Sleep is one of the most important things we can focus on (it’s free) when it comes to health, and healing your body.
We have to make it a priority or other factors will force it to be one!! It’s really important to get to bed/sleep around 10:00 PM as certain cleansing cycles (energy cycles/meridians from acupuncture) take place between 10:00 PM and midnight, and if we’re not asleep the janitor will pass us by and we’ll miss out on the healing (so to speak).
Story at-a-glance
- Getting quality sleep, and enough of it, is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body and invigorate your health on a daily basis
- Lack of sleep has been shown to raise your risk for chronic illnesses such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. The World Health Organization has declared shift work a “probable human carcinogen” because it causes circadian disruption
- Research has shown that a single night of sleeping just four hours lowers the amount of natural killer cells — powerful immune fighters that target malignant cells — by 70 percent
- During REM sleep, the visual, motor/kinesthetic, emotional and memory centers ramp up their activity. Meanwhile, your prefrontal cortex — the “CEO of the brain” that rules rationality and logical thinking — shuts down
- Extreme sleep deprivation can cause delusions, hallucinations and irrational or psychotic behavior, caused by the fact that your brain goes to sleep and you begin to experience your dreams while awake
From Mercola
