As a society, many of us strive to sleep less in order to achieve more. With work, relationships, children, chores, errands and commuting, we believe we just don’t have enough time in our day to sleep. However, we also don’t realize the terrible negative effect cumulative sleep deprivation is having on our physical and mental health!
I’ve had countless clients tell me they’re fine sleeping 4-7 hours a night, and have “adapted” to living with little sleep. Yet here they are, in my office, anxious, depressed, overweight, and/or physically ill. It seems they don’t realize how truly devastating it is to our bodies when we don’t make the time to sleep.
In March 2008, the CBS show 60 Minutes did an excellent exposé on the effects of sleep deprivation. I really encourage you to watch it: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-science-of-sleep/. It’s only 25 minutes long, and shows the research that has been done on the impact of sleep on cognitive abilities, learning, reaction times, appetite, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and sex.
The findings are truly sobering, and I hope it will help you realize that you absolutely need to make time for sleep in your schedule, no matter how much you have on your plate. If you don’t sleep, you really will pay for it dearly.
I’ve had countless clients tell me they’re fine sleeping 4-7 hours a night, and have “adapted” to living with little sleep. Yet here they are, in my office, anxious, depressed, overweight, and/or physically ill. It seems they don’t realize how truly devastating it is to our bodies when we don’t make the time to sleep.
In March 2008, the CBS show 60 Minutes did an excellent exposé on the effects of sleep deprivation. I really encourage you to watch it: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-science-of-sleep/. It’s only 25 minutes long, and shows the research that has been done on the impact of sleep on cognitive abilities, learning, reaction times, appetite, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and sex.
The findings are truly sobering, and I hope it will help you realize that you absolutely need to make time for sleep in your schedule, no matter how much you have on your plate. If you don’t sleep, you really will pay for it dearly.
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