SLEEP - EMPOWERING PEOPLE

S. Arshiya Banu*, S. Asadulla and K. Purushothama Reddy

ABSTRACT

Sleep plays a vital role in our daily life. Physiologically, it is a complex process of restoration and renewal for the body. Sleep is involved in healing and repair of our heart and blood vessels and it plays a major role in improving the physical health. This article focuses on the importance of sleep and also on the facts, how people is becoming far from adequate sleep and suffering from sleep problems as well as many other health related problems like heart diseases, stroke, obesity, epilepsy, kidney diseases and psychological disorders. It also focuses on aspects like how sleep helps in wound healing, remembering, learning immune functioning and restoration. This article supports the viewers to know the major affects caused due to inadequate sleep and the routine things that most of the youth do to be awake to indulge in other activities which unknowingly leads them to suffer from many health related problems.

Keywords: Sleep, health, sleep deprivation, heath problems.