It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: For so He giveth His beloved sleep. (Psalm 127:20)The best bridge between hope And despair is often a good night's sleep. Medical researchers are coming to what may seem to be a common sense conclusion: a missing ingredient to health may be "vitamin Zzzzzzz."
When participants in one study were cheated out of four hours of sleep of four consecutive nights, they had on average a 30 percent drop in their immune systems, as measured by natural killer-cell activity. Such a crop can readily increase a person's suscepitibility to colds and flue, and perhaps to other serious diseases. Says Sleep researcher Michael Irvin, M.D., "Many just need a regular-length sleep to get those natural killer cells revved up again."
While a steady diet of sufficient sleep may not completely prevent disease, it can improve the body's defense system and help a person combat disease more efficiently and effectively.
Sleep is the cheapest health aid a person can "take." Sleep is God's own means of restoring health to the body, as well as providing rest to the mind. Many have reported a new outlook or a change of heart after a good night's sleep.
When participants in one study were cheated out of four hours of sleep of four consecutive nights, they had on average a 30 percent drop in their immune systems, as measured by natural killer-cell activity. Such a crop can readily increase a person's suscepitibility to colds and flue, and perhaps to other serious diseases. Says Sleep researcher Michael Irvin, M.D., "Many just need a regular-length sleep to get those natural killer cells revved up again."
While a steady diet of sufficient sleep may not completely prevent disease, it can improve the body's defense system and help a person combat disease more efficiently and effectively.
Sleep is the cheapest health aid a person can "take." Sleep is God's own means of restoring health to the body, as well as providing rest to the mind. Many have reported a new outlook or a change of heart after a good night's sleep.
Ask God to renew your strength as you sleep tonight. Then get to bed on time so He can give you what you requested.
Shared by : Nancy Nemetchek
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