Sleep makes you feel better, but its importance goes way beyond just boosting your mood or banishing those dark, under-eye circles.
Adequate sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, and can benefit your heart, weight, mind, and so much more!
Adequate sleep benefits:
Improve your memory
Affect quality of life
Curb inflammation
Spur creativity
Sharpen attention
Healthy weight
Lower stress
Lower anxiety and depression levels
Stronger immunity
Better sex life - According to a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, up to 26% of people say that their sex lives tend to suffer because they're just too tired.
Over-all better health! - Getting a good night's sleep won't grant you immunity from disease. But study after study has found a link between insufficient sleep and some serious health problems, such as heart disease, heart attacks, diabetes, and obesity.
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