Getting adequate sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your overall health. Your body has to have time to recuperate and regroup so to speak. While you are sleeping your body is using food you’ve eaten during the day, healing muscle tissue that was broken down during workouts, and letting your nerves settle and relax.
If you get adequate amounts of sleep you will feel like working out more instead of just laying around on the couch. You will have more energy for exercise, family activities, and work. Sleep is one of the best gifts you can give yourself.
Getting enough sleep will help your muscles heal after a workout quicker. Therefore you can get to the next workout that much sooner. During strength training workouts muscle fibers get little tears. During the night while you are asleep they heal. This is how you develop stronger, leaner, and bigger muscles.
While sleeping our body goes to work breaking down the food we’ve eaten during the day. If you don’t get enough sleep your digestion will suffer. Loosing sleep can mess up the way hormones that control appetite work, making you hungry more often. This and other evidence leads some to believe that lack of sleep contributes to obesity.
Many fibromyalgia sufferers list insomnia as one of their main symptoms. Some think insomnia causes fibromyalgia, that by not getting enough sleep your body stays in the flight or fight mode constantly. When the body goes into REM sleep the nerves and everything relax. People with fibromyalgia hardly ever reach REM sleep. When your body is deprived of restful sleep for a long period of time the nerves will send the wrong signals. This is thought to contribute to the pain fibromyalgia sufferer’s face. This is just one of many conditions linked with lack of sleep. Getting adequate sleep will ward off many health conditions, and improve others.
When run down and wore out people often make bad choices. By getting adequate amounts of sleep you are more alert. If you are more alert and attuned you are more likely to take care of yourself.
Make sure to get adequate sleep. You need to sleep and relax to be truly healthy. Sleep is a very important tool in a person’s quest for overall health and wellness. Your toolbox has to include all the right instruments for you to achieve optimal health. Don’t let a good nights sleep ruin all the other hard work you are putting into yourself.
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