How sleep is good for your health

 Interesting facts about sleep!

• Within 5 minutes of walking up, 50% of your dream is forgotten.

• Sleep deprivation will kill you more quickly than food deprivation.

• Research shows you I'll sleep better during a new moon and worse during a full moon.

• The record for the longest period without sleep is 11 days.

Here I'll mention the recommended amount of sleep for you should sleep per day

Age Group	The amount of sleep required
Newborns	14 to 17 hours of sleep per day
12 months	10 hours at night and 4 hours of nap sleep per day
2 years	11 to 12 hours at night and 1 to 2 hours of nap sleep
3 to 5 years	10 to 13 hours of sleep per day
6 to 13 years	9 to 11 hours of sleep per day
14 to 17 years	8 to 10 hours of sleep per day
Adults	7 to 9 hours of sleep per day

Importance of Sleep

    Sleep plays a major role in good health. Getting enough good sleep at the right times can help to protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life and safety. During sleep, your body will work to support healthy brain function and maintain your physical health. In children, sleep helps in growth and development.

Here below I'll mention about the benefits of good sleep

Sleep helps to keep your heart healthy 

    Heart attacks and strokes are more likely to occur during the early morning hours, which because of sleep interacts with the blood vessels. Lack of sleep is associated with high blood pressure and cholesterol, which are the risk factors of heart disease. Your heart will be healthy and good if you get enough off good sleep. For the Adults have a good sleep for 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night.

Sleep helps to reduce stress

    When your body lacks sleep then your body goes into a state of stress. Your body's functions will be on a high alert, which causes high blood pressure and your body will automatically produce the stress hormones. High blood pressure increases your risk of heart attack and stroke, and the stress hormones will make you harder to fall asleep, So make yourself relax, keep your mind free and reduce your stress.

Sleep helps to improve your memory

    Researchers have not yet understood why we sleep and dream, but they have found that good sleep plays an important role in the process of memory consolidation. During sleep, your body may be at rest, but your brain is busy in processing your day, making connections between events, sensory input, feelings and memories. Deep sleep is very important for your brain to make memories and getting more good quality sleep will help you to remember and process things better.

Sleep might help you to lose weight

    Researchers have found that people who sleep fewer hours per night will be overweight or obese. Lack of sleep impacts the balance of hormones in your body and that will affect your appetite. The hormones ghrelin and leptin will regulate appetite, but if there is a lack of sleep then the hormones will be disturbed. So if you want to maintain or lose weight, you must have proper or adequate sleep on a regular basis. To lose weight good sleep is also a huge part.

Sleep helps the body to repair by itself 

    Sleep is a time for relaxation of your body but at the same time, your body cells will work hard in repairing damage caused by stress, ultraviolet rays and to any other harmful exposure. During sleep time your cells will produce more protein and these protein molecules form the building blocks for cells, allowing them to repair the damaged one. So sleep plays a vital role to make your body healthy by repairing the damaged cells and by repairing the damaged cells then your body will automatically have the immunity power to fight against the diseases.

    The above mentioned are some of the importance of sleep and I hope this information will be helpful for you all.

Reference: Health magazine