If your mental or physical health is suffering, a lack of sleep may be to blame. Are you getting enough shuteye?
If your mental or physical health is suffering, a lack of sleep may be to blame. Are you getting enough shuteye?
Sleep is considered both reparative and restorative, and a full night’s sleep is essential to our overall health and well-being. But with the frenzied pace of work, social obligations and family demands, many people find that they are not getting the proper rest they need on a nightly basis.
As a family practitioner for over 20 years, USC clinical assistant professor Theresa Granger walks us through the drawbacks of sleep deprivation, the benefits of getting more (and better) sleep and the easy lifestyle adjustments we can make to improve our sleep habits and quality of sleep.
Most people may have heard of REM or non-REM sleep, but few understand what happens during those stages. We’ve long known that sleep is a restorative and reparative process, but recent research has revealed that in order to actually reach the restorative and reparative stages of sleep, you need to sleep deeply.
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