What Mum Didn"t Tell You About Sleep
Sleep is needed for the body and brain to rest, recover but also for processing impressions.
Sleep is also important for growth during our childhood.
Around the clock, but especially during sleep, a growth hormone is formed in our body.
Many of the body's basic functions are dependent on sleep, such as bone strength and immune system.
As an adult we normally need between 6 and 9 hours of sleep.
Lack of sleep will effect us in different ways.
I am not as good at making the right choices when I am tired.
The only times I skip my morning run is when I have slept badly, or very little.
I also find it easy to make up excuses for eating chocolate and drinking soft drinks, instead of my regular choice of example juice or diet drinks and fruit.
I defend my choice by thinking it will help me wake up a bit, but all it does is have a negative impact on my blood sugar.
Have anyone really died from lack of sleep? I am not sure, but I remember reading a book a long time ago called, start living and stop worrying, or something like that.
There was a chapter on sleeping and how a soldier got shot which made it impossible for him to fall a sleep.
The point was that he lived a healthy life.
As far as I know the sleep function is not fully understood, there is much still unclear, but it is believed that the reason we sleep is that the body needs a balance between different processes, and that sleep is one type of process.
Too little sleep leads to a negative impact on the body's metabolism similar to type 2 diabetes and could be a risk factor for obesity.
Lack of sleep also leads to a depressed immune system, and even learning is affected by lack of sleep.
Sleep is important for us to remember what we have learned.
So how do we get good sleep? As little light as possible and a comfortable sleeping environment works for me.
I always keep the AC on to cool the room down as well.
It also depends on how long you have been up and where and when you last slept.
This means that you can sleep better by staying up longer than usual.
However, you can not control how long you should sleep.
It depends both on how long you been awake and how well you slept the last time.
Sleep is also important for growth during our childhood.
Around the clock, but especially during sleep, a growth hormone is formed in our body.
Many of the body's basic functions are dependent on sleep, such as bone strength and immune system.
As an adult we normally need between 6 and 9 hours of sleep.
Lack of sleep will effect us in different ways.
I am not as good at making the right choices when I am tired.
The only times I skip my morning run is when I have slept badly, or very little.
I also find it easy to make up excuses for eating chocolate and drinking soft drinks, instead of my regular choice of example juice or diet drinks and fruit.
I defend my choice by thinking it will help me wake up a bit, but all it does is have a negative impact on my blood sugar.
Have anyone really died from lack of sleep? I am not sure, but I remember reading a book a long time ago called, start living and stop worrying, or something like that.
There was a chapter on sleeping and how a soldier got shot which made it impossible for him to fall a sleep.
The point was that he lived a healthy life.
As far as I know the sleep function is not fully understood, there is much still unclear, but it is believed that the reason we sleep is that the body needs a balance between different processes, and that sleep is one type of process.
Too little sleep leads to a negative impact on the body's metabolism similar to type 2 diabetes and could be a risk factor for obesity.
Lack of sleep also leads to a depressed immune system, and even learning is affected by lack of sleep.
Sleep is important for us to remember what we have learned.
So how do we get good sleep? As little light as possible and a comfortable sleeping environment works for me.
I always keep the AC on to cool the room down as well.
It also depends on how long you have been up and where and when you last slept.
This means that you can sleep better by staying up longer than usual.
However, you can not control how long you should sleep.
It depends both on how long you been awake and how well you slept the last time.
