How can sleep benefit your health and exercise performance?
Sleep keeps metabolism high and reduces the production of a hormone called Ghrelin. This is the hormone that makes you feel hungry. Therefore, sleep can help to keep your weight stable and limit the risk of weight gain.
Such as concentration, cognition and productivity.
Sleep can aid so many essential parts of the immune system including the innate response which helps keep pathogens and harmful bacteria out of your cells and destroys them before they can make you ill.
As you sleep our short term memories get converted into long term memories.
A lack of sleep causes a higher release of cortisol which can cause high blood pressure. Therefore, sleeping reduces this risk.
Sleep is important to allow the body to recover from exercise, repair muscles and restore its energy sources from food you have eaten.
As we sleep our body produces growth hormone which is a factor that helps us to build lean muscle.
