Category: Sleep

Why is it beneficial to have quality sleep? Quality sleep can manage stress better Good sleepers and bad sleepers experience about the same number of daily minor stressful events. Interestingly, good sleepers are less disturbed by these events.    Bad sleepers can release cortisol and other stress steroids that initially help the body in stress.   Continuous high levels of these powerful hormones ultimately cause some of our most serious health concerns like heart attack and stroke. Stress can cause poor sleep and poor sleep can cause stress The activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis increases arousal and causes sleeplessness.   Research shows that …