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The Importance of Sleep

How important is sleep? Let's use direct observation to answer this question.

How do you feel when you haven't gotten enough sleep? Peppy and energetic? How about when day after day you wake up and you don't feel rested? Do you feel like taking on the world?

The importance of sleep becomes pretty obvious when you look at how you feel when you haven't gotten enough good sleep.

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We don't need to know that rats who generally live 2 - 3 years die within 3 weeks when deprived of sleep to understand how important sleep is to our bodies and health. But it does emphasize the importance of sleep!

There's plenty of research on the stages of sleep, brain wave activity during sleep and how the eyeballs roll around rapidly during certain stages of sleep. But none of it, at least that I've found, is really useful in evaluating the importance of sleep. So we aren't going to bother with that type of information.

Plain ol' direct observation tells us that sleep is important because we can't function very well without it.

Sleep is the time we rest so that the body can rejuvenate and recharge. The body needs sleep and rest time to build and repair itself. Look at the fact that babies can sleep up to 20 hours a day, and children need 10 - 12 hours of sleep every day on average. What does that tell you? The importance of sleep is obvious when we look at how it's necessary for physical growth and health!

Many folks want to learn how to sleep better because sleep is so essential to our mental and physical well being. With our modern lifestyles, good sleep seems harder to come by.

One thing that definitely affects sleep is a certain hormone that your body produces called melatonin. Learn the relationship of melatonin and sleep and you just might enhance your nightly pillow-fest!

Sleep (or lack of sleep) has a direct impact on your health and energy levels. No doubt you have observed that yourself! The main factors that determine wellness or illness in addition to sleep are:

Those are the primary elements of health and they are all related. For example, if you have poor nutrition or lack sufficient physical activity, the quality of your sleep will suffer. If you're constantly stressed out, that's a great sleep killer!


You know the importance of sleep! If you want to improve the quality of your sleep, start by checking out the information on this site about nutrition, exercise and stress management, since those are the things you need to address and improve along with your sleep habits!

Cheers!

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