Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout your life. Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety. The way you feel while you're awake depends in part on what happens while you're sleeping. During sleep, your body is working to support healthy brain function and maintain your physical health. In children and teens, sleep also helps support growth and development. The damage from sleep deficiency can occur in an instant (such as a car crash), or it can harm you over time. For example, ongoing sleep deficiency can raise your risk for some chronic health problems. It also can affect how well you think, react, work, learn, and get along with others. Healthy Brain Function and Emotional Well-Being Sleep helps your brain work properly. While you're sleeping, your brain is preparing for the next day. It's forming new pathways to help you learn and remember information. Studies show that a good night's sleep improves learning. Whether you're learning math, how to play the piano, how to perfect your golf swing, or how to drive a car, sleep helps enhance your learning and problem- solving skills. Sleep also helps you pay attention, make decisions, and be creative. Studies also show that sleep deficiency alters activity in some parts of the brain. If you're sleep deficient, you may have trouble making decisions, solving problems, controlling your emotions and behavior, and coping with change. Sleep deficiency also has been linked to depression, suicide, and risk-taking behavior. Children and teens who are sleep deficient may have problems getting along with others. They may feel angry and impulsive, have mood swings, feel sad or depressed, or lack motivation. They also may have problems paying attention, and they may get lower grades and feel stressed. Physical Health Sleep plays an important role in your physical health. For example, sleep is involved in healing and repair of your heart and blood vessels. Ongoing sleep deficiency is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke. Sleep deficiency also increases the risk of obesity. For example, one study of teenagers showed that with each hour of sleep lost, the odds of becoming obese went up. Sleep deficiency increases the risk of obesity in other age groups as well. Sleep helps maintain a healthy balance of the hormones that make you feel hungry (ghrelin) or full (leptin). When you don't get enough sleep, your level of ghrelin goes up and your level of leptin goes down. This makes you feel hungrier than when you're well-rested. Sleep also affects how your body reacts to insulin, the hormone that controls your blood glucose (sugar) level. Sleep deficiency results in a higher than normal blood sugar level, which may increase your risk for diabetes. Sleep also supports healthy growth and development. Deep sleep triggers the body to release the hormone that promotes normal growth in children and teens. This hormone also boosts muscle mass and helps repair cells and tissues in children, teens, and adults. Sleep also plays a role in puberty and fertility. Your immune system relies on sleep to stay healthy. This system defends your body against foreign or harmful substances. Ongoing sleep deficiency can change the way in which your immune system responds. For example, if you're sleep deficient, you may have trouble fighting common infections. Daytime Performance and Safety Getting enough quality sleep at the right times helps you function well throughout the day. People who are sleep deficient are less productive at work and school. They take longer to finish tasks, have a slower reaction time, and make more mistakes. After several nights of losing sleep—even a loss of just 1–2 hours per night—your ability to function suffers as if you haven't slept at all for a day or two. Lack of sleep also may lead to microsleep. Microsleep refers to brief moments of sleep that occur when you're normally awake. You can't control microsleep, and you might not be aware of it. For example, have you ever driven somewhere and then not remembered part of the trip? If so, you may have experienced microsleep. Even if you're not driving, microsleep can affect how you function. If you're listening to a lecture, for example, you might miss some of the information or feel like you don't understand the point. In reality, though, you may have slept through part of the lecture and not been aware of it. Some people aren't aware of the risks of sleep deficiency. In fact, they may not even realize that they're sleep deficient. Even with limited or poor-quality sleep, they may still think that they can function well. For example, drowsy drivers may feel capable of driving. Yet, studies show that sleep deficiency harms your driving ability as much as, or more than, being drunk. It's estimated that driver sleepiness is a factor in about 100,000 car accidents each year, resulting in about 1,500 deaths. Drivers aren't the only ones affected by sleep deficiency. It can affect people in all lines of work, including health care workers, pilots, students, lawyers, mechanics, and assembly line workers. As a result, sleep deficiency is not only harmful on a personal level, but it also can cause large-scale damage. For example, sleep deficiency has played a role in human errors linked to tragic accidents, such as nuclear reactor meltdowns, grounding of large ships, and aviation accidents

Why the Drinking of Iced Water is so Dangerous For You?

