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How Stress Affects Your Ability To Sleep Well
Are you resistant against extreme arousal?
Having problems falling asleep?
Maybe you think you have problems falling asleep?
No?
Either way, something has happened which has made you think. Think about it..
When we are under constant stress there is a big chance it messes your sleep up. What you can state from stress is that it acts on our central nervous system. Stress also has the tendency to drain certain nutrients faster. The process of thinking consumes more than you ought to think. Your brain consumes a terrific percentage of your total daily energy requirement. So pay focussed attention if you are not drained out already.
Key elements are to take care of are:
- Electrolytes
- Fluid
Even when you think it is not, stress factors can prevent you from getting the sleep quality you need. Too much stress can put the emotional load so high that it will prevent you from getting sleep and if not, it will cause variation in sleep times. Chronic stress throughout the day has an indirect effect to kick you out of a great circadian rhythm.
When actually willing to fall asleep, stress hormones like cortisol can even wake you up before you’ve entered…
