Health: Why Poor Sleep Lowers Your Immune System

Why Poor Sleep Lowers Your Immune System

Written by Kacper Postawski

Have you ever wondered 'exactly' why we tend to sleep longer when we're sick? As you might already know, we sleep in "sleep cycles". We can categorize these cycles into "light sleep", and "deep sleep." But just HOW important deep sleep is to our immune system?... As you read, it's during repparttar

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longest period of Stage 3 and Stage 4 sleep. Stage 3 and Stage 4 Sleep is also commonly termed "deep sleep." It's during deep sleep that we experience very low brain waves called Theta and Delta brain waves. Our blood vessels dilate and all repparttar 114157

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day moves into our muscles to nourish and repair them. Our immune system also activates during deep sleep to fight disease. This is why people tend to sleep longer when they're sick. When you don't take proper care of your inner sleeping system, you're usually at risk of "poor sleep." Poor sleep happens for a variety of reasons which I outline in repparttar 114159

Powerful Sleep book, but repparttar 114160

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difficulty of obtaining proper amounts of "deep sleep." It's very common for people who travel across many time zones to get sick very quickly, we usually blame this on "Jet-Lag." However, jet lag happens because of repparttar 114163

body's natural body temperature rhythm being out of alignment. Jet-Lag commonly creates a disruption of deep sleep, added with repparttar 114164

stress of travel, this is a perfect mixture for lowering one's immune system. Most people live without being aware of all repparttar 114165

actions they're taking in their lives that are completely detrimental to their sleeping system, which are depriving them of energy, and making them SLEEP LONGER than they really need to. Fortunately, there are simple methods to take proper care of your inner sleep system, and strengthen it for maximum performance.

Dieters need more calcium

Written by Marilyn Pokorney

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Women on diets need more calcium than normal to avoid bone loss, say Rutgers University researchers.

Studies showed a weight loss diet of 1.5 pounds a week for 6 weeks cuts absorption of calcium. In 57 postmenopausal dieters it was discovered that those women who took 1,800 mg of calcium a day absorbed 78 percent more calcium than those who took only 1,000 mg a day. To prevent bone loss, women dieting after menopause should get 1,700 mg of calcium a day, repparttar 114159 experts say.

For people on low-fat, high fiber diets calcium requirements are also higher. Studies show that 19 percent less calcium is absorbed. It is theorized that repparttar 114160 healthier diet moves food faster through repparttar 114161 gastrointestinal tract.

While it is common knowledge that calcium is necessary for bone-growth research shows that calcium also fights fat absorption. Studies reveal that calcium blocks fat storage in fat cells. A minimum of 1,000 mg. of calcium daily improves total cholesterol and good HDL, but lowers bad LDL.

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