How Important Is Sleep?

As you get older, your health and your ability to stay healthy, becomes more about lifestyle and routine. 

SLEEP is one of the 7 pillars to maintaining great health. It helps to…

🔥Boost your immune system so you get sick less often. 

🔥Regenerate your organs by stimulating lymph to remove waste and byproducts. 

🔥Lose weight by burning off unhealthy fat. 

🔥Lower your risk from serious health problems, like diabetes and heart disease. 

🔥Reduce stress and improve mood. 

🔥Increase mental clarity. 

Sleeping is one of my favorite things to do. Over the past few years, I’ve become less capable of sleeping 8 hours and getting a restful night’s sleep. 

🤷🏻‍♂️Woke up tired, regardless of how much sleep I get. 

🤷🏻‍♂️Had a hard time falling asleep. 

🤷🏻‍♂️Hard time staying asleep, waking up several times in the middle of the night or getting up earlier than intended. 

🤷🏻‍♂️Hard time falling back to sleep. 

🤷🏻‍♂️Getting hot in the middle of the night and waking up to take the covers off. 

 As we get older, our need for sleep becomes greater. Our health is a reflection of how we choose to live and the choices we make. Here are the changes I’ve made…

👉🏻Don’t turn the heat on at night. The colder your room is, the hotter your body gets, the more energy it releases and allows you to sleep better. 

👉🏻Sleep naked! Clothing impedes movement during sleep and also makes your body hotter and decreases your ability to expel that heat. 

👉🏻No screen time in bed, or an hour before you’re ready to go to sleep. Blue light from electronics will affect your Pineal gland and trick your body into thinking it’s still daylight. 

👉🏻Finish eating food 2-3 hours before bedtime and allow your body to fully digest everything you’ve taken in. 

👉🏻Journal, meditate, stretch or do light yoga before bedtime to relax your mind (👇🏻stress), which also helps to relax your body. 

👉🏻If you have a child/children and you know they get up early in the morning, go to bed earlier yourself. 

👉🏻Get blood work done to see if you are deficient in certain amino acids (tryptophan), neurotransmitters (GABA), minerals (magnesium) and/or hormones (melatonin). 

Creating new routines and making better lifestyle choices can improve your health greatly. If you don’t make a change, nothing changes.  

If you’d like help getting started, making lifestyle changes, creating new routines, or blood work done and interpreted for you, email to set up a consultation and/or to make an appointment. 

“Your health is a reflection of how you choose to live!”