5 reasons why your sleep is as important for your health as your diet

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5 Reasons why sleep is AS important as your diet for your health sleep is important but yet has been downplayed in our new information age. Especially with the new age Mantra of “HUSTLE “ ;“ I will sleep When I am dead “ etc .

But there is resounding research On why we should be getting good sleep . Not only in quantity but also in quality .

Here are 5 reasons

1- Not getting enough sleep is strongly linked with an increased risk of Heart disease and stroke .

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21300732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463000/

2- Adequate sleep improves your immune function Poor sleep is seen to affect your NK cells - Natural killer cells - These cells play a huge role in the immune system

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8621064/

3- Poor or inadequate sleep is strongly linked to weight gain This is multifactorial but peer reviewed studies have shown a consistent Association with poor sleep and obesity

4- Poor sleep can pre dispose you to diabetes Poor sleep is also known to affect insulin resistance in body cells this Predisposing the person to type 2 diabetes

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20585000/

5- Good sleep improves memory - - Good sleep the brain is still active Processing the day and thoughts and this is the stage of memory consolidation .

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