Eat well, sleep well, live forever

As the saying goes, "Eat well, sleep well, live forever". Speaking of eating well: Now the living standard has improved, people are eating well, not to mention big fish and big meat every day, but every day the combination of buckwheat should not be a problem. But when it comes to sleeping well: how many people can sleep until they wake up naturally every day? According to statistics, 35% of them have insomnia, while 77.5% of them are in shallow sleep. We often hear those insomniacs say: I usually go to bed early, but I just can't sleep all the time. The more I can't sleep, the more irritable I am.

"Sleep in winter without covering your head, sleep in summer without revealing your belly." According to sleep experts, insomnia not only reduces people's intelligence, affects people's daily work, but also makes the human immunity decline extremely easily due to long-term sleep deprivation. If a person often sleeps less than six and a half hours, it is not only easy to overdraw his health, but also easy to form a "sleep deficit", speed up the aging of the body, thereby shortening the life span of people.

According to an authoritative study, there is a biological clock that controls sleep in the human body. It is located in the hypothalamus, which determines the length of sleep for people of different ages. For example, newborn babies need 16 to 20 hours of sleep a day, 3-year-olds need 10 to 12 hours of sleep a day, and adults need 6 to 8 hours of sleep a day. When the sleep biological clock is running normally, people's sleep is in a normal state. Once the biological clock is destroyed, sleep disorders will occur, resulting in sleep disorders.

How can we ensure a good quality of sleep? This is what many insomniacs want to know. In fact, if we adults want to have a good sleep, we must have good sleep habits. It's better to get up around 6:30 in the morning and start sleeping around 9:30 in the evening. Now life rhythm is faster. Set the time and improve sleep slowly to adapt. It's time to go to bed. Otherwise, it will affect their health. Health is the capital of revolution. Without health, everything is in vain.

Sleep is the best tonic

"Food tonic is better than medicine tonic, food tonic is better than sleep tonic." In the final analysis, sleep is the best tonic! Sleep and diet are two of the most important tasks for health preservation. People consume a lot of energy in work, work and study. In addition to diet, they also need sleep to compensate. Ancient people have the saying that "taking all kinds of medicine is better than lying alone", which means sleeping soundly is better than taking tonics.

Li Yu, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, once resorted to a magician who lobbied around for health preservation tips. The reason was that the magician let Li Yu worship him as a teacher. Therefore, Li Yu first asked him how to live a long life, and explained that if they agreed, they would worship him as a teacher, otherwise they would be friends. The sorcerer said, "The way to prolong life is to be guided; the only way to live an peaceful life is to do meritorious work." Li Yu answered, "If so, your method of practice is the hardest, and those who can practice it can do it." I am lazy and active, and like to seek pleasure in everything. I can't do it by your way: "Li Yu thinks that sleep can nourish essence and qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, and strengthen bones and muscles." If a person stays awake for several nights, he will be tired and sick easily; if a patient sleeps well, his illness will be alleviated. Therefore, the key to health preservation should be sleep first."

Li Yu's point of view is not unreasonable. It is the so-called "sleeper can eat and live forever". Sleep is not only an important way to supplement, store energy, eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength, but also an important link to regulate various physiological functions and stabilize the balance of the nervous system. Adequate sleep can lead to new mental and physical strength. In extreme fatigue, even a 20-minute nap can give you as much power as a gas-filled car.

If a person does not get enough sleep, he will often be depressed, distracted, dizzy and muscular soreness. If a person can't sleep well for a long time and is in a state of excessive fatigue, the body will produce pathological changes of exhaustion, injury and blood, and damage the five viscera. Heart strain leads to blood loss, liver strain leads to mental damage, spleen strain leads to food loss, lung strain leads to gas loss, and kidney strain leads to energy loss, thus laying the roots for many diseases. This can be proved by animal experiments.

Although few people take the initiative to "stay awake for a long time", quite a number of people unconsciously work overtime day after day, or surf the Internet, play games, watch TV, read books, or engage in interpersonal entertainment, depriving normal sleep time, resulting in insufficient sleep. We should know that people who lack sleep for a long time will affect their lives and work.

A good rest is the real "360 Guard"

Sleep is the most efficient and relaxing form of rest, which is closely related to our immune function. Proper sleep time can help human immune function to play normally, while insomnia at night may affect human immune function, make the human body vulnerable to pathogens such as bacteria and viruses, and even increase the probability of cancer.

Immunologists at the University of Florida, after studying the relationship between sleep, hypnosis and human immunity, have found that sleep is closely related to the ability to improve immunity and resist diseases. The team trained 28 experimenters in self-hypnosis. The results showed that T lymphocyte and B lymphocyte in the blood of the hypnotized persons increased significantly. Lymphocyte is the main force of human immunity.

William Dement, an American professor, pointed out vividly that "high quality sleep is the first line of defense against disease." Through research, he found that those who got up at 3 a.m. had weakened immunity the next day, and that the number of cells in the blood that had protective effects against pathogens had decreased by one third. This situation should be more vigilant for those who suffer from chronic diseases or other causes of reduced immunity in the body. If they lack sleep again, their immunity will be more damaged.

In animal experiments and clinical studies, the interaction between sleep and immunity has gradually been confirmed. For example, in the study, influenza viruses were used to infect rats. It was found that there were influenza viruses in the lungs of rats deprived of sleep, while there were no viruses in the lungs of rats not deprived of sleep. This indicates that sleep plays an important role in promoting the body's immune system and eliminating viruses. If rats were deprived of sleep continuously, they would die, and their average survival time was 19 days. Pathogenic bacterial infections were found in blood cultures, suggesting that the cause of death in rats caused by sleep deprivation was that sleep deprivation seriously damaged the immune function of the body.

In humans, when sleep is insufficient or deprived, the immune cells of the body do not have enough time and energy to function. If you sleep less than five hours a night, your body's resistance to disease will drop by 50%, which means you have double the chance to be infected by the bacterial environment around you. What's worse is that it takes longer for you to recover. In addition, your hormone secretion is also prone to disorders, accelerating aging.

When the body's immune system function changes (such as being infected by pathogens, tumors), the human body often shows increased sleep, that is to say, the body restores and enhances its immune function by increasing sleep. Do you remember that you were always drowsy after you caught a cold? After a long sleep, you will feel much better. This is the body's self-protective response - by suppressing other functions through sleep, highlighting the immune function, so that you can resist disease bacteria.

Reality and experience tell us that sleep can enhance the body's immunity and improve the body's health index. Therefore, sometimes sleeping more properly is a good medicine for treating diseases. As the saying goes, "Disease is nourished by seven points and treated by three points". Sleep is the most important part of these seven nutrients. In hospitals, doctors always tell some patients to have a good rest and sleep more, because when the body is infected, it will produce a sleep-related compound, cytoparin, which can not only induce sleep, but also enhance resistance and promote the production of immune proteins. Therefore, patients with good sleep also recover faster than those with good sleep. Patients with poor sleep quality are quicker.

In short, in a word, only by improving sleep and relaxing ourselves, can we better safeguard our all-round physical and psychological health. Let's live a happy and healthy life every day.