“Health comes from sleep” is a new view put forward by medical researchers based on the latest results of sleep research in recent years. Long-term lack of sleep and insomnia can cause a series of damage to the body, including decreased thinking ability, decreased vigilance and judgment, low immune function, and endocrine disorders. Sleep has six main functions.
1. Eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength
Sleep is the main way to eliminate physical fatigue. Because the gastrointestinal tract and its related organs are in a state of rest during sleep. During sleep, body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure drop, breathing slows, and the body’s basal metabolic rate decreases, thereby restoring physical strength. More importantly, when sleeping, the human body synthesizes the energy substances needed by the body to make it for use during activities. Experiments have shown that energy anabolism in the body exceeds catabolism during sleep, so that the energy consumed by the tissue during activity is supplemented.
2. Protect the brain and restore energy
Sleep is what the brain needs to rest and repair. Lack of sleep, manifested as irritability, excitement or apathy, lax attention, memory loss, long-term lack of sleep can lead to hallucinations. Those who get enough sleep are energetic, quick-thinking, and efficient. This is due to the fact that the human brain has highly developed functions, but after a certain level of continuous operation the brain becomes tired. The oxygen consumption of the brain is greatly reduced during sleep, which is beneficial to the energy storage of brain cells and the repair and maintenance of some important nerve cells. Sleep is not only “body rest”, it is important to rest the brain and eliminate brain fatigue. Therefore, sleep is beneficial to protect the brain and improve brain power.
3. Enhance immunity and recover the body
“Sleep is the first line of defense against disease.” In addition to eliminating fatigue and giving people new vitality, sleep is also closely related to improve immunity and resist diseases. Under normal circumstances, the secretion of corticosteroids will gradually decline at night, and cooperate with melatonin, so that people can quickly enter the dream state. The amount of corticosteroids rises slowly with dawn, reaching a peak near dawn. With adequate sleep, corticosteroids have a natural cycle that refreshes the body. But if you don’t get enough sleep for a week, and corticosteroids don’t peak in the early morning, you’ll experience listlessness and so on. People who lack sleep for a long time, the blood sugar level has increased, which may be caused by the lack of sleep and makes the central nervous system active, inhibits the function of the pancreas, and reduces the secretion of insulin. It can be seen that lack of sleep may be one of the reasons for the increase in the number of people suffering from diabetes in recent years.
4. Delay aging and promote longevity
In a person’s life, awakening and sleep alternate like day and night, which constitute the basic law of life. Once this law is terminated, life will end. Human aging is the first reduction of brain cells, and one of the methods to delay the aging of brain cells is adequate and effective sleep. In recent years, many investigation and research data have shown that healthy and long-lived elderly people have a good and normal sleep. . Therefore, people must pay attention to sleep, the only way to avoid premature aging.
5. Protect people’s mental health
Sleep is very important to protect people’s mental health and maintain their normal psychological activities. Because of poor sleep in a short period of time, there will be distraction, while for a long time, it can cause memory loss, cognitive decline, unreasonable thinking and emotional disorders and other abnormal conditions.
6. Good for skin beauty
Lack of sleep, no matter how much beauty you do, won’t help. Sleep reinfuses the body with new energy. If you don’t sleep well, you will feel stiff joints and weak legs and feet when you wake up in the morning. The skin is also reconditioned at night, and cell division is accelerated by 200% during sleep. During sleep, skin metabolism is active, capillary circulation increases, and its secretion and removal process is strengthened, providing more nutrients and oxygen to the skin, taking away toxins and metabolites, and accelerating skin regeneration, so sleep is beneficial to skin beauty.
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