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Tip of the Month
June 2005
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Missing out on sleep lately? Check out these facts on how sleep can affect your performance. Shut-eye facts Fact # 1: A midday nap reverses information overload – those feelings of irritation, frustration and declining performance on mental tasks that set in during intense encounters with new information. Fact #2: The late stage of sleep – sometimes missed by early risers – can boost by 20% your acquisition of coordination crucial for playing a sport, a musical instrument, or any fine motor-control. Fact #3: Sleep strengthens the nerve circuits that underlie learning and memory, allowing the brain to make and consolidate new neural connections. Fact #4: Missing out on sleep seriously impairs the body’s ability to process blood sugar, impeding the action of insulin much as in diabetes. Sleep deprivation may be an important contributor to obesity. It also elevates the stress hormone cortisol. Fact #5: Sleeping for six hours a night may sound pretty good, but it’s not likely enough to keep your immune system happy. Restriction your sleep by a mere two hours a night for one week provokes the process of inflammation, which may set people up for heart disease. Fact #6: Sleep deprivation curtails your ability to come up with creative solutions to life’s challenges. Sleep doesn’t just put the brain on hold while you lay in bed. Your brain is very active during sleep. Sleep organizes the memories of habits, actions, and skills learned during the day. Sleep gives you the mental energy to master complex tasks and the ability to concentrate. In other words, success comes not only from what you accomplish when you are awake. We also get power from the ability of body and mind to consolidate themselves during the night.
Sleep is so important that your brain remembers how much of it you get. And it compensates for sleep loss by allowing you to fall asleep faster and staying asleep longer the next night. Sacrifice sleep and you sacrifice peak performance.
Information from April 2005 (volume 9) issue of Ladd Financial Home Front Newsletter
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