Health benefits of getting enough sleep

  

Date Posted: 3/27/2012 12:53:51 AM

Posted By: sashoo  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 382

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Sleep maintains the health of your heart:
Heart related diseases will be so minimal to people who sleep between 7-9 hours a day. You see here, healthy sleep has a way of improving on your blood vessels. Lack of enough sleep will just worsen your blood vessels' activity.

It makes one more alert:
You may not realize this, but, sleep will renew your lost day's energy, and when you wake up, you will feel active and strong again.

Sleep helps a lot to repair your body - your worn out muscles and tissues:
It is through sleep that our bodies' physiological process is uninterfered with; therefore, giving a chance for our bodies to have their body cells repaired. More protein that helps in body building is produced when one sleeps.

Sleep boosts your memory levels:
Ever wondered why you dream while asleep? When you sleep your body rests, but your brain remains active so as to link between events, feelings, memories and so on, that had happened during the day. This entire process will only help sharpen your memory.

Sleep helps reduce sress levels:
Yes! By not sleeping, you will send your body into a kind of stress state. Stress state, because the brain has got no time to relax. You keep overworking your mind and, since the brain controls the whole body, the entire body feels so fatigued and, thus, stressed.

Sleep lowers depression levels:
A chemical called serotonin is produced while we sleep. This chemical is known to suppress depression levels. What this means is that people who do not get enough sleep are deficient of this chemical, hence, are more prone to depression.

With enough sleep, mood swings are reduced:
In most cases you will realise that people who do not get enough sleep tend to be moody, first thing in the morning. They develop a habit of lushing

at everyone without cause. Enough sleep will just help avoid this!

Lack of sleep will abnormally increase your appetite:
Have you ever lost sleep? All you felt like was keep eating and eating. This is because people tend to compare the night to how they eat during the day. For instance, if they stayed awake for four hours, they will tend to think like, "It is four hours and we have not eaten anything?" This is how one will find themselves eating and eating, whenever they are deprived of sleep.

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