Benefits Of A Good Sleep | Don't Mess With Your Body Clock
In this fast paced world, we often lose out on more important things due to lack of time.
I've realized that when we are engaged in an important work or if the mind is preoccupied with other activities, most often it is our sleep cycle that takes the hit.
We usually don’t seem to grasp the seriousness of sleep deprivation. Not until we slowly begin to see the adverse effects of lack of sleep after a period of time.
According to the NHLBI,
Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout our life. Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect our mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety.
Getting good sleep is as important as having a healthy diet or doing exercises.
There are several benefits of good sleep.
Here, I would like to list a few:
- Improves Concentration
Sleep is known to increase a person's concentration levels. A bad night's sleep can affect your activity for the upcoming day, while a good sleep will not only help you to concentrate better, but you will feel more lively and prepared to face the day.
A study found that short sleep can negatively impact some aspects of the brain function to a similar degree as alcohol intoxication.
- Enhances Mood
Do you feel happier when you've had a good night's sleep?
If you start losing more number of hours of sleep, it not only causes tiredness, but it may begin impacting your judgment skills, creative energy or even problem solving ability. You might begin to see mood fluctuations and it is likely that your stress levels may also become imbalanced.
- Improves Life Expectancy
Sleep has a direct link with the life expectancy of a person. People who sleep lesser number of hours a day, most likely will have a shorter lifespan.
Studies have found people who routinely sleep for fewer than six hours a night have a higher risk of dying sooner than people of a similar age who sleep for seven or eight hours a night.
- Improves Health
Getting a good sleep boosts your immune system, hence you are less likely to get ill. Clocking in less hours of sleep is know to increase the chance of acquiring chronic diseases, even a heart disease.
A study found that sleeping for fewer than seven hours a night increased the risk of catching a cold
- Improves Memory
Sleep is a period that allows the brain to process vital information it has acquired during the day. It leads to memory formation, which in turn has a direct link to our ability to remember things.
Sleep has several other advantages, like:
it helps you to maintain your figure, it allows you to have better sex, it makes you look healthier, and it even affects your social interaction.
So the next time you decide to sacrifice your sleep, remember:
over a period of time, these gaps in our necessary sleep cycle will lead to a much bigger impact than we would like!
Our body's biological clock is something we should not mess with. It is better that we start giving more importance to sleep when we still have the time to repair the damage that might have been caused to our body and health.
Thanks for reading! @jznsamuel
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So TRUE - all of these benefits, yet it can be harder than it sounds to get a "good" nights sleep. Got little kids? I do. That is one impediment. Using sleep medication of some sort such as typical OTC products, or "natural supplements" such as melatonin, chamomille, valerian etc? They may work but they do interfere with your natural sleeping process. Or worst of all - are you using benzodiazapam (valium, clonazapam, xanax etc) to get to sleep? If you are, you are probably very addicted to them and can not sleep without them. You are basically screwed in the "good" sleep department as they really interfere with quality sleep even though they knock you out - and they are damn near impossible to get off of. Or equally bad or even worse. Are you drinking a bottle of wine in the evening, or beer, or several cocktails to knock yourself out? This really messes up quality sleep. I will be honest and admit I am stuck in the Valium category, after years of insomnia, I was given diazapam from my general physician, and now I can't sleep without it. And I have little kids - I don't think I have had a truly "quality sleep" like children sleep for years. I am not happy about it and am working to taper off, but it is tough, you have to suffer through several nights with no sleep at all feeling miserable and wanting to kill yourself to kick this habit - so it lingers on. Ok I am rambling, but I believe in this day and age most people over the age of 35 have one or more of these "good sleep" impediments keeping them from being a healthy person who sleeps like a baby. I hope most of you out there are getting the kind of quality sleep we described here in this post. If you are keep it that way. If you are someone in my shoes, consider as am I, what your life situation is and how can you make some simple and healthy steps towards improving your sleep- and thereby GREATLY enhancing your quality of life. Thanks for this great post I have max upvoted it, following you and resteeming. And I will check out @ADSactly. Peace friends
thank you for sharing, it really is an eye-opener reading personal experiences. With kids around, yes sleep pattern goes for a toss! I am not able to get as much sleep as I would like, yes but I do realize now that I must try to improve my sleep pattern and quality :)
I guess I should get to sleep.
never the right time ;)
I endorse good sleeping... I need to get me some more of that ! (-:
sleep is my favorite activity too :)
Totally agree on this, only in the last couple of years have I realised the true value of getting a good amount of sleep every night. I was a late night partier/gamer so I was always up until the early hours, only realising the effect of this constant sleep deprivation once I had changed my habits.
Good post.
yes, we often get too caught up and fail to realize it. glad that you are back to a good sleep pattern :)
Great post agree with you.
thank you @maya7
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I guess I shouldn't expect to live much longer. Every day I sleep different hours. Usually 2-5 hours later then the prevous day and keeps cycling through. :(