The significance of Sleep for Your health

Sleep is a naturally occurring process in which the "sleeper" is a state of reduced or absent consciousness. Sensory activity is relatively suspended and the voluntary muscles of the body are largely inactive. Although the private sleeping has a decreased or inactive response to stimuli (depending on the degree), it is still not a state of hibernation or coma, which are both a much less active state. For instance, a quiet sound would not likely wake a sleeping individual. A loud sound probably would, but would not wake man in a coma or a hibernating animal. Sleep is also literally reversible, waking up is easy with a relatively mild stimuli whereas hibernation and coma are not so literally recovered from.

Ironically, as sleep is a state of low activity in many respects, it is a time of heightened anabolic (growth and rejuvenation) activity. This is where the body 'builds up' the varied systems of the body such as immune function, muscle increase and recovery, etc. This is the main presuppose that sleep is so prominent and why lack of it can be so debilitating. All mammals and birds sleep, but only some reptiles and even fish do.

Health

How much sleep you need depends on your age as well as who you are. Obviously children need more sleep than adults because their bodies are growing so much. The need for sleep also varies among individuals. Some people do fine with four hours per night while most of us need about eight. Regardless, you can tell if you are getting enough sleep by how you feel while the day. If you contact daytime fatigue or dysfunction (without help from Starbucks), then you are getting enough sleep.

It seems that people who description sleeping 6-7 hours per night have the lowest death rate, but interestingly enough, those who sleep more than eight hours per night are more likely to die. This may seem like getting eight hours may be dangerous for your health, but those who sleep a lot also tend to be individuals with depression or low socioeconomic status (less passage to health care, etc.).

Not getting enough sleep is dangerous for your health as is too much. The data is not in on why sleeping a lot is a problem, but it is understanding to be related more to the type of people that sleep too much (depressed, low economic status, etc.) than to the sleep itself. However, too diminutive sleep has been shown to double the risk of death by heart disease.

Sleep is only one of the things that is prominent to your health. Diet, exercise, sleep, and hydration are all important, but many people seem to not realize how prominent sleep is. Possibly staying up to watch Law and Order while you eat a vat of buttery popcorn may have something to do with your weight qoute (and its not just the popcorn)?

The significance of Sleep for Your health