"As important to your brain health as good nutrition and regular exercise, the consequences of missing sleep begin with diminished daytime function: mood, energy, concentration and reaction time. But, sleepless nights have implications well beyond making you sleepy the next day. Over the long term, it contributes to obesity and the risk of serious illness. Beyond its interplay with brain health issues such as dementia and Alzheimer's, sleep in healthy, young people also plays a key role in memory formation and consolidation."
"Sleeping well requires both spending enough time asleep and getting high-quality rest. While it is somewhat straightforward to determine whether a person is spending the recommended number of hours in bed, it can be more challenging to measure their sleep quality. Sleep quality is partially subjective and depends on how rested a person feels when they wake up and throughout the rest of the day."
Insufficient sleep impairs daytime function — mood, energy, concentration, and reaction time — and contributes to obesity and higher risk of serious illness. Sleep supports memory formation and consolidation in healthy young people, and inadequate sleep often causes short-term memory problems. Sleeping well requires sufficient duration and high-quality rest; sleep quality is subjective and measured by how rested a person feels. One night of poor sleep has consequences, and effects accumulate with repeated short nights. Losing a night of sleep can immediately raise brain beta-amyloid levels, which form plaques that disrupt neuronal communication and are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
Read at Alternative Medicine Magazine
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