Bedding Basics Buying Guide
Why Is Sleep Important to Your Health?
Achy, groggy, grumpy. These are just a few of the ways you feel when you don’t get enough sleep. Why is sleep important? It does so much more for your body than get rid of pesky dark circles. Sleep deprivation affects your fine motor skills and reflexes. While getting your rest won’t keep you safe from getting sick, consistently getting the sleep your body needs will lower your risk of injury, such as tripping or falling.
Your mood is greatly affected by a lack of sleep. When going through the day on only three or four hours of sleep, things that normally wouldn’t annoy you drive you up the wall. You'll find yourself being short with people too. Getting the proper amount of sleep keeps you in a good mood.
Sleep keeps your mind sharp! Your memory takes a huge hit when you’re overly tired. Your mind and body use sleep as a way to recharge. When you sleep, your brain is processing all the information you took in for the day and creating memories. Being short on sleep, affects your ability to learn. It’s harder to make information stick in your memory and to recall it.
Working out hard but not seeing the results you want? It could be a lack of sleep affecting your weight loss. Sleep impacts ghrelin, the hunger hormone, and leptin, the fullness hormone. When you aren’t sleeping enough, leptin decreases and ghrelin increase, which leads to overeating and weight gain.
Make sure you get at least seven to eight hours of sleep a day to keep your mind and body in tip top shape! To start your journey to amazing sleep, shop for comfortable and quality bedding essentials at JCPenney!
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