Entry #2

 Entry #2

The importance of sleep

When you are an athlete, student, worker, etc., you must take care of something significant: sleep. But why is sleep so important? First, a healthy amount of sleep is vital for "brain plasticity," or the brain's ability to adapt to input. If we sleep too little, we cannot process what we've learned during the day and have more trouble remembering it in the future. That is why I want to talk about this topic since people put aside something so crucial for human beings that it helps us with our day and lives.

Sleeping might sound like something very easy for everyone, but when you ask someone that question, they will most likely answer that they sleep between 5 to 7 hours. Something that is not right to do since we should sleep at least 8 hours a day. But each person will depend on the hours they sleep since age represents and makes us sleep more or fewer hours. Older adults are usually the people who sleep fewer hours than usual. They usually sleep between 2 to 2 and a half hours less than normal. However, adolescents depend greatly on their life and mentality since they will know why they sleep less or more hours than they should. Researchers say that adequate sleep is crucial for staying healthy. People can have different needs in terms of how much they require. University of California at San Francisco researchers Ying-Hui Fu and Louis Ptáček discovered a short sleeping gene in 2009. Because of a bad dream or not being able to sleep well one night, you will most likely have problems focusing on your things and other things.

Finally, the hours of sleep will always depend on each person since each has their own life and knows what to do. Even if you present symptoms such as illness, energy, and other things, you are to blame since we have to start thinking that the hours of sleep are the ones that could define our next day as well as our attitude, feelings, etc.