Sleeping Well is Living Better: March 16 World Sleep Day

If we reach the age of 90 we will have slept 30 years of our life. 30 years to be able to be 60 awake. Sleep is the most important function our brain performs throughout our lives. Without sleep, there is no life. The quality of sleep determines our wakefulness and our quality of life. Dr. Eduard Estivill, prestigious specialist in Sleep Medicine and Clinical Neurophysiology, member of Top Doctors, gives us the details on World Sleep Day.

Sleep is a workshop for repairing, restoring and memorizing everything we spend and learn during the day. Thus, everything we spend during the day we repair and restore during the night. Also what we learn we memorize when we sleep. Memory is configured during sleep. Therefore, the correct functioning of this workshop, sleep, conditions our life.

The necessary hours of sleep depend on age

With this workshop idea, it is understood that the hours of sleep depend on age. Thus, a 6-year-old child, who moves a lot and learns a lot during the day, will need the workshop (sleep) to last between 11 and 12 hours. An adolescent needs 9 hours of sleep, a young adult about 8 hours and, after the age of 65, 6 hours of sleep will be enough, because when we are older we do not move so much and because we have already learned many things.

However, more than 70% of adults sleep less than they need. The current pace of life, stress, daytime tensions and multiple obligations take hours of sleep away from us. As a result, we are irritable, in a bad mood and suffer from memory and performance losses during the day.

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Poor sleep: all sleep disorders can be treated.

There are also many people who sleep badly. There are people who sleep little (they have insomnia), others who sleep a lot and are too sleepy during the day, and those who do not let others sleep: those who snore, those who shake their legs while sleeping, sleepwalkers, those who talk, etc.

All of the above are sleep disorders and all have treatment, and many are completely cured. But we must understand that these sleep disturbances have a cause. And, to solve the problem, we must know the cause. Any treatment must be aimed at treating the cause that produces the alterations. There is no single treatment for a good night’s sleep because there are more than 40 causes of insomnia.

Therefore, it is always advisable to see a specialist in Sleep Medicine, who will perform the necessary tests to make the diagnosis and then recommend the most appropriate treatment.