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 betwe...