Friday 18 August 2017

Why you should get adequate sleep every night

Sleep makes you feel better, but its benefits goes far beyond just banishing under-eye circles. The amount of sleep you get a night invest a lot in your day to come.
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Here are benefits of getting a good amount of sleep:

1. Sleep improves your memory:
Researchers have found out that sleep play am important role in the process called memory consolidation. During sleep your body may be resting, but you brain is busy processing your day, making connections between events, sensory inputs, feelings and memory. A good sleep is a very important time for your brain to make memories and links, and getting more quality sleep will help you remember and process things better.
 In other words if you’re trying to learn something new—whether  it's a new language or a new tennis swing—you’ll perform better after sleeping.

2. Adequate sleep prevents obesity:
 Poor sleep is strongly linked toweight gain. People with short sleep duration tend to weigh significantly more than those who get adequate amount of sleep. In fact, short sleep duration is one of the strongest risk factors for obesity.
 If you are trying to lose weight, getting quality sleep is absolutely crucial.
 Watching your weight can be as simple as getting a good night's sleep. Lack of sleep can make you put on weight by drastically slowing your metabolism down.
 Researchers suggested getting plenty of sleep might prevent weight gain.

3. A good sleep reduces stress:
When it comes to our health stress and sleep are nearly one and the same—and both can affect cardiovascular health. If you're body lacks adequate amount of sleep, it goes into a state of stress. Stress puts the body system on high alert which causes high blood pressure and the production of stress hormones. High blood pressure increases your risk of heart attack and stroke, stress hormones makes it harder to fall asleep.   Sleep can definitely reduce levels of stress, and with that people can have better control of their blood pressure.
More relaxation techniques should also be observed to counteract the effect of stress.

4. Good Sleep Can Maximize Athletic Performance: 
Sleep has been shown to enhance athletic performance. In a study on basket ball players, longer sleep was shown to significantly improve speed, accuracy, reaction times, and mental wellbeing.
 Less sleep duration has also been associated with poor exercise performance and functional limitation in elderly women. A study from researchers found that poor sleep was linked to slower walking, lower grip strength, and difficulty in performing independent activities.

5. Reduces depression:
Mental health issues, such as depression, are strongly linked to poor sleep quality and sleeping disorders.
  Sleeping brings about many of the chemicals in your body, including serototin. People with setototin deficiency are more likely to suffer from depression.
  You can help to prevent depression by getting the right amount of sleep of about 7 to 9 hours a day. A good night’s sleep can really help a moody person decrease their anxiety. You get more emotional stability with good sleep.

6. Reduced heart attacks and stroke:
Sleep quality and duration can have a major effect on the risk of drive chronic diseases, including heart disease.
Heart diseases and stroke are most likely to occur in the morning hours, which is oftenly due to the way sleep interacts with the blood vessels. Lack of sleep has been associated with worsening of blood pressure and cholesterol, which are risks factors for heart disease and stroke. Your health will remain healthy if you get sleep good between 7 to 9 hours a day.

7. Longer livespan:
Sleep also affects quality of life. Regularly sleeping less than you should is associated with a shorter lifespan, although it is not clear whether little sleep is the cause, or an effect of other illnesses.(illness also affects sleeping pattern) Studies have found people who routinely sleep for fewer than 6 hours a night have a higher risk of dying sooner than people of a similar age who sleep between 7 to 9 hours a night.

8. Reduces risk of inflammatory:
Increased stress hormone caused by lack of sleep raises the level of inflammation in your body. Inflammation is linked to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, and premature aging risking bad health condition like cancer and diebetes.
Inflammation is thought to make the body deteriorate as we age. This can be curbed by getting a good amount of sleep.

9. Sleep helps the body repair itself:
Sleep is a time to relax, but it's also a time during which the body is at work repairing damages caused by stress, ultraviolet rays and other harmful exposure. Your body cells produce more protein when you are asleep. These protein produced are in charge for forming the body blocks for cells, showing them to repair damages.

10. Good sleep improves you immune function:

Even a small loss of sleep has been shown to impair immune function, lack of sleep can suppress your immune system, which makes you more vulnerable to infections.
On a large 2 weeks study observed the development of the common cold after giving people nasal drops with the virus that causes colds.They found that those who slept less than 7 hours were almost three times more likely to develop a cold than those who slept 7 hours or more.
  "Night time isn't the only time to shut your eyes. Napping during the day is an effective, refreshing alternative to caffeine that is good for your overall health and can help you to be more productive. A study of some Greek adult showed that people who took nap at work sore much lower level of stress. Napping also improves your mood."

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