How important is sleep.Is it?
Current studies show that the average North American now gets between seven and seven and a half hours of sleep a night.How important is sleep?While asleep, you go through phases of sleep called rapid eye movement every 60 to 90 minutes throughout the night.During these phases, the brain is most active,and researchers believe it is performing some kind of self repair.Some experts say that when the sleep cycle is interrupted and sleep is lost,it has a cumulative effect on the body.Brain function is affected, which results inefficiency and a host of other physical ailments
Substances such as caffeine can be for the short term the chemical compound that signals the need to sleep .Yet our brain has a mechanism to cause sleep to occur when our body has not had enough, resulting in what have been called Micro-sleeps.According to The Toronto star," no matter what you happen to be doing, your sleep deprived brain will periodically go into the first stage of sleep for anywhere between ten seconds and just over a minute." Imagine driving a car at 50 kilometers an hour and experiencing a ten-second Micro-sleep. During that time, you would have Travelled more than the Lenght of a football field.Additionally, sacrificing needed sleep can weaken your immune system , for it is during sleep that the body produces T cells that fights against pathogens.During sleep, our body produces the hormone Leptin, which helps regulate appetite.Indeed the body needs sleep as much as it needs proper exercise and nutrition.
Is extra work robbing you of much needed sleep? How about anxieties of life and worries about what you have stored up for the future.The wise king Solomon once observed:" sweet is the sleep of the one serving, regardless of whether it is little or much that he eats;but the plenty belonging to the rich one is not permitting him to sleep".-Ecclesiastes 5:12
Substances such as caffeine can be for the short term the chemical compound that signals the need to sleep .Yet our brain has a mechanism to cause sleep to occur when our body has not had enough, resulting in what have been called Micro-sleeps.According to The Toronto star," no matter what you happen to be doing, your sleep deprived brain will periodically go into the first stage of sleep for anywhere between ten seconds and just over a minute." Imagine driving a car at 50 kilometers an hour and experiencing a ten-second Micro-sleep. During that time, you would have Travelled more than the Lenght of a football field.Additionally, sacrificing needed sleep can weaken your immune system , for it is during sleep that the body produces T cells that fights against pathogens.During sleep, our body produces the hormone Leptin, which helps regulate appetite.Indeed the body needs sleep as much as it needs proper exercise and nutrition.
Is extra work robbing you of much needed sleep? How about anxieties of life and worries about what you have stored up for the future.The wise king Solomon once observed:" sweet is the sleep of the one serving, regardless of whether it is little or much that he eats;but the plenty belonging to the rich one is not permitting him to sleep".-Ecclesiastes 5:12
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