{"id":2472,"date":"2017-12-11T17:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/2017\/12\/11\/getting-more-sleep-could-have-huge-benefits\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:36:39","slug":"getting-more-sleep-could-have-huge-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/2017\/12\/11\/getting-more-sleep-could-have-huge-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting More Sleep Could Have Huge Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-346\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Getting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Most people are pretty good project managers. They juggle their daily schedules and manage to get an amazing amount of work done each day. Unfortunately, in this 24\/7, \u201calways on\u201d world we live in, the one thing that seldom gets prioritized is sleep.<\/p>\n<p>That matters because our bodies require 8-9 hours of sleep every night to maintain optimal health, and Americans average less than seven hours a night. It matters because getting enough sleep provides a whole raft of health benefits, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bolstering your immune system \u2013 Sleep helps regulate all the body\u2019s systems, including your immune system. Chronic sleep deprivation can weaken your immune system, making your body less capable of warding off diseases. If you don\u2019t get enough sleep, you can bet you\u2019ll wind up taking more sick days than you otherwise would have.<\/li>\n<li>Heart health \u2013 Studies have shown that people who don\u2019t get enough sleep are at higher risk for heart disease and tend to have higher blood pressure than those who regularly get a full night\u2019s sleep. If you want to guard against these conditions, a good night\u2019s sleep is a super simple way of doing so!<\/li>\n<li>Brain defense \u2013 Not only does a good night\u2019s sleep help ward off conditions like anxiety and depression; it also has the effect of flushing out the toxins that tend to build up in your brain during the course of a typical day. Both very good things.<\/li>\n<li>Weight management \u2013 This comes down to simple math. The more time you spend sleeping, the less time you have to eat. If you\u2019re prone to enjoying \u201cmidnight snacks\u201d which invariably consist of sugar-laden foods, simply going to bed before snack time will do wonders for your diet and your weight.<br \/>\nIn addition to that, people who don\u2019t get enough sleep have higher than average levels of ghrelin, which is the hormone that stimulates appetite. If you want to lose weight, get more sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bottom line is that sleep is extremely important to your overall health.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not getting enough, you can do wonders for your mind and body by remedying that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-346\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Getting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Most people are pretty good project managers. They juggle their daily schedules and manage to get an amazing amount of work done each day. Unfortunately, in this 24\/7, \u201calways on\u201d world &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}