This challenge focuses on restorative sleep. Sleep is a critical third pillar of a healthy lifestyle according to the ACLM and a foundational habit for health.
Increasingly, scientists are discovering that how much and how well you sleep throughout adulthood can be a big factor in how healthy you stay into your golden years. Insufficient sleep increases the risk of disorders, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, stroke and depression. It's also associated with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.
"We have 50 years of data showing that people who sleep between seven and eight hours live the longest.” - says psychologist Michael Grandner, PhD, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona.
Sleep hygiene should be a priority at every age! Join me and find restorative sleep! That involves establishing healthy sleep habits such as avoiding late-day caffeine, limiting afternoon naps, skipping out on late-night screen time and being exposed to natural light patterns.
However, truly disordered sleep requires intervention beyond those basic habits, Grander says. "Sleep hygiene is something everyone should do, but you have to remember: Hygiene isn't treatment," he says. Some disorders, such as sleep apnea, are readily treatable with devices or surgeries to open the airways. Insomnia is also treatable—but there's no quick fix.
Prescription and over-the-counter sleep aids can be tempting to people tossing and turning all night, but they aren't a substitute for natural shut-eye. Sleeping pills do not induce normal patterns of restorative sleep, Mander says.
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