Keeping your schedule full, your paste fast and always hassling is the theme of the average person today. We have this need of constantly being busy. Always placing sleep at the bottom of your list of priorities and surviving on 4-6 hours of sleep is like a fashion statement. I’ve been there myself and didn’t realise how much the lack of rest affected me until my body hit the panic bottom.
The classic ‘no sleep’ day
I’m sure you had one of those days yourself. A day feeling like a walking zoombie that wants all the sweet and salty food there is. However, lack of sleep does not only affect your day, it’s also linked to more serious health issues such as:
- Infection
- Insulin resistance
- Weight gain or obesity
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cancer
- Arthritis
- Mood disorders
- Increase risk of accidents and injuries
- Decline in cognitive function
- Increased anxiety
As you cansee living life with the motto ‘sleeping is for the dead’ can be more harmfulto your health then what you may think. Plus the benefits that comes with agood night of quality sleep is far more appealing!
The benifits from 7-8 hrs of quality sleep
- Processing information
- Improving and open for learning
- Emotional healing
- Internal organs rest and recover time. Also tissue repair and muscle growth
- Hormones that helps regulate apprtite control, stress, growth, metabolism and
- Memory consolidation
- Increase energy which helps making better choises such as training, eating well and self care
- Strengthen immune system
- Heighten alertness & focus
- Improve mood
- Increase libido
Ask yourself, how is your sleep? Are you getting enough hours each night? How does a bad night of sleep effect your day? How can you improve the quility of your sleep? Most important, are you ready to thrive each day after some good rest?
If you need help in improving your sleep, please reach out to me. I would love to see how I can help you!