"May you dream sweet dreams about sour pickles!" Saying so mom sent me to bed early. For her, it was an integral part of good sleep: to see beautiful dreams. And how important theme allowing you to relax, sleep, evidenced by the question that everyone is asking each other a billion times a day around the globe: "How did you sleep?" But why do we need to man this "timeout"? Why can't we stay awake 24 hours a day?

"More recently, science believed that sleep is required by our body to save energy," explains Dr. Bernard CISC, the ENT doctor, a specialist in sleep medicine and Vice-Chairman of the Association of ENT doctors in the district of düsseldorf. "However, Seidu so it became clear that in the dream burned the same amount of calories as in the waking state.

Lack of sleep can lead to weight gain

Scientists from the American University in Cleveland, Ohio presented in figures information about 68.000 women and came to a surprising conclusion: women who slept for about five hours more gained weight than women with at least seven hours of sleep. For ten years the difference averaged 0.7 kg and, in addition, those who had slept little the risk of obesity above 15%. Further studies show that who sleep less than 7 hours, the cold sore 3 times more often than others. Immune system needs at night to form antibodies against the virus.

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Good, healthy sleep – what is it?

"If we want to understand what is good, relaxing sleep," says Dr. Bernard Kick that in the sleep lab looks for the causes of the problems of their patients. "We have to see what happens in the body". Metabolism, digestion, cell creation, healing, remembering, and teaching, for all this man needed night's rest. As soon as it becomes dark, the body begins to produce the sleep hormone melatonin. It passes throughout the body and are produced up to 4 o'clock in the morning. We feel tired and fall asleep. The moment of sleep we do not remember because the brain releases a substance in a fraction of a second, and these substances turn off consciousness.