Clearly remembered past mid-2014, the news of the death of a woman who works as a copywriter who worked nonstop for 30 hours. Mita Diran, worked at an advertising agency, when it was working nonstop for three days without a break. To keep be awakened, she was drink a variety of energy drinks.
The case is proof of how the activity of sleep is very important. The incident was also confirmed how stimulant energy drinks can be bad if not used wisely.
In medicine, sleeping touted as the most holistic activity. When sleep is interrupted, then the entire metabolism system will be disrupted.
Unfortunately, the demands of life are increasingly, making a lot of people ignore the health of sleep. Even if the body feels less fit or not strongly resist drowsiness the next day, the majority of people will choose short cuts as a solution. Many people choose to consume caffeinated beverages or energy drink as a way to eliminate sleepiness.
Though the function of caffeine and energy drinks was just as procrastinators drowsiness. However, the brain is already tired still will not function optimally, so that the level of concentration also decreased.
This 7 ways can help to make it easier to sleep on time
Identify Biological time
Get to know our biological time when need to sleep. No matter if we are only able to sleep at midnight. But keep in mind, try the sleep duration was reached 7-8 hours each day, so that tomorrow we can still move well, more productive, focused and happy. When the unmet needs enough sleep, everything will fall apart.
Set night lamp
The lighting is too bright will inhibit the production of melatonin (a hormone that regulates blood rhythms, reproduction, and the immune system) that can only be produced when it is dark. To that end, better turn off the room lights when going to bed. If you can not sleep in the dark, use only lights were not too bright.
Adjust your eating habits
Adjust your diet also determine the quality of sleep. Most importantly, do not eat too much before bed, because it will disrupt the quality of sleep. Conversely, eating too little is not good, because it could trigger famine in the middle of the night. Remember, avoid the consumption of nicotine and alcohol two hours before bedtime. Also avoid caffeine and chocolate at night, because it makes our brains will be happy and do not feel sleepy.
Lightweight Sport and Leisure
Many people make mistakes, eg, exercising at night before bed, so feel tired and can get to sleep. In fact, do strenuous exercise come home after work can make cause difficult to sleep.
It could be exercise at night before bed, but choose a kind of sport that is both recreational and relaxing that can improve sleep quality. For example, running while listening to music without a specific target. Most importantly, the sport can relieve the soul, so that sleep is more optimal for healthy.
Stay away from your Gadget
Playing gadget before bedtime can spoil 'concentration' to sleep. When the brain and the body feels tired, but still forced to play gadget will disrupt the quality of sleep. Lights blink or voice notifications from gadgets will disturbed concentrate for sleep, because curious to find out while there any notifications.
The solution, keep gadgets out of reach while sleeping. The emitted light screen gadget also affect our biological time.
Avoid Sleeping Pills
It's okay to occasionally consume sleeping pills when absolutely necessary. But, do not make it a habit because it will make us a dependency. Surely we do not want it when sleep behavior 100% determined by the dr*gs. Make sure that the consumption of sleeping pills in a doctor's supervision.
Create atmosphere as comfortable as possible
Sleep environment plays a major role determining the quality of sleep. If we're not comfortable with sleeping environment, it will disturbed sleep activity. For that, create a sleep environment as comfortable as possible. Select the bed is not too soft or hard.
