Sleep has an important role in maintain good health and proper figure throughout one’s life. Getting adequate sleep at night and other free times of a day helps to stabilize mental balance, life quality and physical health. For teenager, sleeping is very important as it plays a major role in their development and growth.

One’s mood right after waking up from sleep depends mainly on what he or she was dreaming or thinking, while asleep. Here are some more interesting facts about how sleep helps us.

• The body works throughout the time one sleeps to accelerate healthy functioning of the brain which in turn helps in physical growth of the body. The brain prepares the next day’s schedule when one is sleeping.

• It helps in developing sharp memory and supports learning and remembering data. In a survey it is recorder that proper sleep in the night increases the learning capacity in a student.

• Sleep has the potential to enhance the memorization capability. Sleep provides a person with creative ideas that can help in making right decisions and pay attention in work. Individuals who sleep well excel in activities such as learning and playing the piano.

• Sleep takes care of heart and blood circulation as well. It repairs blood vessels. Excess deficiency in sleep leads to heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disorder and diabetes among other diseases.

• Proper sleep will decrease the tendency of obesity. This test was run on teenagers and it showed that sleep deficit results in obesity. This holds true not only for teenagers but other age groups as well.

• Sleep helps to prevent hormonal imbalance of body. Sleep deprivation can increase the secretion of the hormone ghrelin which makes one feel hungry. At the same time, it reduces the levels of the satiety hormone leptin.

• Sleep affects the effectiveness of insulin in the body. The hormones controlling glucose level in the blood goes high when there is a deficiency in sleep. This increases the risk and tendency of diabetes.

• When in deep sleep, the body releases a special hormone in children and teenagers to increase the normal growth. This hormone is also responsible for increasing muscle power of a human body. Sleep is important for increasing fertility among pubescent teenagers as well.

• The body’s immune system is also dependent largely on sleep. It protects the body from any foreign germ attack. Less sleep can affect the immune system of a body. Proper sleep will help in recovery from local contagious and infectious diseases.

• Factors like micro sleep can be avoided with enough sleep in the daytime. It is a type of sleep that can occur any time when a sleep deficit person is sitting idly. It might happen while one is listening to a lecture or watching a TV show which is not very interesting.

Sleep is very essential however some people do not take the side-effects of sleep deprivation that seriously. Sleep can affect the health condition of people ranging from doctors, lawyers, students, teachers to even workers and mechanics. It can cause a range of diseases, from obesity to diabetes which is why one should try to get 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.