How Important Is A Good Night’s Sleep and Your Productivity?
Everything, including your stress response and hormones that control your appetite and regulate your mood are connected to adequate sleep. What’s more every minute counts according to a new study published by Sleep health (Journal of National Sleep Foundation). This study exposed the fact that just 16 minutes of sleep can negatively affect your productivity.
Soomi Lee, PhD. Assistant professor in the School of Aging Studies, and her colleagues, found that when 130 mid-aged participants slept just 16 fewer minutes, resulted in less effective cognitive issues the next day. “These cyclical associations reflect that employees’ sleep is vulnerable to daily cognitive stress and also a contributor to cognitively stressful experiences,” said Lee.
Shorter sleep duration, or poorer sleep quality, experienced more cognitive challenges. Findings from this study provide substantial evidence for why workplaces need to make more efforts to promote their employees’ sleep. Good sleepers may be better performers at work due to greater ability to stay focused and on task with fewer errors and interpersonal conflicts.
Are Enough Sleep and Regular Bedtimes Necessary?
This study clearly demonstrates that getting enough sleep and regular bedtimes is essential to having a healthy life style. Those people with irregular bedtimes, tend to have worse cardiovascular health and a slower metabolism, than those who have a consistent bedtime.
In conclusion, if you are frequently tired, have gained a little weight and experience brain fog are potentially sleep deprived. In addition, if your emotions are out of control, you catch yourself nodding off during the day and experience frequent bouts of illness, sleep could be the culprit.
Our modern life-style may contribute to a disrupted sleep pattern that can impact your health. Your circadian clock controls your daily cycle of sleep and wakefulness by inhibiting and exciting different parts of your brain. An irregular sleep pattern could be causing stress to your body.
“Sleep is an investment in the energy you need to be effective tomorrow.” Tom Roth Click To Tweet