I hope you're getting a full night's sleep!
Its very important for your health. It is during sleep when your body repairs and heals itself to start a fresh new day with new responsibilities.
Sleep is important for your body immunity as less sleep may mean low immunity which makes you prone to infections and viral diseases like common cold, fever, etc.
It is also important for your mind productivity for enhanced alertness.
Most of lifestyle diseases are caused due to less sleep like heart problems, lung problems, depression. Also with less sleep there is increase in inflammatory activity in our body. .
If you eat well and exercise regularly but don’t get at least seven hours of sleep every night, you may undermine all your other efforts.
Below are the prescribed hrs. to sleep according to the age:
•Older adults, 65+ years: 7-8 hours
•Adults, 26-64 years: 7-9 hours
•Young adults, 18-25 years: 7-9 hours
•Teenagers, 14-17 years: 8-10 hours
•School-age children, 6-13 years: 9-11 hours
•Preschool children, 3-5 years: 10-13 hours
•Toddlers, 1-2 years: 11-14 hours
•Infants, 4-11 months: 12-15 hours
•Newborns, 0-3 months: 14-17 hours
But a minimum of seven hours of sleep is a step in the right direction to improve your health.
6 hours is borderline and is the minimum sleep required. It is like a student passing a subject with minimal possible marks.
Sleeping any lesser can make you less intelligent, more prone to diseases and forgetful.
Adequate sleep is necessary to:
Stay Alert.
Good sleep allows your mind to regain focus and tackle those tricky mental challenges. It can also stimulate creativity.
Boost Memory.
Sleeping is the most important time to shape memories and make the connections between events, feelings and experiences. In fact, sleep is a requirement to form new learning and memory pathways in the brain.
Fight Infection.
Sleep is your body’s mechanism to ward off infection. When you don’t get enough, your immune system is weaker, making you more susceptible to illness.
Be Active.
Energy levels after healthy sleep are higher, and your mental awareness is more acute. Good sleep is also tied to improved athletic performance, including greater speed, agility and reflexes.
Replenish.
During sleep, your body repairs the damage caused by stress, ultraviolet rays and other harmful exposure, as well as muscle injuries and other traumas.
What are the health benefits of getting enough sleep?
There are a lot of benefits from getting full sleep such as:
1. It can help boost your immune system
2. Strengthen your heart
3. Getting enough sleep and rest improves your memory
4. It can help increase your productivity
5. Getting full sleep puts you in a better mood
6. Full sleep can help you prevent weight gain, etc
Getting enough sleep of 7 to 9 hours each night would make you healthier and may help prevent cancer, this is according to a report from Very Well Health.
