Which sleeping pill is dangerous you ask?
Short answer, all of them.
I know sounds shocking right?
I know what you’re going to say…”Well if sleeping pills weren’t safe they wouldn’t have been approved by the FDA”
Well that would be true if the FDA actually did their job and cared about you. Turns out medical doctors are more dangerous than guns and doctors kill 444,000 people per year following the standard of care (I call it the Standard of Scare)
That’s not even making a mistake.
That’s people taking the right drug, for the right reason, at the right time for the right amount of time.
If you count the mistakes doctors make along with this 444,000 people per year it might be double that.
Can you imagine if vitamin C did that?
It would be banned forever and it would be demonized all over the news.
Even thought it’s not a sleeping pill Rezulin used for diabetes had to be pulled from the market for causing wide spread liver damage on over 100,000 patients.
Some do it more than others but all drugs cause liver damage.
Even if they’re over the counter sleeping pills like Ambien, Tylenol PM, Nyquil etc, in my opinion they are still dangerous and toxic to your liver.
The key isn’t to take a sleeping pill in order to cure your insomnia, you want to heal what the real problem is. What happens if you forget to take your sleeping pill? What happens if they discontinue it? What happens if that pharmaceutical company goes out of business? What happens to your health for the rest of you life?
Because you do realize that if you take a sleeping pill and think that that is going to fix your sleep, you’ll be taking them for the rest of your life?
Imagine that for a moment.
Let’s say you’re 30 years old right now reading this. And you want to live until you’re 80. That’s 50 more years of taking sleeping pills.
If you only take one sleeping pill per night for the next 50 years, that’s 18,250 sleeping pills. If you take 2 per night that’s 36,500 sleeping pills.
If you took even one third of those pills at one time, what do you think would happen?
Is it any less toxic by spreading them out over 50 years? Of course not. They damage is still being done, you just don’t notice it.
So you have to get out of the mindset of taking a sleeping pill in order to fall asleep.
There Are No “Side Effects”
Sleeping pills are not your answer, even though they may work (but at a cost).
Do you know how I know that?
Because at one point in your life, you feel asleep easily and slept for eight hours a night without having taken said sleeping pill.
If your body did it once in your life with no real effort, then it’s not the lack of a sleeping pill that’s causing your insomnia.
Doctors like to mask the language to make things sound better in order to keep getting kickbacks from the products they sell.
There are no “side effects”.
There are just “effects”.
Drugs have effects, it’s that simple.
3 Classifications of Sleeping Pills
There are two classifications of sleeping pills.
Benzodiazepines, such as lorazepam (Ativan) and temazepam (Restoril), work by targeting gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a brain chemical that reduces nerve activity and promotes sleep. While effective, benzodiazepines can be habit-forming and may cause daytime drowsiness. These drugs also carry a serious risk when combined with prescription painkillers, as previously reported. “There is also concern that long-term use of benzodiazepines may contribute to the development of dementia, though this is still being investigated,” says Dr. Epstein. He further highlights the risk of falls if users wake up feeling groggy after taking these medications.
Nonbenzodiazepines , such as zolpidem (Ambien) and eszopiclone (Lunesta) target GABA as well. However, they don’t last as long in the body and have fewer side effects compared with benzodiazepines. But they still put you at risk for sleepwalking and daytime sleepiness.
Melatonin-receptor agonists, such as ramelteon (Rozerem), are quickly eliminated from the body. These drugs target melatonin receptors in the brain and are generally considered non-habit forming.
I would read this book about the dangers of sleeping pills.
The question isn’t which sleeping pill is dangerous, but which one isn’t?
What I want to convey here in this article about which sleeping pill is dangerous is that the side effects are not really put into language correctly. There’s no informed consent in a sense. They’re mitigated.
The side effects are talked about as if they’re no big deal.
They’re marginalized.
They’re talked about in such a way as to think “what’s the big deal? What’s a little dry mouth for a day or so?”
That’s the point.
They’re not talking about the internal organ damage that’s happening and you don’t even know it.
Your liver has over 500 functions. Some of them are to help your gall bladder produce bile, to convert inactive thyroid hormone T4 into usable thyroid hormone T3, detoxify heavy metals, digest food and more.
Let’s just take digest food.
What happens if you cannot digest your food?
Good luck sitting on the toilet.
Good luck being able to get the vitamins and minerals necessary to carry out basic functions like make Vitamin D from the sun. Vitamin D alone is responsible for 1,500 gene activations. For this conversion to happen, magnesium is required.
Do you want to turn off immune genes and turn on cancer genes? Well if you can’t make vitamin D when UVB sunshine hits your skin then good luck with that.
In 5 years you get diagnosed with terminal cancer because you’re not making Vitamin D and turning on/off the right genes, is anybody going to say it was those dangerous sleeping pills you took?
No, because people don’t connect any dots.
We live in a culture of isolation.
You have foot doctor, an eye doctor, an ear nose and throat doctor all the while not knowing the body is connected at every level.
Nothing in nature is isolated like that.
But because we’ve done it with everything, we don’t think seemingly unrelated things could be connected.
What To Do Instead
Instead of taking dangerous sleeping pill hoping they’ll allow you to get decent sleep, work on fixing your mitochondria and your circadian rhythm.
It’s more work and takes longer but guess what? There’s no side effects!
The only effect is being able to fall asleep quickly, stay asleep all night and wake up feeling energized and amazing in the morning.
That’s an effect I can get behind.
I used to have severe insomnia. I’d go to bed at 3 and lay there for a couple hours tossing and turning at night.
Since then, I’ve healed my mitochondria and now I live a 100% circadian based lifestyle connected tightly to nature and my sleep has never been better.
Conclusion
Instead of asking which sleeping pill is dangerous, just know, they all are to a greater or lesser degree. Do the hard work of restoring your mitochondria and circadian rhythm. You’ll be glad you did.
Questions:
- Are you on sleeping pills now? Do they help?
- What “side effects” have you noticed?
- Are you scared to be on them forever?
Comment below!
