You love to sleep? 7 reasons why you should sleep more
Due to the fact that our body and mind are working intensely many hours a day, rest is needed for a quick battery recharge. It is not enough to eat healthy and exercise three times a week in order to maintain a proper functioning of your organism. Sleep is also needed as it is a physiological process of cell rejuvenation. But have you ever thought that sleeping more could have benefic effects upon you? Here are some arguments that could convince you that sleeping more is great for you:
1. As you might have known, specialists recommend us to sleep at least 8 hours a night. But at least I have never understood why we should do that. The explanations come from Loughborough’s University Sleep Research Centre: it seems that for each hour we loose from those eight of sleeping, one point from of IQ gets lost too. So, it is not the end of the world if you sleep seven ours one night, but imagine the disastrous effects of not sleeping enough time a whole week!
6 helpful tips on how to stop snoring
Snoring might be a funny subject for some people, but for those who are affected in a direct or indirect way by it can be a serious problem. Snoring can be a marriage breaker as it can affect the partner’s sleep. Besides this, snoring can cause sleep apnea, a serious affection that needs medical attendances.
Snoring is mainly triggered by smoking, overweight, alcohol intake, allergies and a particularity in the anatomic structure of the respiratory tract.
Here are a few useful and easy things you can try in order to keep snoring away from your bedroom:
1. Avoid drinking alcohol before bedtime. As alcohol relaxes the muscles that vibrate inside the pharynx, drinking alcohol before going to sleep would not be such a good idea. It also seems that the more you drink the harder you will snore. So, try to keep away from alcohol in the evening if you know you are a hard snorer.
Warning: What can I do if I suffer of insomnia?
This question has been on the lips of some friends of mine lately and so I decided to do some research about this annoying affection of which I am sure a lot of you have to deal with. After talking with a doctor and consulting some books I can say I have found some interesting things about this affection. Here is what I found out:
Insomnia can appear in some persons in the beginning of the night. These people accuse difficulties in falling asleep and they go the bed late having the certainty that they will not be able to fall asleep. In their case the stress of not being able to fall asleep is what mostly keeps them awake. When they are almost drowsing they wake up and fall back to sleep quite difficult.
Another type of insomnia is the midnight insomnia. People suffering of this type of insomnia go to sleep without problems but they wake up around 2-3 a.m. and can not go back to sleep any more. Of this type of insomnia suffer mostly people who have a depression or rough thoughts on their mind.