How can sleep benefit your healthand exercise performance?
Sleep keeps metabolism high and reduce the production of ahormone called Ghrelin which is the hormone that makesyou feel hungry. Therefore this helps to keep weightstable and limits the risk of weight gain.
Such as concentration,cognition and productivity.
Sleep can aid so manyessential parts of the immune system including theinnate response which helps keep pathogens andharmful bacteria out of your cells and destroys thembefore they can make you ill.
As you sleep our short termmemories get converted into long term memories.
A lack of sleep causes ahigher release of cortisol which can cause high bloodpressure. Therefore, sleeping reduces this risk.
Sleep is important to allow the body to recover fromexercise, repair muscles and restore its energy sourcesfrom food you have eaten.
As we sleep our bodyproduces growth hormone which is a factor that helpsus to build lean muscle.