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Sleep Revealed To Be A Strong Correlation To Mental Health

Destry Masterson | 01-27-2012 | Sleep Disorders | Viewed: 72 | Bookmark and Share
Article Summary Sleep directly affects your cognitive acuity. Simply by remaining awake for 17 hours you are as impaired as if your blood alcohol level was .05.
According to the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine, there are significant correlations between sleep apnea and various health problems such as cardiovascular disease, risk of stroke, incidents with artery classification-or something like that. Further studies show that people who suffer from depression and insomnia can cut back some of the symptoms from depression by getting better rest.

Of course it is hard to get someone with insomnia to sleep, and if they have insomnia and sleep apnea, well, they probably have good reason to be depressed, and most likely they are. At the most minimal level not getting proper sleep will make you feel tired, groggy and unmotivated throughout the day.

If you think you are just lazy and don't care to do anything, check yourself maybe you are not lazy, perhaps you are just sleep deprived. Many times a person will be prevented from entering deep sleep because of the conditions they are forced to sleep in.

Beds, temperature, spouses stealing the blankets, animals snuggling by your feet, all of these things could be factors contributing to poor sleep. Start with the ones furthest to the left of the list, unless you know your dog is causing problems with sleep.

Examine your bed but more specifically your mattress is it a spring board, a latex foam mattress, a water bed, an air bed, a memory foam mattress? Sleep does make a difference and you may just be lacking quality of it.

Many people esteem sleep to be cheap, which is totally not the case. It is going to tax one third of your life, but not to worry that is life well spent.

There are few unconscious activities- actually zero unconscious activities that will provide the same benefit that sleep will. What happens is it strengthens the brain cells that are used for making memories and thoughts, meaning sleep makes you smarter.

Apart from making your brain better it also is the only time that protein synthesis can actually happen effectively, meaning your muscles too are going to grow. So if you sleep a good amount every night you can expect to see great muscles and great brains.

Sleep affects the entire body by strengthening muscles, fortifying organs, cleanses garbage from the blood, and just promoting overall health really. But more importantly than that, it is going to do the same thing for the brain.

Studies conclusively show that lack of sleep is directly correlated to psychosis, neurosis, phobias, depression, anxiety, basically every nervous disorder on the planet. So start sleeping for the sake of your brain.
Destry Masterson Destry Masterson is a health and fitness nut. She writes articles about exercise, sleeping and recommends sleeping on the best mattress for back pain from IntelliBED.

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