**Sleep Matters: Some more: **How Rest Affects Your Health**

 **Sleep Matters: Some more: **How Rest Affects Your Health** 

 

 In the present day society, people pay scant regard to sleep as they are willing to forgo sleep for work, attending functions and other commitments. However, sleep cannot be described as merely lying down and doing nothing: it is essential to life. 

 

 ### The Role of Sleep in Physical Health 

 

 Sleep is essential in the body as it assists in the maintenance of health of the physical structure. It is in sleep that bones are strengthened, muscles grow and formed, and those hormones that regulate growth and food intake are secreted. It has been elaborated that sleep deprivation can develop such diseases as obesity, diseases of the heart, and a weakened immune system. For instance, sleep deprivation leads to the release the stress hormone cortisol, which in outcome cause inflammation resulting to chronic diseases. 

 

### Mental Health and Sleep 

 

 Another aspect of health, which has to be preserved to a certain degree, is the mental one, which also includes such aspects as receiving a proper amount of sleep. It is utilized in anger management, in strengthening of memory traces, and in support of different other facets of cognition. That implies that if a person lacks enough sleep or sleep that is of low quality that he or she can be depressed, anxious, or have mood swings. It also influences the ability to use the logical aspect of the mind, which is the ability to understand, concentrate and to decide among other things. If one stays without sleeping for many nights, in a way that one cannot get enough sleep, then one’s psychological state begins to degrade to worse stages. 

 

 ### Tips for Better Sleep 

 

 The following is the list of the ways on which caring for sleep does not have to be complicated: If a person maintains a proper schedule of their sleep and rising time, innovations of relaxation before sleep, purchasing proper bedding can also help a lot. There are also other ways through which the body can be made to prepare for sleep, they include also avoiding caffeine and electronics at night. 

 

 ### Conclusion 

 

 It is rare for it not to be tragic when people consider sleep as something that one cannot afford to have and not as something they must have. Sufficient rest rejuvenates the body and also the mind, so enhances your general health. In any case it is worth to recall that good night sleep mean productive and healthy day.