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Key 3: Proper Sleep And Recovery
To consider sleep as an activity is difficult. One assumes sleep to be
a phase of inactivity or rest. But, the matter of fact is, that sleep is
that active phase in our entire day's routine, when numerous bodily
functions are expedited. The sales data of sleep inducing
tranquilizers and sleeping pills prove the rising cases of sleep
deficiency that owes a lot to the modern lifestyle. While profound
research is available on the importance of exercise for the body,
few embark on the desire to learn about rest and sleep...yet it is
one of the most important factors in overall health and well-being.
What Is Sleep?
Firstly, it's important to understand that while the body rests , the
mind and the brain go on a restorative hyper-drive. Bodily signals
are sent to the various organs of to begin its build up for the next
hour of optimum action. The more sleep deprived a person is, the
more the chances of deficient physical and mental activity, as
you've not allowed your body to recover from the previous bout or
prepare for the next. Sleep is a period of nerve and muscle
relaxation which begins a period of repair and rejuvenation of all
the tissues and organs , much needed after a day of hectic often
strenuous activity. Sleep is determined by a certain biological cycle
called as the 'circadian clock'. It depends on the intervals of certain
number of hours of being awake followed by sleep, and so on.
Other elements affecting it could be- the amount of light, stress
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