The Need For Sleep

Right now, caffeine seems like it has nothing to do with your sleep cycle. But it actually has a lot to do with it. Caffeine and adenosine have identical binding structures (show nitrogen rings) which means when you drink coffee, caffeine binds to those adenosine receptors and stays there. But because caffeine has no effect on your neurons it just stays there taking up space. Well, then what’s the problem? Because caffeine is taking up the receptors which are meant to bind with adenosine, adenosine

What is sleep and why do you need it? People have many different theories of why we need it but if we don’t sleep how can it hurt us. Many people can be affected by different amounts of sleep. So how can you get better sleep or even just less without feeling the effects or tiredness. So how can sleep really affect your mood?

“Why do we sleep?” is a very popular questions that many humans ask today. Sleep is very sufficient to the human body. If it was not important, then God would not have designed for a third of our life to be occupied by sleep. During this time period, many people are interested to know what is a good amount of sleep and what are the harmful effects to not getting enough sleep.

There are a few factors that are essential for life such as breathing or eating, but one of the most essential factor is sleep. Even though the amount of sleep people need differs from one individual to another, the fact is that eventually everyone needs to sleep. People know the importance of sleep, but due to the increased workload and the pressure of society people are getting less sleep. As a result, there has been an increase interest on the effects lack of sleep has on the mind especially the memory of a person. Many questions arose about the relationship between sleep and memory due to the fact most high school and college students have become sleep deprived. For example, does more sleep mean higher grades?

As a busy teen in high school, involved in many activities, I do not have much time for myself to relax and let my mind rest. When I come home from a long day of school, I still have homework that needs to get done. I go to sleep late and have to wake up early the next morning to get ready for school. Evidence from this article by Maria Konnikova proves that the stress I experience from my lack of sleep is not an exaggeration. Because I do not get quality sleep and I do not sleep long enough, my mind fogs throughout the day and my mood worsens because of my drowsiness. As I get more tired throughout the day, I become more hyper, having little control over my actions and responses. This coincides with the theory that inadequate sleep results

Sleep is one of the unavoidable daily-living activities and it is one of the most important factors contributing to a person’s health. A quality sleep is essential for the physical, cognitive and psychological well-being of a person. Learning, memory processing and maintenance of the brain are among the most important functions of sleep. In addition to maintaining the brain, sleep has important roles in controlling the

Tests performed on these theories show that animals deprived from sleep suffer from a loss of all their immune system functions and inevitably die from this in only a few weeks’ time. Studies show that muscle growth, tissue repair, protein synthesis, and growth hormones are most active while you sleep, and even a few are only active while you sleep. While we are conscious and awake our brain produces a chemical called adenosine, this chemical is thought to be the cause of why we feel tired at times and feel the need to sleep, this chemical is countered by caffeine. That explains why you feel more awake and alert after drinking that cup of Joe. Caffeine actually blocks the receptors for adenosine making that feeling of being tired and not alert diminish. While you sleep it gives the body a chance to clear the adenosine from the system, in turn making you feel “refreshed” and not tired when you wake up from your slumber.

Seven and a half to nine hours per night, does the average American really have that time to spare? About “35 percent of adults in the United States report less than seven hours of sleep during a typical 24 hour period,” said Michael Twery, a Di-rector of National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute(1). There are multiple reasons that our beauty sleep may get inter-rupted. Having too much on your mind, hormones getting out of control, empty stomach or even our beloved smartphones. Have you ever wondered what we’re really doing to our bodies when we go without the proper amount of shut eye?

Sleep is a curious occurrence. It is a process that occurs only with time, a suitable environment, and willingness to do so (Helvig). Everyone has to sleep; however, not everyone’s sleep is the same. “In adult studies, it has been pointed out that no exact amount of ‘optimal’ sleep exists” (Dewald-Kaufmann 172). This would suggest that everyone has a different length of sleep they must achieve. If they do not, they will experience negative symptoms that develop exponentially over time (Dewald-Kaufmann 179). This works conversely, also, that a good night’s rest can aid the human body in many ways. Even though this is a simple concept to understand, it is a difficult concept to explain. One huge question that no one has been able to definitively answer is: why do we sleep? Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to look at the effects of a surplus of sleep and a lack of sleep.

We go on to learn that there is a connection between sleep and adenosine and that it is the chemical that helps the body know when sleep is needed. “a powerful sleep drive builds up with prolonged wakefulness and shifts the balance toward sleep. How this occurs is not precisely known, but adenosine is one of the chemicals thought to accumulate during prolonged wakefulness. When it does, it serves to

The source I chose to evaluate is an article called “Sleep to Succeed ” . It’s a U.S. News article published on July 22,2015 , at 10:55 a.m. I found this article on the internet. It was originally published by U.S. News on their website www.usnews.com . It’s about teen sleep deprivation how its a serious issue for adolescents and how it effects them emotional and behaviorally . A research and intervention project at Stanford University has found out that sleep deprivation is accurate in some schools . The Night Sleep foundation recommends adolescents about eight to 10 hours of sleep at night. However , high schoolers from across the country get 6.8 hours a sleep which is below the national recommendation . Research have shown how important

Caffeine affects sleep in many diverse ways: it increases the adrenaline and instructs the brain that you do not want to fall asleep by blocking certain chemicals. In addition, it can really mess with the ability to stay asleep for any respectable amount of time. Whenever this happens, the sleep

Caffeine seems to boost the energy level. I guess that’s why so many of us drink caffeinated drinks.Weather we need to get that extra boost in order to get that special assignment paper completed, or to just make it through out the day. It seems like I consume a lot of caffeine in a day. When the day comes to a close and I have consumed three or more caffeinated drinks; I sometimes wonder about the effects that caffeine could have on my sleep. This paper will provide evidence to answer the question: What effects do caffeine have on sleep?

I would argue that sleep is required for survival depending on how you look at it. Even though there is no documented proof that a healthy human being has died from sleep, there are many other ways on why it is needed for survival. It has been proven in the lab that pulling an all nighter for just one night is the equivalent to being drunk. That being said, reckless driving will most likely occur, and if you're not paying attention and being alert, you will most likely get into a car crash and injure yourself or even die. The typical person needs to go out (and drive) to get food so that they can survive. If they can't do this, or they can but it's dangerous, I'd say sleep is required for survival in this area unless you want to get in a car

 The goal is to avoid, "clocks on collision," and to allow internal clocks to match external clocks, this is why night shifts are often on weekly rotation.