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The Importance of Sleep
The Importance of Sleep
There are so many benefits to getting a good night's rest, and so many detriments when we do not. Without the proper amount of sleep, it negatively impacts our growth and stress hormones, immune systems, appetites, breathing, blood pressure, cardiovascular health, and it can increase the risk for obesity, heart diseases, and infections. The lack of sleep is directly linked to some of the most common chronic health issues.
How to Get a Better Night's sleep
How to Get a Better Night's sleep
Drexel's Dr. Joanne Getsy offers five different tips on how to ensure you are getting great sleep. She was a professional in the Department of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and the medical director of the Drexel Sleep Center, and is now retired.
Her five tips are:
Establish a schedule
Avoid light
Create your own "lullaby"
Don't rely on sleeping pills
Naps are both good and bad
To read a more in-depth explanation for her reasons behind these tips, read her article!
Elizabeth B. Dowell's Ted Talk focuses on the dangers of being constantly connected to technology, and how that has had a huge impact on the way we sleep. She is a professor in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University.
"Most adults don't get enough sleep and that's not good for our physical, our psychological, and our emotional health. Sleep matters to our well-being!"
It's very important to go to sleep at a reasonable time, and give your body the rest it needs to function correctly the next day.
There are many resources provided by Drexel University for students to reach out to if they are struggling. Sleep is a necessity, and there are external factors affecting that it's important to reach out.
If you are staying at a Drexel residence hall, reach out to your RA if there are disturbances in your room or on your floor that impact your quality or quantity of sleep.
Drexel recognizes the strain put on students, whether because they are studying late into the night for exams, hanging out with friends, or simply staying up on social media. College students are reported to be one of the most sleep-deprived age groups, with 70% getting less than eight hours of sleep during the school week.
With the proper amount of sleep, you can maximize the ability to retain information, do better on exams, decrease the possibility of catching an illness, and stay healthy physically and mentally.
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