Not many people understand why warm water is
far better than ice cold. Hopefully, this article will
help you see things better.
But, first, try this:
Close your eyes and imagine yourself being on a
wooden dook that extends into a mountain lake.
Sun is shining, birds are singing. Spring is
awesome. The top layer of the lake has just
melted. You decide to dive in the lake.
Now, how does your body react? Are you
relaxed or constricted?
If by any chance you did not know it, warm
water loosens skin and opens pores, and cold
water constricts it and closes pores. The same
happens to your digestive tract when you drink
ice cold water.
What does cold water do to your body?
– Body spends more energy to regulate its
temperature instead of absorbing nutrients and
digesting food. This may result in water loss.
– Cold drinks restrict digestion, shrinks blood
vessels and hinders hydration.
– When drinking cold drinks while eating food,
cold temperature solidifies fat from the food you
eat and your body cannot digest undesired fats
from the body properly.
– If you prefer drinking cold water after your
meals, your body deals with excess mucus,
which affects the function of your immune
system, so you are likely to catch a cold or
struggle with a disease.
People believe that cold water helps in burning
calories. But, you sure do not need your
digestive system working harder, and try to
make things a bit different. You can burn
calories in many other ways, without affecting
vital functions in your body.
Why is warm water better for you?
Stimulates digestive enzymes and enhances
digestion
Hydrates tissues faster
Improves better bowel movement. Try warm
lemon water in the morning
Your body breaks down food more efficiently
Boosts natural detoxification in your body
and cleanses blood via kidneys, skin and
lymphatic system
Once you decide to go for warm water or water
at room temperature, you will experience better
digestion and your body will feel much lighter
after or during meals. Some people claim that
drinking warm water has reduced their sugar
cravings.

GUYABANO (SOUR SOP) TEA FOR CANCER AND MANY MORE

GUYABANO (SOUR SOP) TEA FOR CANCER,
DIABETES, ARTHRITIS AND OTHER
INFLAMMATORY DISEASES. COME AND LETS
TALK ABOUT IT.
HOW TO PREPARE:
You will be needing 40 pcs of Guyabano leaves
1 liter clean water
NOTE: USE MATURE BUT NOT TOO OLD LEAVES.
AIR DRIED LEAVES ARE BETTER THAN FRESH
LEAVES BECAUSE IT CONCENTRATES THE
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE LEAVES
MAKING IT MORE EFFECTIVE. DON’T ALSO DO
SUN OR OVEN DRY BECAUSE TOO MUCH HEAT
WILL COOK THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF THE
LEAVES, THUS LOSING ITS POTENCY.
PROCEDURE:
1. Boil the 1 liter water in a sauce pan.
2. As soon as it boils, add the leaves and turn the
heat to low.
3. Simmer it for 20 minutes. The color will turn
to golden brown or just like the color of regular
tea.
4. let it cool before drinking.
The tea is only good for 7-8 hours and may be
refrigerated.
*GUYABANO TEA MUST BE TAKEN FOR 30 DAYS,
3 TIMES A DAY, ONE GLASS BEFORE MEALS. THE
TEA IS EASILY ABSORBED IN AN EMPTY
STOMACH.
*It should only be taken for 30 days. More than
that, it will destroy the normal flora.
*After 30 days, have yourself checked by your
doctor to examine if the disease is still there. If
the symptoms is still there, taper the dose to
maintenance dose.
*If the symptoms disappear before the 30 day
treatment, continue taking the tea to make sure
that no single sick cell is present.
30 day treatment, 3x a day, one glass 30 minutes
before meals no skipping.
MAINTENANCE DOSE:
ONE GLASS OF TEA A DAY 30 MINUTES BEFORE
MEALS FOR 5 DAYS EXCEPT SATURDAY OR
SUNDAY. HAVE AT LEAST 2 DAYS REST PERIOD A
WEEK.
***Don’t mix the tea with other healing
substances to avoid incompatibility.
*** Dont overuse the tea. Follow the procedure.