Healthful Adequate Sleep by Christine L. Foutch
Dr. Christine Foutch is a holistic physician practicing in Rock Island, IL. The practice of holistic medicine integrates conventional and alternative therapies to prevent disease, treat disease, and most importantly promote optimal health.
Everyone Requires Sleep
Sleeping allows for needed renewable processes in our bodies. During our sleep, our cells repair, adapt, and stabilize from all the impacts of our day.
Extensive Wakefulness
In this fast-paced world, there is extensive wakefulness. With cell phones ringing at our hips, computer screens bright throughout the evening, and alarm clocks in the morning.
During Our Sleep
Many processes ensure that newer experiences, as well as information from the day, are converted into a form that is more stable and long-lasting in our long-term memory.
A Lack Of Quality Sleep
A lack of quality sleep can cause high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, obesity, difficulty with energy conservation and thermoregulation.
Sleeping Doesn't Mean Unconscious
Being asleep is very different from our waking state. We are consciously there, yet still, forgetting generally what we experienced during our time of rest.
Researchers Now Believe
The brain is possibly re-playing the day's activities, experiences, and all the emotions involved while we are sleeping. It is activating selective memories rhythmically.
Our Individual Needs For Sleep Vary
People usually need about 7-8.5 hours of sleep per day. The amount can differ based on individual traits, stress levels, age, and gender.
The Sleeping Individual
It is believed that we encounter the transfer and the consolidation of our newer established memories partially as we dream.
