Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy: The Drug-Free Treatment for Chronic Insomnia You Haven't Tried

If you’re not getting seven to nine hours of good, restorative sleep each night, know that millions of others are tossing and turning in bed right along with you. In fact, 70 million Americans have a sleep disorder, including 12% of Americans who have been diagnosed with chronic insomnia.

If you feel like you’ve exhausted your options and sleep still doesn't come easily for you, it’s time for you to explore the exciting new avenue of magnetic e-resonance therapy (MeRT).

At Braincare Performance Center - Cardiff, our team specializes in this exciting new approach to brain health, and we use MeRT to address a wide range of conditions including chronic insomnia.

Let’s take a look at how this drug-free and noninvasive sleep therapy works.

A quick word about chronic insomnia

The definition of chronic insomnia is difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep at least three nights a week for three months or longer. And millions of Americans meet this description.

The health consequences of chronic sleep loss extend far beyond daytime fatigue and lack of energy and include:

Depression
Anxiety
A decline in cognitive function, such as poor concentration and forgetfulness
Obesity
Cardiovascular disease, such as high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease
Poor immune health
Metabolic issues
Substance use disorders (self-medication)

And the list goes on. Our point here is to underscore the importance of getting good restorative sleep each night, which can boost your health and wellness on every level.

Getting back to sleep with MeRT

A lot of the time, our patients say that, as soon as their heads hit the pillow, their brains take off in a million different directions, which makes sleep impossible. Or, they fall asleep easily enough, but somewhere in the wee hours of the morning, they wake with a buzzing brain and can’t fall back asleep.

Frustratingly, sleep has more to do with your brain than the fatigue in your body, which is why MeRT works so well: we target your brain.

More specifically, with MeRT, we first map out your brain activity with a quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), which gives us a peek at how your brain functions — which areas are overly active and which areas might be dormant.

From there, we create a MeRT treatment plan that targets the areas of your brain that have to do with sleep. And by target, we mean we deliver rapid magnetic impulses into specific areas of your brain to promote healthier neural activity.

Going a step further in this explanation, with MeRT, our goal is to improve the quality of your sleep by increasing your slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep.

To give you an idea about the use of MeRT for chronic insomnia, one meta-analysis of 36 trials from 28 eligible studies concluded that MeRT is not only an effective therapy, but it's a safe one, too.

Undergoing MeRT for chronic insomnia

While MeRT is helping people to get back to good quality sleep, it’s also allowing them to reduce their reliance on medications. MeRT is not only drug-free, it’s noninvasive as the magnetic impulses travel harmlessly through your skull.

In most cases, patients benefit from an initial, intensive series of MeRT sessions and, once we’ve improved your sleep, you can come back for maintenance treatments.

So, if you’re sick and tired of being tired, we invite you to explore whether MeRT is right for your chronic insomnia. To set that in motion, please call our office in Cardiff, California, at 858-306-1070 or schedule an appointment online today.