Hari the Hadron

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

SLEEP YOUR WAY TO A HEALTHY LIFE

I had just read in a magazine about the importance of adequate sleep at night for a healthy living. It has been said that lack of adequate sleep can cause serious health disorders and diseases. Researchers have found that during the sleep our brain produces a hormone called Melatonin which is responsible for a natural reduction of heart rate and Blood Pressure at night during sleep. The production and release of this hormone is stimulated in the brain only during sleep and in the absence of light and that is why the importance of an adequate sleep at night.

The Melatonin along with cortisol and oestrogen prevent our body from contracting a lot of diseases including certain types of cancers.

So friends, whatever may be your busy work schedules and social commitments, please make sure you get a good night’s sleep as this would not only keep you physically and mentally refreshed, but also would protect you from serious diseases.

posted by hari at 4:21 PM

18 Comments:

  • Hi everybody. please feel free to comment. Even criticism would be a compliment.

    By Blogger hari, at 2:51 AM  

  • hey hari,
    and some of us have a prob with wanting to sleep all the time! btw, hari, the pics will be up tonight.
    cheers!

    By Blogger Houseowner, at 4:25 AM  

  • Ha, I bet I have more melatonin than anybody! :)

    By Blogger Shammi, at 4:37 AM  

  • Hey,

    I'm already aware that sleep is good, but my question remains tihs one; just how many hours of sleep per day are you supposed to have? I have people saying 8, but then there's other articles claiming that 6 is enough, and more healthy. Sleeping an uneven number of time is said to be unhealthy, because in your sleep you go through cycles that can be broken if you wake up on an uneven time (Such as REM and all that jazz)

    Can anyone enlighten me? :-/

    By Blogger Syrse, at 4:42 AM  

  • Hi Ramya,

    That is true for most of us, but the question is are we really able to translate this want into actual sleep. You pics were fabulous, I have left my comment too.

    By Blogger hari, at 9:48 PM  

  • Hi Shyam,

    You are very lucky Shyam. Look into what Kaush has commented, the more the melatonin you produce, the more healthy you are. So maintain it. There is one more way of looking at it, the more you sleep, the less you would eat due to paucity of time for cooking as well as eating. That way also you would be healthy as you would end up just eating to live.

    By Blogger hari, at 9:48 PM  

  • Hello Syrse,

    Thanks for visiting my blog. Could I also have the privilege of your introduction next time. Anyway all your questions are answered below in the comments posted by Kaush. She has a doctorate in this subject.

    By Blogger hari, at 9:49 PM  

  • Jagan, very valuable tips. Would keep it in mind.

    By Blogger hari, at 9:49 PM  

  • Hi Kaush,

    Are you a doctor by the way. Vow. your comment is a post in itself and made my post just a preamble. Its great to receive such comments which educate us about a lot of simple things to a more healthier life. Thanks, your comments is a value-addition to my post and made it more informative.

    By Blogger hari, at 9:50 PM  

  • ha ha that is why i am so healthy....i am forever sleeping...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...its my fav pastime....

    By Blogger Deepak Jeswal, at 8:41 AM  

  • Good one indeed Hari... Few yrs back, I used to sleep only for 5 hrs or so... even then, if theres a phone ring or SMS beep, I wd wake up and never sleep for the rest of the nite.

    Now things hav changed. In terms of duration, I am sleeping for abt 6 hrs.. but I never wake up to the alarm at all.. patterns hav changed. My wife says that I snore a lot too.. perhaps, thats what one calls "sound sleep".

    btw Hari.. I am working in a different machine at work and hence not doing my blog reads properly.. will return back to my gud old machine soon and be a regular here... thanks for the comment u left in mine..

    By Blogger Chakra, at 5:52 AM  

  • hi hari, nice post.
    these days I happily sleep for 9 hrs. but somehow I can't sleep during the day, even if I try hard. any ideas on that :)

    By Blogger saranyan r, at 1:55 PM  

  • Hi Saranyan,

    Have a oil bath and a heavy lunch. you should be down for atleast 3 hours.

    By Blogger hari, at 4:18 AM  

  • Hi Chakra,

    Welcome back. You are right. Marriage takes away a lot of luxury from our lives.

    By Blogger hari, at 4:19 AM  

  • Hari,

    Really good post and I learnt something to.. now added a new word to my dictionary Melatonin

    Anu

    By Blogger Anu, at 11:58 PM  

  • From a wayfarer,
    I have experienced that anything between 6-8 hours is good sleep based on how you pattern your life. If you are doing strenuous stuff (read "lot of coding" or "tons of reading small print"), you need 8 hours to give your eyes and brain the requisite break. IF you are a light worker with access to more sunlight and fresh air during the day, 6 hours will do just fine. This of course is personal experience and some nuggets from collegues with whom I have discussed about it.

    And as Jagan pointed out, eating and sleeping is the absolute worst you can do to your health and your looks (its the shortest path to the biggest tummy in town). A few years back I switched to eating just fruits at night and I havent felt better all my life.

    And Saranyan, dude, be glad you dont get sleep in the afternoon. By sleeping in the afternoon, you can alter your metabolic patterns in a way that can have bad effects on your body.

    By Blogger The Last Blogger, at 12:18 PM  

  • Hi The Last Blogger,

    Thanks for visiting my site. You have an interesting blog name. Initially when I posted this topic on melatonin,it was out of an intention to spread some good health tips. But now I find that the comments coming through are in fact more informative than the post itself. Thanks for you input and keep visiting.

    By Blogger hari, at 12:44 AM  

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    It’s such a pleasure to read your post …. Interesting! I was over at another site

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    and they didn't go into as much detail as you, but nonetheless interesting.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:54 PM  

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