Fact: a terrible night’s sleep (or an all nighter) can leave you feeling awful the next day. Unfortunately, more than 60 million Americans suffer from poor sleep and over one third of Americans don’t get at least the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep each night. Clearly, the importance of sleep is not spoken about nearly enough, says Melissa Snover, registered nutritionist, and CEO and founder of Nourished.
Sleep is how your body rejuvenates and restores itself. That’s why we need to “wake up to the importance of sleep, pun intended,” says Abhinav Singh, M.D., M.P.H., facility director at the Indiana Sleep Center. “It is vitally important for the entire body, head to toe. Every organ system relies on repairing and restoring itself while sleeping.”
A lack of sleep, or sleep de...