Sleeping well helps to gain memory and lose weight

Increased creativity and memory, boosting the immune system and weight loss are some of the benefits of a good sleep, said specialists, who warned that "four out of ten Argentines suffer from pain and suffering". a pathology of sleep ".

"Biologically, people are ready to sleep a third of their lives.Sleep badly can have significant consequences because during the sleep state, homeostatic processes or self-regulation are generated," said the neurologist Stella Maris Valiensi on the occasion of the World Day of Sleep, commemorated every 15 March.

The sleep medicine specialist explained that during sleep "increases parasympathetic activity", which allows "energy recovery, lowers blood pressure and increases anorexigenic hormones".
"In the first half of the night, secretion of growth hormone increases and before waking up, cortisol is secreted, a hormone that provides the energy needed to cope with the stress of the day that begins," he added.

Thus, the benefits of a good sleep are multiple: it increases creativity, improves memory, helps to lose weight, strengthens the immune system, protects the heart, fights depression, recharges energy and promotes work performance.

According to Valiensi, four out of ten people in Argentina suffer from a sleep pathology, while more than half of the population has "the feeling of poor sleep."

For his part, Daniel Pérez Chada, Head of the Department of Pneumology and Director of the Sleep Clinic of the Southern Hospital, emphasized the importance of sleep hours in the process of learning adolescents.

"Teenagers sleep less than necessary to ensure adequate rest.It is estimated that in general, they sleep less than eight hours a night," said Pérez Chada.
He added that "excessive daytime sleepiness" detected in children and adolescents is an "important social problem".

"Different research suggests that teens need more than eight hours of nighttime sleep to maintain a level of alert that allows them to achieve adequate academic performance," he warned.

And he concluded: "In children and adolescents, superior cognitive functions such as verbal creativity and abstract thinking are negatively affected by the restriction of nighttime sleep."

(Télam)