Sleeping is the best of relaxing.
Sleep is important for physical health and mental health. Sleep hours will change depending on your age. Sleep helps maintain health and make feel fresh, It causes metabolic and hormones system of function normally. Sleep is key to your physical health and emotional vitality.
“Sleep is important for mental function: alertness, memory consolidation, mood regulation, and physical health,” says Phyllis C. Zee, professor of neurology and director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
How much sleep you need to stay healthy, alert, and active depends on your age and varies from person to person. Most adults need at least seven or more hours of sleep each night.
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) and a panel of 18 experts combed through more than 300 studies to identify the ideal amount of time a person needs to sleep according to their age:
• Newborns (0 to 3 months): 14 to 17 hours of sleep
• Infants (4 to 11 months): 12 to 15 hours of sleep
• Toddlers (1 to 2 years): 11 to 14 hours of sleep
• Preschoolers (3 to 5 years): 10 to 13 hours of sleep
• School-aged children (6 to 13 years): 9 to 11 hours of sleep
• Teenagers (14 to 17 years): 8 to 10 hours of sleep
• Young adults (18 to 25 years): 7 to 9 hours of sleep
• Adults (26 to 64 years): 7 to 9 hours of sleep
• Older adults (65 years or older): 7 to 8 hours of sleep
Adequate sleep to the time that the body needs. It causes helps in the rehabilitation of the body and make your healthy. And then helps the system of various organs. Adequate sleep is important for the body result in the quality of life and good health.
