Sound Sleep - A must for Healthy life !
Sleep is a natural state in which many animals and humans rest. It takes up a large portion of our everyday lives and is considered important and necessary for our survival.
Sleeping is generally characterized as being in a state where voluntary body movement is reduced (including to external stimuli such as touch, sound and even pain), loss of consciousness, temporary inability of sight, and increase in anabolism rate as well as decrease in catabolism rate.
Sleeping plays many essential roles such as restoration, memory processing, anabolic state for some anabolic and catabolic cycles, and also preservation of our species. It helps in growth and regeneration of our body, help in acceleration certain anabolic and decelerating certain catabolic cycles and processes, help in memory forming and filtration, and also a method of self-defense of a species to protect from harsh conditions or predators.
However, there is a large number of our population with sleeping problems or sleeping disorders. These increasing problems are caused by many factors, naturally and artificially. Sleeping disorder is a condition in which the amount, quality, or timing of an animal or person is disturbed and different from the normal pattern for a long term. Some researchers states that there are about 80 or more different types of sleeping disorders.
The most common sleep disorders in humans are Bruxism, night terror, sleepwalking or somnambulism, snoring and many more. These many different disorders have different symptoms, causes and effect and are classified into 3 major subcategories which are intrinsic (sleeping disorders which arise from within an individual’s body), extrinsic (sleeping disorders caused by environmental conditions or conditions caused by effect of pathogens on our body – 2ndary effect), or disturbance of a normal circadian cycle (24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings).
Effects of these sleeping disorders are different according to different disorders ranging from mental and health stress to death caused by some disorders. But the most common effects of sleeping disorders are strain and deterioration of one’s mental state (either sufferer or people around), physiological health and behavioral attributes.
Sleeping disorder can cause many problems to the patient’s health and state and needed to be treated with care. Main methods of treating sleeping disorders are behavioral/psychotherapeutic treatments, by use of medications and somatic treatments. However, none of these treatments alone is sufficient for all types of sleeping disorders. Rather, the suitable method(s) of treatment is dependant on state of the patient and type of disorder and in some conditions, more than one method is needed.
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I would say that definitely a large part of our health is attributed to how much and how well we sleep. The basic premise here is that growth hormone is at its highest when you are in your deepest state of sleep. It’s in these deep sleep cycles that our bodies produce roughly 80% of our growth hormone. Of course if you miss that deep sleep by having lights, music or other distraction, you can rob yourself of the much needed hormone balance in your body that prevents us from having to be dependent on prescription drugs and other pharmaceutical products.