How sleep affects your body and what you can do to prevent sleep deprivation.
When I was a teenager I probably spent more than half my day sleeping or lying on the sofa napping. Most teens and young adults are like that. Babies, too, of course. They need huge doses of rest and relaxation (between bouts of physical energy and exertion) due to their bodies working overtime to develop and grow. But what about adults? Wasn’t it true that Benjamin Franklin despised sleep and said, “There will be sleeping enough in the grave?” (more…)
