What Sleeping Does
The Harvard Women’s Health Watch suggests the following reasons to get enough sleep:
Learning and memory: Sleep helps the brain commit new information to memory through a process called memory consolidation. In studies, people who’d slept after learning a task did better on tests later.
Metabolism and weight: Chronic sleep deprivation may cause weight gain by affecting the way our bodies process and store carbohydrates, and by altering levels of hormones that affect our appetite.
Safety: Sleep debt contributes to a greater tendency to fall asleep during the daytime. These lapses may cause falls and mistakes such as medical errors, air traffic mishaps, and road accidents.
Mood: Sleep loss may result in irritability, impatience, inability to concentrate, and moodiness. Too little sleep can also leave you too tired to do the things you like to do.
Cardiovascular health: Serious sleep disorders have been linked to hypertension, increased stress hormone levels, and irregular heartbeat. Disease: Sleep deprivation alters immune function, including the activity of the body’s killer cells. Keeping up with sleep may also help fight cancer.
If you want to look younger—and feel even younger — better sleep may be just what your body needs to “reverse the aging curse.”
Wrinkles come on like gangbusters!
During normal waking hours, all cells are damaged, particularly the powerhouse of the cell – the mitochondria. This can cause wrinkles to come on like gangbusters. But that's just the start.
As the cellular engine, the mitochondria preserves proper DNA function, while ensuring that all the other cells and organs operate at full capacity, enabling them to produce energizing ATP molecules, neurotransmitters (for memory, focus, and enhanced mood), hormones, renewed skin, and lots more.
Getting deep, relaxing REM sleep HEALS the mitochondria so that aging is not intensified! And vice-versa.
When the mitochondria are damaged due to lack of sleep, many vital cellular functions cease to operate at full capacity. Scientists from around the world are sending out warnings...
Scientists Sound Off Alarm
"We found that the metabolic and endocrine changes resulting from a significant sleep debt mimic many of the hallmarks of aging," said Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and director of the study. "We suspect that chronic sleep loss may not only hasten the onset but could also increase the severity of age-related ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and memory loss."
Just as your vehicle’s engine requires fresh, clean oil every 3,000 miles to run smoothly, your body requires time to repair. When we sleep, our cells undergo repair or are replaced by newly generated, healthier cells – so that the vital functions operate efficiently. This deep sleep process reverse the aging curse every night!
Learning and memory: Sleep helps the brain commit new information to memory through a process called memory consolidation. In studies, people who’d slept after learning a task did better on tests later.
Metabolism and weight: Chronic sleep deprivation may cause weight gain by affecting the way our bodies process and store carbohydrates, and by altering levels of hormones that affect our appetite.
Safety: Sleep debt contributes to a greater tendency to fall asleep during the daytime. These lapses may cause falls and mistakes such as medical errors, air traffic mishaps, and road accidents.
Mood: Sleep loss may result in irritability, impatience, inability to concentrate, and moodiness. Too little sleep can also leave you too tired to do the things you like to do.
Cardiovascular health: Serious sleep disorders have been linked to hypertension, increased stress hormone levels, and irregular heartbeat. Disease: Sleep deprivation alters immune function, including the activity of the body’s killer cells. Keeping up with sleep may also help fight cancer.
If you want to look younger—and feel even younger — better sleep may be just what your body needs to “reverse the aging curse.”
Wrinkles come on like gangbusters!
During normal waking hours, all cells are damaged, particularly the powerhouse of the cell – the mitochondria. This can cause wrinkles to come on like gangbusters. But that's just the start.
As the cellular engine, the mitochondria preserves proper DNA function, while ensuring that all the other cells and organs operate at full capacity, enabling them to produce energizing ATP molecules, neurotransmitters (for memory, focus, and enhanced mood), hormones, renewed skin, and lots more.
Getting deep, relaxing REM sleep HEALS the mitochondria so that aging is not intensified! And vice-versa.
When the mitochondria are damaged due to lack of sleep, many vital cellular functions cease to operate at full capacity. Scientists from around the world are sending out warnings...
Scientists Sound Off Alarm
"We found that the metabolic and endocrine changes resulting from a significant sleep debt mimic many of the hallmarks of aging," said Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and director of the study. "We suspect that chronic sleep loss may not only hasten the onset but could also increase the severity of age-related ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and memory loss."
Just as your vehicle’s engine requires fresh, clean oil every 3,000 miles to run smoothly, your body requires time to repair. When we sleep, our cells undergo repair or are replaced by newly generated, healthier cells – so that the vital functions operate efficiently. This deep sleep process reverse the aging curse every night!
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