February 25, 2013
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How To Ensure Getting Down With The Sickness
This past weekend was my annual weekend long party with a group of friends at one of their houses. A good time is always ensured but so is a lack of sleep. Most of these weekends I can count on one hand the total number of hours of sleep I get for the entire weekend. This weekend was a little different……….I managed to get about seven total hours of sleep. Just like every year, I always take the Monday off work so that I can sleep in and recover. Shit, I’ve got a ton of vacation time so using a day is not a big deal.
But back to the lack of sleep. Now I might be talking out of my ass or have no clue as to what I’m talking about, but I’ve long said that proper amounts of sleep goes a long way towards keeping people healthy and fighting off sickness. Case in point, by last night I started to develop a cold, which has manifested into a full blown cold today, which is probably due in part to my lack of sleep over the weekend. It is rare when I’m sick or even have a cold but I have noticed that the times I do get sick or get a cold it is usually after a couple nights of poor sleep.
The general accepted amount of sleep one should get is eight hours a night. I try to get about seven hours a night. You can get by with six to eight which I consistently fall into and therefore am not often tired or sick. I’ve got a friend who never gets enough sleep; often times she tells me how she only slept three or four hours the previous night. And yet, she does get sick often. My brother on the other hand gets about eight hours of sleep and often times goes years without getting sick. While this might not be enough proof to say that I’m right when I stress how important sleep is, I think it is certainly a starting point.
Comments (2)
I really have to agree with you. I rarely get sick, and when I do, I get hit really hard, and it’s when I’ve been under a lot of stress or I’ve been lacking in sleep for a while. I always make sure to get at least 6-8 hours every night, and if there are nights when I can’t get at least 7, then I’ll make up for it the next day and get in a couple of extra hours.
When somebody is sick one of the first things they tell you to do is get a lot of rest. in addtion, whenever you are sick, all you wanna do is sleep. I think that is your body’s way of telling you that you need sleep for you to recover.