GOOD NIGHT --- BRINGS --- GOOD MORNING

No matter what your age, sleeping well is essential to your physical health and emotional well-being. Absolute insomnia cannot be tolerated for more than a few days. Resistance is quickly brought down and psychological symptoms like hallucinations and delirium occur.

Factors that hinders the sleep are -

• Stress and emotional strains
• Pain
• Poor habits 
• Dementia which leads to confusion for  day and night schedule for the sufferers 
• Medications like anti hypertensive, anti-depressants affects the quality of sleep. The most common medications with stimulative properties are prescribed for breathing problems and prostate health. 

Everything that's alive needs sleep to survive. Even though people have different sleep requirements, most healthy adults require around 8 - 9 hours of sleep per night. As we age, we tend to sleep less. Seniors sleep less even when allowed more sleep because of age-related physiological changes that affect the ability to fall asleep and remain asleep.

When we get too little sleep we feel lethargic, sluggish and dizzy too. Long-term sleep deprivation is a kind of mental torture. Many studies indicated that leaving without sleep is similar to being intoxicated. Benefits of sleep are -

• Sleep allows our body to rest for the next day.
• Sleep, a good mood and performance are directly related. 
• Anyone who starts their day after a restful night is better able to concentrate on work and feels more balanced. 
• Sleep is the time when our body repairs the wear and tear in the tissues.
• It stabilizes our waking brain, makes us more alert and allows us to process information faster.