Your body needs some time to shift into a slower gear in order to fall asleep. Taking an hour or so before bed to engage in a calming activity such as taking a warm bath, reading or doing some type of relaxation practice helps to quiet your mind down. Avoid stressful activities such as dealing with your finances or that project for work.
Throughout your time asleep, your brain will cycle repeatedly through two different types of sleep: REM (rapid-eye movement) sleep and non-REM sleep.
The first part of the cycle is non-REM sleep, which is composed of four stages. The first stage comes between being awake and falling asleep. The second is light sleep, when heart rate and breathing regulate and body temperature drops. The third and fourth stages are deep sleep. Though REM sleep was previously believed to be the most important sleep phase for learning and memory, newer data suggests that non-REM sleep is more important for these tasks, as well as being the more restful and restorative phase of sleep.
There are several stages of sleep, and they are all important. During deep sleep, the body… Sleep is important for energy, avoiding weight gain, lowering the risk of heart disease… A light sleeper may awaken from sleep easily and not go through complete sleep cycles .
Your body needs some time to shift into a slower gear in order to fall asleep. Taking an hour or so before bed to engage in a calming activity such as taking a warm bath, reading or doing some type of relaxation practice helps to quiet your mind down. Avoid stressful activities such as dealing with your finances or that project for work.
“ There’s a host of evidence overall suggesting that probably sleeping on the side is better,” says Dr. Virend Somers, a cardiologist and director of the sleep facility within Mayo Clinic’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Side sleeping helps prevent the airway from collapsing and can reduce snoring.
Without sleep you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and it’s harder to concentrate and respond quickly .Sleep is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve cells (neurons) communicate with each other. In fact, your brain and body stay remarkably active while you sleep. Recent findings suggest that sleep plays a housekeeping role that removes toxins in your brain that build up while you are awake.
Ballin Akula Bula
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Federal university of kashere , Gombe state