Is lack of SLEEP causing you problems?

THE ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SLEEP

1.    Normal Sleep Requirements Age and condition	Average amount of sleep per day
5–12 years	9–11 hours
Adolescents	9-10
Adults, including elderly	7–8 (+) hours
Pregnant women	8(+) hours

2.    Sleep debt

Sleep debt is the "time gap" created in the body, due to difference in-between perfect sleep and not getting enough sleep. 

For example If  an adult who needs 8hrs of perfect sleep just gets 6hrs, then his body is deficient by 2hrs. 

As the debt keeps increasing, the body requires more and more energy to perform regular functions. This prompts the brain to "shut-down" many processes, leading to emotional, psychological and physical fatigue.
Over-eating, increased smoking/drinking, body pains, headaches, recurrent cold-cough are examples of increased body energy needs leading to shut-down of basic mind-body functions.

3.    Body Restoration

One of the major functions of sleep is to provide the body with a peaceful environment. It’s during this time that the body takes care of repairing, fighting and restoring any process outside the normal functioning.

Test have proven that decreased amount of “sound and restorative sleep”, leads to:

a.     Increased body pains

b.   Decreased body immunity - recurrent illness like cold, cough, skin infections(acne), hair fall, etc.

c.     Decreased  healing of wounds

d.    Decreased production of essential hormones. 
e.  Decreased Sexual Performance.

4.    Memory

Extensive research has shown that lack of proper sleep, causes changes within the brain structure. 

Sign of brain structure changes is the inability to concentrate for longer periods, inability to take decisions at the same speed as earlier, problems remembering recent topics (like where things are kept, what was spoken a few hours ago, tasks at hand, etc). 
This causes a decrease in personal and professional performance of an individual.

5.    Dreaming

Dreams are extremely important for the proper functioning of the conscious and subconscious mind. They are an outlet of release of emotions and also can tell a lot about a person's future course of action. 
Lack of Proper sleep can induce negative dreaming patterns. These are not only disturbing to the conscious but also tend to induce negativity within life. 

Sleep is an essential body process, which majority of people neglect. Don't let your body-brain-mind suffer, get your problems cured today.


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