Rest

If you’re like half of all adults, you may not be sleeping well and not getting the right amount of sleep.  Today’s fast paced society can make sleep seem like a luxury, not a need, but this is simply not true:  you nee quality sleep for good health.  Sleep deprivation affects your health and well being, physically, mentally, and socially.

Sleep benefits:

Immune system:  Sleep is essential to the immune system.  Without adequate sleep, the immune system becomes weak, and the entire body becomes vulnerable to infection and disease.

Nervous system:  Sleep is a time of rest and repair to neurons. Neurons are the freeways of the nervous system that carry out both voluntary commands, like moving your arm, and involuntary commands, like breathing and digestive processes.

Hormone release:  Many hormones, substances produced to trigger or regulate particular body functions, are timed to release during sleep or right before sleep.  Growth hormones, for example, are released during sleep, vital to growing children but also for restorative processes like muscle repair and healing.

Signs you may be suffering from sleep deprivation include:

• Difficulty waking up in the AM

• Increased clumsiness

• Poor performance in school, on the job, or in sports

• Difficulty making decisions

• Falling asleep during work or class

• Getting sick frequently

• Feeling especially moody or irritated

• Weight gain

Chronic sleep deprivation is also thought to cause long term changes to the body, which contribute to increased risk for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and shortened life span.

Quotes:

Sleep is the chief restorer of life’s feast.  ~ Shakespeare

Fatigue has a larger share in the promotion and transmission of
disease than any other single condition you can name. ~James Pagent, MD

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