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From the Ted Talk by Dan Kwartler: What causes insomnia?

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However, some long-term conditions like respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal pbmeolrs, and many others can overpower fatigue. And as sleepless nhitgs pile up, the bedroom can start to carry associations of restless nights wracked with anxiety. Come bedtime, insomniacs are stressed. So stressed their brains hijack the stress response system, flooding the body with fight-flight-or-freeze chemicals. Cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormones course through the bloodstream, ircsnineag hreat rate and blood pressure, and jolting the body into horypuaesral. In this condition, the biarn is hunting for potential thraets, making it impossible to ignore any slight discomfort or nighttime niose.

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However, some long-term conditions like respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal ________, and many others can overpower fatigue. And as sleepless ______ pile up, the bedroom can start to carry associations of restless nights wracked with anxiety. Come bedtime, insomniacs are stressed. So stressed their brains hijack the stress response system, flooding the body with fight-flight-or-freeze chemicals. Cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormones course through the bloodstream, __________ _____ rate and blood pressure, and jolting the body into ____________. In this condition, the _____ is hunting for potential _______, making it impossible to ignore any slight discomfort or nighttime _____.

Solution


  1. heart
  2. nights
  3. problems
  4. noise
  5. increasing
  6. threats
  7. hyperarousal
  8. brain

Original Text


However, some long-term conditions like respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and many others can overpower fatigue. And as sleepless nights pile up, the bedroom can start to carry associations of restless nights wracked with anxiety. Come bedtime, insomniacs are stressed. So stressed their brains hijack the stress response system, flooding the body with fight-flight-or-freeze chemicals. Cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormones course through the bloodstream, increasing heart rate and blood pressure, and jolting the body into hyperarousal. In this condition, the brain is hunting for potential threats, making it impossible to ignore any slight discomfort or nighttime noise.

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Important Words


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  2. anxiety
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  6. blood
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  20. gastrointestinal
  21. heart
  22. hijack
  23. hormones
  24. hunting
  25. hyperarousal
  26. ignore
  27. impossible
  28. increasing
  29. insomniacs
  30. jolting
  31. making
  32. nights
  33. nighttime
  34. noise
  35. overpower
  36. pile
  37. potential
  38. pressure
  39. problems
  40. rate
  41. respiratory
  42. response
  43. restless
  44. sleepless
  45. slight
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  47. stress
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  49. system
  50. threats
  51. wracked