21/10/2020
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Posted • HEALTH BENEFITS OF SLEEP
🔥This post takes pieces from our blog - check out the link in bio to read the full article taking a deep dive into sleep! The article was written by
😴Sleep has the ability to impact our health in a multitude of ways due to the fact that as we mentioned, it has touchpoints with every single system of the body. Whether it’s cardiovascular efficiency, endocrine balance, metabolic flexibility and regulation, or neurological enhancement we can see sleep’s influence.
‼️The first element to the link between sleep and our health lies in the correlations we see between sleep and mortality. Even when we control for other variables, we see a direct association between sleep and mortality, where the lowest risk lies in the range of 7-8 hours of sleep.
🦠Next, we can look into the association that we see between sleep and the risk for the major chronic diseases we deal with in modern society (i.e. Cardiovascular disease, Alzehimer’s, Diabetes, Cancer). We also see higher incidences of obesity and depression in those individuals not getting good sleep quality and duration.
💤Sleep plays a vital role in multiple elements of our immune system. Firstly, sleep impacts our adaptive immunity which is essentially your ability to fight off pathogens. For example, those
getting less sleep are 3x more likely to succumb to the common cold. The other way in which sleep impacts the immune response is our innate immunity, the actual immune response to something we’re actively fighting. As a demonstration of this, there has been research done that shows our antibody response to a flu vaccination to be much less when we are sleep deprived.
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