Category: Sleep
Counting Z’s Isn’t Just for Sleeping Beauty
The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reports that “1 in 3 adults don’t get enough sleep.” Why does it matter if you’d rather devote hours toward binge-watching Netflix and diving headfirst into the black hole of social media than sleep? An article entitled The Unstoppable Power of a Good Night’s Sleep reports that sleep deprivation leads you to:
- Be “more stressed, creating a higher risk of developing hypertension.”
- Be “more likely to experience weight gain.”
- “Have a higher risk of developing cancer.”
Benefits of Sleep
The before-mentioned article also points out how great sleep, which includes both the right quantity and quality of sleep, benefits you. These benefits include the following:
- “Encourages a healthy microbiome in [your] gut.”
- “Promotes the ideal state for [your] cardiovascular system.”
- “Acts as ‘overnight therapy’– soothing painful memories and inspiring creativity.”
- “Creates a better learning environment for our brain to memorize, remember, and make logical decisions.”
When health is a topic of conversation, it’s typical for fitness and food to roll off the tongue. But what about sleep?
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