Importance of Sleep

During sleep, the heart can decrease the incidence of many diseases. For
instance, decrease the risk of happening heart attack, high blood
pressure, and calcium buildup in the heart’s arteries. Most of these
diseases occur while a person sleeps less than the average number of
hours. People who less than the average number of hours are more prone
to heart attacks. These cases occur when blood flow to the heart is
blocked so the heart doesn’t get enough oxygen. Sleep decreases heart
attack “While the NREM sleep stage helps the heart slow down and
recover” (Eric S, 2022). In between high blood pressure it occurs only
for people who sleep less because the blood pressure will not get down
at night while sleeping if they have lack or poor sleep. And high blood
pressure it leads also to reduce the blood to flow the brain with problems
in kidney. On the other hand, getting less sleep increases the danger of
calcium buildup in the heart's arteries, which increases the risk of a heart
attack. Additionally, people who slept for fewer than six hours every
night had the highest risk of having changes in the arteries that supply
the heart. As a result, not having enough of sleep can do far more than
just give you bags under your eyes. These diseases mostly happening if
the people sleep less the average of hours. Moreover, you should sleep
enough hours, no more or less, to avoid these diseases (How Does Sleep
Affect Your Heart Health?, 2021).
It is important to get enough sleep on a daily basis because sleep is
considered necessary and fundamental for the human body. It plays an
important role in maintaining health such as, strong heart, brain and
immune system. But in the same way it plays role outside the body too,
like physical sleep can help in losing weight, have good body shape and
lifestyle. Sleeping for optimum amount of time helps body in performing
daily tasks actively and efficiently. Sleep gives the body energy and
renews its activity. It also helps the body grow and develop its muscles
and bones throughout the night. A people who doesn't get enough sleep
feels anxious and tense the entire day, which causes them to become
unnerved in any setting.
Getting enough night's sleep can increase your immunity and improve
productivity. However, a lack of immune system might result from
insufficient sleep. It also can help the immune system to fight infection.
While sleeping, the body releases cytokines, which is important and
essential for the regulation and improvement of the immune system.
Also, during sleep cytokines increased amounts when the immune
system feels attacked from any infection in order that lack or poor sleep
reduce to improve the immune system from any infection. It helps to
increase the immune system's activity, which improves the body's ability
to resist infection with many diseases, including the flu, colds, and the
buildup of toxins. That is the reason that the body tends to sleep more
while suffering from any infection. “Long-term lack of sleep also
increases your risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart and blood vessel
(cardiovascular) disease” (Wein, 2013). Further, the researchers
discovered that sleep affects the effectiveness of the vaccine, and the
study indicates that the quality of sleep significantly affects the function
of the immune system. Not only does sleep help immune system fight
infection and improve vaccine but also sleep help the immune system to
stop the growth of cancer by effect hormones, metabolism, and
inflammation and “better sleep may help in feeling better both
physically and emotionally, improving their ability to cope with cancer”
(Kannan Ramar, October, 2021).
On the other hand, sleep hours different for each age to another. For
example, if a baby is three months old or less, his sleep hours should
range from 14 to 17 hours a day, including nap times. But if a baby is
from four months to twelve, his sleep hours should be from 12 to 16, and
older baby from one year to two years will be from 11 hours to 14. And
kids aged from three to five their sleep should be between 10 and 13
hours, and those who aged from six to twelve should sleep between 6 to
12 hours. And teenager from the age of thirteen to eighteen their sleep
should not be less or more than the than 8 to 10 hours. From the age of
nineteen and above, their sleep hours are more than 7 hours (How Much
Sleep Do I Need?, 2022). Therefore, the number of hours of sleep for
each age is very important for human health, because it gives everybody
the rest that need.

Sleep is an important time for the brain. Sleep strengthens memory,

improves brain function, and helps the brain to relaxes and focus that
leads to increased creativity. Sleep help to get robust memory. Enough
sleep on a daily basis, lead to robust memory. It also supports numerous
other aspects of thinking including memory, creativity, and emotional.
Sleep is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve
cells communicate with each other. In fact, even while you sleep, your
body and brain are surprisingly active. Recent findings suggest that sleep
plays a housekeeping role that removes toxins in your brain that build up
while you are awake (UNDERWOOD, 2013).
In conclusion, getting enough sleep daily keeps the body healthy and
protect it from heart diseases like heart attack, high blood pressure, and
calcium buildup in the heart’s arteries. Moreover, sleep improve immune
system and enhance its ability to fight against infections and cancer
growth. Sleep improves the brain to memorize, consolidation of
memories, and ability to acquire new memories as well. In addition,
sleep is improvised physical and emotional well-being, sleep also
improves safety and quality of life. Any sort of learning is enhanced by
getting enough sleep since it facilitates concentration, decision-making,
and creativity.
References
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Kannan Ramar. (October, 2021). Sleep is essential to health: an
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UNDERWOOD, E. (2013, 10 18). Sleep: The Brain's Housekeeper?
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