Everyone knows how wonderful it feels to wake up after a refreshing sleep. But you may not know just how critical getting a full night of sleep is to your health and to achieving optimal mental performance. In this post, we’re going to give you a sense of why sleep is so important to your brain, and offer some actionable sleep tips and tricks that will help you wake up feeling amazing.
WHY SLEEP MATTERS SO MUCH TO YOUR BRAIN-MIND PERFORMANCE
Neuroscientist Jeff Iliff explains that sleep and sleep quality are essential to maintaining brain function. The intense electrical activity undertaken by the brain consumes one-quarter of the body’s entire supply of energy. Consuming that much energy means that clearing waste from the brain is a major challenge. It’s the clear cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that meets this challenge, flushing wastes from throughout the brain and moving it into the blood. However, this only happens in the sleeping brain—never during waking hours.
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