We are at our very best, and we are happiest,when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. - Earl Nightingale As simple and natural as it is,sleep is vital to our life and key to good health. Nobody can dispute that adequate sleep helps maintain a healthy heart,reduces stress,fights depression, and energizes your body for needed function. On the other hand,inadequate sleep at night robs your body system of its natural capacity to heal. Why? It is because naturally, your body system produces more protein during sleep...it is this process that facilitates the cells in your body to repair any decay or potential damage to your health. Of all the reasons to get a good night's sleep, protecting your heart might not be top of mind. Sleep duration has decreased 1.5 to 2 hours per night for individual in the last 50 years. But several recent studies show links between shortened sleep duration defined as less than 6 hours of sleep,and increased risk of heart disease. A 2011 European Heart Journal review of 15 medical studies involving almost 475,000 people found that short sleepers had a 48% increased risk of developing or dying from coronary heart disease (CHD) in a 7 to 25-year follow-up period and a 15% greater risk of developing or dying from stroke during this same time. Interestingly,long sleepers- those who averaged nine or more hours a night also showed a 38% increased risk of developing or dying from coronary heart disease and a 65% increased risk of stroke. SLEEP AND TESTOSTERONE Testosterone,a male hormone, is highest during sleep,and highest during the best part of sleep,known as REM sleep. REM sleep is Rapid Eye Movement, a time of your sleep you dream. The hormone starts rising when you go to bed and peaks in the morning at about dawn. That's why dawn is the most fertile time for a man,the best time to impregnate. You will spill the most sperm,and the best long-distance swimmers,at dawn. These all night hormone spikes are also why men will get multiple erections,lasting on average for fifteen minutes, the precise length of a testosterone release circle,and this happens when you are asleep. That's why men (should) wake up with erections. SLEEP,EMOTIONS AND THOUGHTS During sleep,you de-stress,rejuvenate your drive,and recharge your energy. It's when you refortify your ambition and creativity. It's when you fix yourself up and settle new ideas in the mind. HEALTH BENEFITS OF SLEEP Sleep is when you strengthen your bones,muscles,memories, blood, sperm,and new learning. It's when your onboard diagnostics and your immune system self-heal and detoxify. It's when you repair both physical and psychological wounds. It's when you grow both physically and psychologically. Good hormones lead,trigger, oil, oversee,contribute to,mediate,or are involved in all of these restorative processes. The better you sleep, the more these hormones shine. As the hormones level rise,they promote other brain chemicals important for quality sleep. Here is where the effect kicks in: the more refreshing your sleep is,the more your body will produce good hormones and the more you experience their greater benefits to greater effects to build better production capacity. By the time you are forty- five years old,you will have spent one-third of your life asleep. That's about fifteen years-years-asleep. Make that time work for you.
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Educative. I get Night terrors if iam sleep deprived.