The Facts about Sleep
Written by clive on 10:19 AMSleep is interwoven with every facet of daily life. It affects our health and well-being, our moods and behavior, our energy and emotions, our marriages and jobs, our very sanity and happiness. All of us do it nearly every night of our lives (about a third of the human lifetime is spent in sleep), yet most of us know little about it.
People used to think of sleep as a time of quiet, of inactivity. But during sleep, a lot of complex activity occurs both in the brain and in the body. Sleeping doesn't turn off your body's systems; in fact, some of them are more turned on during sleep than when you are awake. Indeed, there are some medical disorders that occur only during sleep and go away when you are awake. This discovery is so new that some medical textbooks written only a few years ago are now out of date.
What is sleep? What controls this universal cycle that is as natural as night following day? Why does on person "sleep like a log" and another toss and turn all night?
There are so many questions about sleep> before we present the specific steps of the program, we want to explore some of the questions frequently asked of sleep experts. The answers will give you some of the facts that have been learned in research lab and may help you separate sleep facts from sleep fiction.
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