Why sleep is important

Sleep plays a vital role in your health and well-being in your life. Sufficient sleep has many advantages such as physical and mental health, quality of life, and protection of personal safety.

Regular and high quality sleep is very important for brain function, mental health, physical health, daytime performance, and personal safety.

To restore your sleep balance, you need at least two consecutive nights of unlimited quality sleep.

When we sleep, our bodies take a rest - save energy and lower blood pressure, heart rate, breathing and body temperature. At the same time, our brains remain active - remember, restore the mental function during the day, and carry out the process leading to the growth of the body

There are five stages of sleep, from stage 1 (light sleep) to stage 3 and 4 (deep sleep) to stage 5, called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Understand what happens during these different stages of sleep

Restore children's tissues to promote growth (both growth hormone released during sleep)

If you do not sleep on a regular basis, these processes will be interrupted and your risk of long-term health problems will increase.

The type and duration of sleep in your life will change. How much sleep is needed depends on the person, but the table below provides a general guide.

If you do not have enough sleep, sleep disturbance increases. The total amount of insomnia is called sleeping debt. For example, if you lose 2 hours of sleep per night, a sleeping debt of 14 hours will occur after 1 week.

Damage caused by sleep deprivation may be immediate, for example because it can not concentrate and react quickly. It may take several years for other effects to occur, such as increased risk of chronic health problems.

In young people, the lack of fine sleep directly affects their health, development, behavior, and the ability to interact and make friends with their colleagues.

Taking enough sleep is like saving money: If you sleep from your account, you must return it to restore the balance - else to catch up There is no way. Night sleep deprivation leads to sleep deprivation and your performance and drowsiness gradually worsen

As this happens, your attention, learning ability, and athletic ability will be affected. To restore your sleep balance, you need at least two consecutive nights of unlimited quality sleep.

National Sleep Foundation's Sleep Period Recommendation: Summary of Methods and Results Hirshkowitz, Max et al. Sleeping Health: National Sleep Foundation Journal, Volume 1, No. 1, 40-43

I will provide useful tips on how to find a good sleep after deeply exploring why sleep is important to our health and spiritual abilities. An expensive mattress is not necessary. At the age of 27, I spent 33% of my time, sleeping for about nine years. Let's drill down why and what happened in the last nine years. Our bodies remove metabolite waste and toxins from the cells through the lymphatic system, the tissue and organ system of our circulatory system. The protagonist of the system is our lymphocyte. Our brain has a system similar to "garbage collector" called lymphatic system.

Sleep is brain time to process, construct, restore, crop, and preserve new neurons of information. This is also a very important time for your brain's lymphatic system Your brain has a lymphatic system that drives out toxins and disappears from the fierce activity of the day. This happens to rest you, revitalize, and activate you. Cortisol also plays an important role in controlling our circadian rhythm, which is a natural circadian rhythm that causes sleep and wakefulness within 24 hours. As a secondary attention, too much cortisol will make our body more resistant to insulin. This means that our cells "settle" insulin, which leads to accumulation of inflammation and subsequent health problems.

In the last article, I talked about the importance of sleep. Sleep is essential to our physical and mental recovery. In general, both sleep and rest are necessary to reduce stress levels and cortisol levels in the body. But perhaps its most important function is to regulate proper hormone production, muscle tissue repair, and brain regeneration. If you can not control stress well, you often have mood disorders, some of which are difficult to treat. Obsession, addiction, and bad eating habits are just a few of them. This is because the high level of cortisol in the body breaks the balance of all other hormones. Most mental and emotional disorders are the result of low levels of dopamine and serotonin.