Adequate sleep plays a key part in a healthy lifestyle and benefits your heart, weight, mind and more.
Yet millions of people don’t get enough sleep and suffer from a lack of it. More than 40 percent of adults experience daytime sleepiness severe enough to interfere with their daily activities at least a few times a month. Oftentimes we hear that we need at least 8 hours of sleep a night, but everyone’s individual sleep needs vary. Some people can get 6 hours of sleep and not feel sleepy or drowsy while others can’t perform at their peak unless they have slept 10 hours.
Adequate sleep improves your memory. If you are trying to learn a new language or pick up new skills, you will perform better after sleep. Getting enough sleep also curbs inflammation, which lowers blood levels of inflammatory proteins that are linked to increased heart attack risk and high blood pressure. Adequate sleep also sharpens attention, helps you maintain a healthy body weight and to lose more fat during a diet, lowers stress, provides emotional stability and decreases anxiety.
Healthy body, healthy mind, happy soul.