Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD
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Free Initial Consultation - Call Now (954) 448-1515 CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPAIRED SLEEP, HEALTH & LONGEVITY By Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD Failure to even consider, evaluate, assess and treat develpmental alterations in sleep quality is a common error in standard clinical medicine. Dozens of factors are responsible for lack of youthful and rehabilitating sleep. Reasons for impaired sleep may include 1. Caffeine use 2. Various hormone declines including elevations in serum cortisol (stress hormone) at night 3. Aging 4. Diet 5. Poor sleep hygience (sleeping with TV on, etc.) The roots of much pathology later experienced may come from impairments in quality and magnitude of sleep. Sleep debt aggravates and contributes to development of disease ranging from marginal, mild, moderate or severe patterns of symptoms. A reactive disease based approach to medicine only considers you when a disease has ripened for proper diagnosis. It does not look backward at contributing causes, including sleep impairment over a number of years. So sleep investigation is ignored and invisible to the physician. He would unlikely never order a cortisol test to see if the cortisol curve was inverted (i.e. hig at night, low during the day) or check hormone levels that may relate to sleep quality;. So welcome to the invisible illness...........IMPAIRED SLEEP.. Part of my work is to investigate aspects of this in relation to a more prospective, proactive working model to save the patients from the cumulative aspects of sleep debt and sleep impairment. Free Initial Consultation - Call Now (954) 448-1515 RONALD B. KEYS, JD, PhD CLINICAL & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD 4047 Peters Road Plantation, Florida, 33317-4537 USA 954-448-1515 primary email: rkeysphd@brainlink.com secondary email: rkeysphd@gmail.com secondary email: rkeysphd@yahoo.com by pre-arrangements for voice/text chat: Mostly, Dr. Keys works as a Consulting PhD Doctor, usually from a distance, with and through a proper local anchor physician to order blood work. Advanced treatment protocols may develop from the advanced blood chemistries he requests. If you have no local doctor, Dr. Keys finds one through an affiliate physician network. His work is global, oftetimes involving patients from other countries as well as all over the continental USA. There are many tests and treatments to help people; Oftentimes, anchor physicians are not familiar or comfortable with them. Dr. Keys teaches and helps to direct individual patients AND their physicians with laboratory-work for these treatment options. This is measured work and clinical biochemistry. Opinion evidence standards are not employed here since this is a measured and laboratory-based or empirical study of the patient. Numbers are sought from the results of these tests that, usually, "...jump up and grab you..." that dictate what is needed and how much. Patient-advocacy is frequently involved to get advanced and necessary clinical biochemistries ordered and to help interpret them in filed reports..Chat room capabilities in voice or text, besides email, may be employed. This may include conference calls online. In a perfect world, if your physician knew everything, people like Dr. Keys would not exist. Physicians themselves are caught frequently in the traps of their own standards of care that may be very limited in many cases. Methods used by Dr. Keys are rational, scientific and disciplined. DISCLAIMER: Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD is not a physican. He acts here, when hired, only as a consulting PhD doctor. Any information offered on this site is intended for prevention and education. It is the responsibility of your anchor doctor or chosen physician to diagnose and treat diseases through their medical licenses. By using this web site you agree that you will seek professional medical advice from your doctor before using any of the information presented on this web site. All tests are ordered through your physician, only, and not Dr. Keys. Most jurisdictions require that an attending physician is required by law to take patient and family history, conduct a physical examination of the patient and to order tests appropriate and necessary. As an online consultant, he cannot do these things required together, as a whole, as a practice of medicine. Any emergencies should only be handled in a hospital emergency room or by your physician. |