Beauty Sleep Benefits You Might Have Overlooked

Even machines need a time out to recharge, so why wouldn’t you? A good shut-eye is something that’s even more valuable than your endless status updates on social networks, not to mention the fact that it could definitely take away a chunk of the precious hours that you actually need to get a good night’s rest.

As a nurse, I could definitely give thumbs up to the fact that it’s almost impossible for patients in a hospital to get their much-needed uninterrupted night’s sleep: courtesy of the medical staff. It’s because of the fact that nurses need to check vital signs, and it’s a routine as per hospital protocol, administer due medications and antibiotics, and secure lab results, making sure that they’ll come in handy for the doctor’s early morning rounds. Technically, a good night’s rest is priceless and crucial in helping patients to recover from whatever pain they’re enduring which made them land in the hospital in the first place. But aside from hospital policies, you don’t need to get sick or injured to get the most out of sleep. Here are nuggets of wisdom on how nodding off at night could amp up your health.

That common cold you’re having right now may carry other symptoms that could further endanger your health. And a 2009 study taken from the journal Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that people who sleep less than seven hours a night are thrice more susceptible of getting a cold than those who get to sleep a sweet 8-hour-a-night.

A reboot does not only happen to movies and TV series dahling. Because sleep replenishes the cells and gives time and a chance for the body to carry out crucial maintenance duties, and that includes boosting up your immune system, and balancing the hormones and even patching up fatigued muscles.

There’s more to life than meets the eye, and a study taken from the journal Sleep back in 2008 found out that among elderly women, sleeping five to nine hours a day was definitely associated with a lower risk of mortality.

So hit the sack tonight and get that well-deserved sleep that you actually need, and smile! Stay pretty and glowing always!