How Much Sleep Do You Need for Quality Rest, and Does Our Body Really Need It?
Getting the right amount of sleep is essential for your body and mind. Discover how many hours of quality sleep you need each night to support energy, focus, recovery, and overall well-being, while creating healthier and more comfortable sleep habits.
The world can’t stop going about its business when it comes to healthy living, what it truly means, and what we need to do or add to our daily life to be fitter. The thing is, we truly want to be fit and healthy and we do so much, from investing in a morning yoga routine to Satvik diet plans, only to maintain our A game when it comes to a healthy lifestyle. Nowadays, we even have ‘healthy’ restaurants that serves diet conscious recipe to their customers. But in the midst of all this, we forget about the bigger and most crucial part of our lives, that goes in sleeping. After all, an average human being spends about 1/3rd of his life sleeping.
Sleep is the most vital part of our lives. Our body undergoes several transformations while we sleep. It restores, repairs, & rejuvenate itself to promote good health. Our quality of sleep and sleeping patterns affect our brain and body functioning, such as memory power, mood, concentration, metabolism and the immune system etc., which are all regulated and controlled by how much and how well we sleep. Thus, getting an adequate amount of sleep is as essential for our health as getting the right kind of diet and proper exercise. But do we know how much sleep we really need?
Recommended Hours of Sleep
Experts have divided the number of hours of sleep requirement of an individual as per the age group he/she belongs to. These age groups of an individual, along with hours of sleep requirement per day, are listed below:
- Newborns (0–3 months): 14–17 hours
- Infants (4–12 months): 12–15 hours (including naps)
- Toddlers (1–2 years): 11–14 hours (including naps)
- Preschoolers (3–5 years): 10–13 hours (including naps)
- School children (6–13 years): 9–11 hours
- Teenagers (14–17 years): 8–10 hours
- Adults (18–64 years): 7–9 hours
- Older adults (65+): 7–8 hours
However, ascertaining how much sleep a person may need depends on several other factors listed below.
Genetics
Every Individual has a unique biological cycle and every human body responds differently to different sleep patterns. Some individuals sleep long hours at night; others may sleep less at night but indulge in daytime naps. What works for one individual may not work for another. Some individuals may need less than the recommended amount of sleep; others may need more, and that’s where genetics plays a role. However, there is no practical way to find out about one’s genetic mutation other than to pay attention to our body and its needs.
Some people, even after taking daytime naps and sleeping for long hours at night, still feel sleep-deprived. That usually happens when you aren’t getting quality sleep.
Quality Sleep
The truth is, many of us sleep but struggle hard to find a good posture to sleep in, and when we don’t get one, we feel sleep-deprived in the morning even after sleeping longer than the recommended hours; that usually leads to poor quality sleep. Poor quality of sleep has hazardous effects on our body as well as mental well-being. We usually feel groggy, tired and unable to concentrate after we don’t get good quality sleep at night. The condition may worsen if we continue to be deprived of quality sleep for a longer period of time, such as memory loss, mood swings, low sex drive, weaken immune system, obesity and increase risk of cancer and heart disease.
Researchers have found that a good, comfortable sleeping posture promotes better quality of sleep as well as contributing significantly to our physical health and emotional vitality. But those struggles of the night when we toss and turn and do the labor of adjusting our pillows throughout the night to get a comfortable posture only result in disturbed sleep and lessen our chances of getting quality sleep at night.
Rather than adjusting ourselves throughout the night, it’s better to adjust our beds as per our liking.
Adjustable Beds
Feelgood Sleep Systems offers adjustable beds as well as contour beds designed especially to ensure better sleep quality and optimal customer satisfaction. It helps us customize and align the position of our bed with our body so that we don’t spend our nights tossing and turning for a comfortable sleeping posture.
There are a number of reported health benefits of adjustable beds:
- It helps prevent sleep apnea, asthma and snoring.
- It reduces acid reflux and heartburn.
- It prevents back pain and leg swelling.
- It boosts metabolism and improves digestion.
- It promotes better blood circulation.
- It relieves arthritis and provides relief from the pressure on joints.
Adjustable beds are not just useful for good sleeping posture but also help us provide a comfortable position while we read a book or surf the internet. If we want to rest after a hard-working day or just need a massage, it’s available at the press of a button with Contour Elite Beds.
Some of the features of adjustable beds by Feelgood Sleep Systems are listed below :
- One-touch flat & Zero G position
- Head and foot control
- Two programmable positions (Setup TV/Reading Position)
- Power outage protection
- Zero Standby Power System
- Head and foot Massage
- Under-Bed lightning
- Bluetooth & dual USB ports
This adjustable bed can be styled and accommodated as per our liking and bodily needs. These adjustable beds are a must in today’s restless lifestyle. We spend so much to keep our body healthy by investing in rigorous diet plans and expensive gym memberships; then why do we care so little when it comes to the quality of our sleep? After all it’s contributes significantly to our mental and physical well-being. If we are really concerned about our health and fed up of finding a good, comfortable sleep position at night, then it’s high time we say goodbye to those daily sleep struggles and say yes to adjustable beds.
