Russell
Foster, argues that an average person spends 36% of their lives sleeping, that
is if you live 90 years, 32 year old had asleep; which means that sleep is
important. But over the decades, every time we sleep less, do not give due
importance.
Why do we sleep?
Ø The
Restoration: All things and spend Daytime recover overnight, a series of genes
are active during sleep and helps the Restoration.
Ø Conservation
of Energy: save calories while we sleep.
Ø Cerebral
process and memory consolidation: After learning something deprived of
sleep a person, the ability to learn is drastically reduced. Sleeping at
night increases our creativity.
What if our brain is tired?
Ø Micro-sleeps
uses, that is to say falling asleep involuntarily.
Ø The brain
craves things to wake, like drugs and stimulants. For example resorting to
caffeine.
Ø And when we
want to sleep, but we can not (for stimulants taken) we turn to alcohol to
achieve it.
Ø If we sleep
less than 5 hours then we have a 50% chance of obese.
What are the
causes?
A major loss of sleep is because of stress,
people are massively stressed tired. Constant stress leads to suppressed
immunity and tired people tend to have higher rates of infection in general.
Stress increases heart disease then the blood
pressure rises.
There are a number of problems associated
with sleep loss that are slightly damaged brain, which is where most think that
resides that loss of sleep.
Finally, what
do to sleep?
Ø Avoid light
half an hour before bedtime, lower the lighting in our room.
Ø Avoid look in
the mirror while we clean our teeth.
Ø Shut things
that stimulate the brain, ie turn off cell phones, computers etc.
Ø Do not drink
too much caffeine in the afternoon, ideally not after lunch.
