Restorative sleep is so important to our body’s ability to heal itself. Not getting enough restorative sleep makes your body feel the way you feel on one of those days when you are really stressed out and something else major goes wrong. You feel like if you were able to go on vacation and regroup, you could handle the whole situation so much better.
Here are a few tips to get some of that great restorative sleep:
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Sometimes getting that all important sleep can be a cat and mouse hunt trying to find the best way to do it, however, the benefits are well worth it!
Those magical hours.
Between the hours of 11pm and 1am, your body, particularly the adrenal glands, is doing the majority of its recharging and recovering.
Also during this time period your gallbladder is dumping most of its toxins to be carried out of your system. Those toxins stop in your liver, further disrupting your health if you are awake during these hours.
Melatonin is produced in absolute darkness so keeping your room dark can help your body produce this natural sleep aid.