Man cannot survive lack of sleep for as long as he can survive deprivation of food. All the organs of the human body are subject to fatigue as such as our muscles, central nervous system and our sensory organs. Working these organs for sometime at a certain level of intensity and energy expenditure produces fatigue and requires an alternation of exertion and rest.
You must suspend activity temporarily in order to replenish energy. The fatigue that you feel shows how strenuous you have been exerting and going beyond your limits and maybe at a level where you sure could not further exert yourself. I hope you grasp the idea of not stretching what you cannot stretch by the law of nature. Fatigue is a behavioral regulator of activity which is physiological but may lead to pathological conditions of exhaustion or even of collapse that could be organic, psychological or psychosomatic.
Have you ever wondered why sometimes you feel emotionally and physically tired for no reason at all? Lack of sleep has serious consequences. The way you feel and think is being affected by lack of sleep. It has adverse effects on our motor skills and immunity. You should know by now that several nights of poor sleep can hamper immunity. Yeah…. Yeah… and still you are taking it for granted eh?
Learn to stay young and healthy by parking your bodies at the right time. I have encountered a lot of business and career professionals who are trying to find more profitable and productive time at work and a more balanced and enjoyable time at home depriving their selves with what I see is most important to keep them going – sleep!
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The importance of sleep
Our biological clock runs on a daily basis called as the circadian rhythm. Normally your body is alert in the morning and winds down until nighttime when it is a natural state to sleep.
Before you wake up each day your body and blood temperature rises, your heart beats faster and your endocrine glands squirt out cortisol and other hormones you need to get going for the day.
At night before you go to sleep, your temperature, heart rate and blood pressure falls. Your body releases more melatonin from the bare of brain in response to declining levels of light. Thus cortisol is active at day and melatonin is active at night.
Wrong Impression
You may think you are active at night but your bodies may not agree. The point is we don’t go against nature and what we have been built from the very beginning of time. To make my point, I would like to share with you some research I have read in the past like some women working at night shifts found to be more vulnerable to breast and colon cancer and a news item regarding research on highly industrialized areas showing more workers working at night shifts getting cancer. Hah! Here’s more – fatigue and loss of appetite are also caused by the skewed circadian rhythm.
Part of each cell in your body is out of sync with healthy cells. One research found out that if you go to bed by 10pm and wake up at about 6am you reduced your risk on breast cancer by 50% lower.
Don’t take sleep for granted or shall we say life?
Sleep is so important that even one hour less of it each night can cut your life short. Research shows that people who sleep less than six hours a night don’t live as long as those who sleep for seven or eight hours. That magnificent multitasking intelligence that manages your mind and body needed to rest to properly perform all the tasks needed to carry out to keep you balanced and healthy. Sleep that is fewer than four hours invites onset of diseases as such as diabetes, high blood pressure and weight gain. Wow! What a waste of energy carrying out pain!
A simple lifestyle change can help you gain several more productive, creative and focused hours a day! Please don’t let habits and behaviors get in the way. Take sleep seriously and do what it takes to do to add more to your lives or at least keep those net income really an income and not a bounce back expense to medicals. As I have told you, money is not everything but health is!
