years ago ! I sincerely feel like I have my life back for the first time in decades and I’ve never looked or felt younger and I’m 70 years old !
Grade schoolers need to be taught this ~ no preschoolers need to be taught the merits of the downstate !
I never realized I was always in the upstate and not much in the downstate.
Now I know how to reap the benefits during the day and when I’m sleeping, thru the wonderful activities and information that Miss Mednick has outlined in her life altering book.
So much is contained in this book and it’s all easily doable, and it sure beats the zombie life I was living before I embraced this new way to fully live, thanks to all the screens & the radiation from our new upside down society !
🌿🌸 Little gift here for you all: Check out the amazing new book by Gaia Bernstein, called “Unwired”.
Its hot off the press, and it really lays it on the line as to what we need to do now that we’re all addicted to our screens..
it’s a Manifesto of reclaiming your lives and your health, and putting the cause where it belongs on all of the billion dollar companies and their evil little plan to “keep” us on our phones24/7, starting at two years of age.
Miss Bernstein’s book it’s like a lighthouse in the darkness, showing a clear path to freedom .
🌿🌸 Kind regards all around.
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