Wow Sleep. It’s as important as eating. When you were a newborn, your parents paid special attention to the number of hours you slept. They did it because it was important to your growth. After many years, you start to less bedtime for more fun. It could be late watching movies / TV shows or partying.
This lifestyle makes you sleep 4-6 hours and your days are hard, you are tired. It’s difficult to stay focused and you have no energy. In these conditions, it’s almost impossible to achieve your goals.
Lack of sleep
When you talk to people around you, you may notice that they are not getting enough rest. This can be for different reasons. We live in a very competitive society and people are under a lot of pressure and stress. Then to release all this pressure, we like to have fun thinking about something else. The thing is a 24 hours day, no more. So, to have time to do more tasks in a day, you have to sleep less. Little by little each weekend, you want to party and you recover less than during the week.
Unfortunately, sleep deprivation has bad side effects. You can have:
- Stroke
- Cardiac arrest
- Heart attack
- Diabetes
- Arterial hypertension.
- Decreased libido
- Impaired immunity
- Obesity
- Depression
Benefits
The fact that your parents went out of their way to let as much sleep as possible. Indeed, sleep has many advantages:
- Get sick less often
- Stay at a healthy weight
- Lower your risk of serious health problems, like diabetes and heart disease
- Reduce stress and improve your mood
- Think more clearly and do better at school and at work
- Get along better with people
- Make the right decisions and avoid injury. For example, drowsy drivers cause thousands of car accidents every year.
Here are tips on how many hours you sleep for different age groups:
- Most adults need 7 or more hours of good-quality sleep on a regular schedule each night.
- Teens need 8-10 hours per night
- School-aged children need 9 to 12 hours per night
- Preschoolers should get 10 to 13 hours of sleep per day (including naps)
- Toddlers should go to bed 11-14 hours a day (including naps)
- Babies need 12-16 hours of sleep per day (including naps)
- Newborns need 14-17 hours of recovery per day
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-Steph