Ever wondered why the grumpy face early morning when you get up from the sleep you wanted the most. Well the answer is you did not get enough of it. Even after taking a nap of 7-8 hours you may still feel exhausted and there are numerous reason responsible for it. Lets see how we can correct it.
The late night dinner can be one of the major hinderences to your sleep. Our body works according to the circadiam rhythm and our actions may disrupt the body clock thereby causing discomfort in digestion and ultimately affecting our sleep. May I remind you about the discomfort you felt after having a late night meal. Gastroesophageal reflux diseases or commonly known as acid reflux may be felt after having too much of food or too much acidic food and worsens if you lie down. The second possible reason could be STRESS. The thoughts in your mind will be an obstacle in the winding up of your body while you try to comfort yourself to get well deserved rest. Another reason could be a strenuous workout routine before you sleep which might set your mood in action and elevate your activeness but carry forward the tiredness to next working day.
Focusing on problems will never lead to solutions. Focusing on solutions will never give you any problems!!! Lets have a look at benefits of a good sleep.
1. Better Memory – You won’t be able to recollect the details of your past activities easily as you could after having a better sleep over a period of time. This is becasue of the vital role sleep plays in learning and storing. According to WebMD, the brain does not gets sufficient time to store for a later presentation which results in troubled recall of memory.
2. Feel Amazing – You get these feelings specially on Sunday’s as you are all set to not get out from the bed or couch. Secondly you may feel amazing on days when you are happy throughout and go to bed. This is a contributing factor thereby making you ready and active for the next day. Learnings from WebMD reflects lack of sleep contributes to more of negative emotions/ reactions than the positive one’s.
3. Heart Healthy – According to excerpts from WebMD, sleeping causes your blood pressure to go down and relaxes your heart and blood vessels. This results in a normal blood pressure and rest to the heart. On a personal note just imagine the cost of night outs???
4. Balancing Weight – Sleep deprivation results in the fluctuation of hormones that control appetite and your self control might go down. A good sleep will make you feel hungry only when you are actually hungry. To eat good, sleep good. WebMD is seriously making some factual claims and its personally experienced by me !!!
5. Too good too Bad – Anything too much always comes with its cons. The extra sleep you take might risk your arteries for calcification and lack of flexibility too. Although more research it still being made to observe the ill effects or extra sleep, an ideal sleep differs for each one. A new born spends 2/3rd of the day sleeping where as on adult spends 1/3rd of the day sleeping. Quite a significant difference.
To Conclude on a personal note, keep yourself active. It promotes better sleep as you make your body tired and nourish it with better sleep, good and timely food intake. Rectifying a bit will give you better results. Lets try out for week and then comment below to share your experience……..NutritionByKshitij®.
References: WebMD.
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