Sleep is Non-Negotiable
If you aren’t getting 8 hours of sleep every night you’re not taking advantage of your body’s most powerful restorative mechanism! Every hour in that 8-hour sleep cycle is crucial for expelling toxins from the brain and allowing your body to go into repair-mode, or in other words, healing-mode. Every hour of sleep you miss adds up and sets you back on your path to full disease recovery. Getting a full night’s sleep every night is one of the most guaranteed ways to recover from any illness.
Autoimmunity and Sleep
Losing as little as three hours of sleep could reduce the effectiveness of your immune system by half! If you’re like so many of our clients who suffer with autoimmune disorders you want to make absolute certain you are not compromising your sleep. Improper sleep over a long period of time is known to trigger dormant autoimmune disorders and can severely impede the body’s ability to maintain homeostasis. Don’t compromise, you need your sleep!
Sleep Improves Learning
Sleep improves learning in two ways. First, you need sleep before-hand to prime your brain for acquiring and processing new information efficiently. This is the active stage of learning while you’re awake. If you don’t sleep well before trying to learn something your memory circuits essentially become ‘water-logged’ and you can’t absorb new information. However, you also need sleep AFTER you learn new information to essentially hit the ‘save’ button and to cement the information into your brain, stabilizing the memory. If you are not giving yourself adequate sleep before learning, you aren’t going to learn efficiently, and if you don’t give yourself adequate sleep after you won’t retain the information.
Take Back Your Health
We hope you found this educational and encouraged you to emphasize the importance of a full 8-hour night’s rest. If you’re struggling with chronic illness, you’ve tried everything with no success, and you’re willing to take the next step on your path to recovery visit us at Years Restored to apply for an opportunity to take part in our 10-day Detox Program in scenic Northern California. We also have more great articles like this one here. We hope to see you there!