Brain Over Brawn: Smart Solutions to Regain and Maintain Strength, Health & Youth by Clint Cornelius

Author:Clint Cornelius [Cornelius, Clint]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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The best and most enriching sort of sleep that can be attained is deep and uninterrupted. Full, luxurious REM cycles will provoke an enhanced recovery, rebuilding, and revitalizing of your body. Chemicals and hormones get replenished, neurological and psychological issues get resolved, and components are refueled, rearmed and ready for battle. In a deep, deathlike sleep is when all the best things happen, and are a treat you cannot afford to cheat yourself out of. Here are some general guidelines to enhance the deepness of your rest:

Budget for sleep first. The optimal sleep levels for an adult range from seven to nine hours, depending on the person. Most people will read that as “I can get by on seven” or “seven max”. No. You should aim for eight initially, and adjust based on how rested and recovered you feel, not on what your schedule dictates. Of all the ever-growing demands for your time in a day, sleep should have first priority. For those who can’t get enough hours out of the week, start by removing actual noncritical timesinks and waste. Sleep is non-negotiable. It’s reported that the average American watches 22 hours of television each week; by dumping their least favorite shows, most people can not only reclaim enough hours for sleep but also for exercise and cooking. Much to the dismay of the career-focused, work is non-critical when reckoned against sleep. The spinning-your-mental-wheels treat you get while watching television can be administered by sleep in a far superior dosage.33

Total darkness. When you stop to consider how long life has existed on earth, and that the light bulb has been around for only 120 years or so, it should come as no surprise that there have been concerns raised regarding our lack of total darkness and the subsequent disconnect from the night’s rest and repair. Recent studies find that exposure to light at night suppresses the pineal gland’s ability to produce melatonin. This in turn inhibits proper secretion of hormones from the thyroid, hypothalamus, pancreas, adrenals, ovaries and testes. Stifling these hormones may make us more prone to illness such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.34 A compelling demonstration of how the chemical replenishment achieved in sleep is dependent on total darkness, specifically in the eye receptors, studies demonstrate blind women being half as likely to develop breast cancer simply due to their innate ability to maintain darkness-criteria while sleeping.35

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