UNBELIEVABLE BENEFITS THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW ARE OBTAINED FROM SLEEPING
Did I just say, positivity obtained from sleeping? I suppose my positive energy is flowing through my writing. Once you begin thinking positively, this is part of the side effects, you spread positivity and the good vibe to everything,anything and everyone. Keeping up with my month’s goal of being positive in every situation. I call it my February goals.
You might be wondering where am I getting so much energy. Truthfully, my energy comes from something we all do daily, sleeping. Ha! Sleeping, yes. I meant that. You will be surprised but did you know getting the right amount of sleep is very beneficial. Let me break it down for you the benefits of sleeping.
Weight loss
Struggling to lose weight everyday and nothing comes from your efforts? Have you had a look at your sleep routine? We often ignore the fact that sleeping is an essential entity in our journey to lose weight. Sleep deprivation leads to an increase in hormonal levels which leads to an increased appetite. This results in an increase in the amount of calories we take in. We all for sure cannot resist the food on the table when our appetite has sky-rocketed. Next time you feel your appetite is not sparing you, have a look at your sleep patterns, you could be getting less sleep.
Increased Brain Productivity and Concentration
This is absolutely true for those who have tried it. Sleep ensures that we have time to rest. According to research it states that as we sleep, the brain undergoes various processes including processing of our thoughts to retain what is stored in the short-term memory and transferred to the long-term memory enhancing productivity of the brain once we wake up. Having a good sleep helps to improve memory performance.Sleep activates our creativity and winning spirit. It’s interesting knowing how something as simple as sleeping can be beneficial. Share with us what your experience is whenever you get back to working after a nap or sleeping. How productive are you compared to when you were exhausted?
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Prevents and Alleviates Depression and Stress
Sleep helps regulate the cholesterol level within our bodies therefore reducing stress and depression within the body. Sleep is said to be the cause of depression while also depression also causes lack of sleep. To ensure the latter does not happen, we all need to get enough sleep. According to psychologists, they advice the best way to treat depression is actually by getting someone to sleep. Sleep should not be substituted for long working hours during the week and sleeping more during weekends as this does not reduce depression levels.
Sleep Curbs Inflammation
Inflammation is the cause to many other diseases such as stroke, high blood pressure, arthritis, heart disease. Lack of enough sleep leads to higher levels of inflammatory proteins in the body as compared to those who sleep for more than six hours. This leads to the mentioned diseases above such as diabetes type 2 due to reduction in insulin sensitivity within the body.
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Sleep Increases Our Life Span
I had to save this for the last. It is no doubt that sleep boosts our life span. Adequate amount of sleep boosts health and immunity of our body leading to improved health. According to research conducted on a number of twins for over 22 years, it was found that those who slept less than seven hours or eight hours per night had an increased risk of death as compared to the others. Hilarious right! We often run to get life boosters to make us look young and increase our life span whereas we have the medication right with us.
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Let us all try to adhere to sleep routines to obtain the benefits of sleeping, as we get to make our lives more productive. Share your views on what your experiences are when deprived of adequate sleep and when you get the required amount of sleep. If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe to our newsletter for more of them.
Wow, didn’t know about weight loss. Very nice information. Thanks.
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Thank you Meltblogs, I am glad you have learnt from the post.
I so agree. I’m a morning person. So if I go to bed late, it really makes a huge difference on how I feel and behave the next day.
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Thanks so much Emma. I can imagine how sleeping one hour late for you could affect your day’s schedule. But I believe in having a good sleeping routine at all times.