Wenatex Blog :: Healthy Sleep for a Better Life

One of the staff in our New Zealand office sent me the link to an interesting article today http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/7181065/lack-of-sleep-linked-to-early-death-study/. The article stated that researchers “aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found “unequivocal evidence of the direct link” between lack of sleep and premature death.”

Unequivocal evidence is hard to refute, don’t you think?

The study proves that, for optimum health, adults must get six to eight hours of sleep per night.

If you cannot achieve that, there are strategies out there to assist you improve the quantity (and the quality for that matter) of your sleep. Spend time to find out what they are and you will see a difference. Wenatex conducts free seminars on the subject of healthy sleep all over Australia and New Zealand. Go to http://www.wenatex.com.au/seminars_registration.asp to register your interest.

Let me know what you think.

Be wise and have fun

Juan

Well, I am always keen to find new and “out of the ordinary” studies, but this one definitely came out of left field. Professor Gerhard Kloesch and his colleagues at the University of Vienna studied eight unmarried, childless couples in their 20s and they came to the conclusion that “When men spend the night with a bed mate, their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day…”

The interesting thing is that all the males that were tested reported that they felt better sleeping with their partners.  Nevertheless, measurement of their relation to hormones and physical abilities demonstrated that they were better having slept alone.

In relation to the females tested, although they also experienced disturbed sleep when sharing the bed, they apparently managed to sleep more deeply when they did eventually drop off, since they claimed to be more refreshed than their sleep time suggested.

I would like your opinion…. Do you think that  bed sharing really drains your brains?

Be wise and have fun

Juan

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