Do you feel well rested?

Improve Your Quality of Sleep!

Sleep plays an integral role in health. A good night’s sleep empowers the body to recover and lets you wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day. Unfortunately, many people have sleep problems and don’t get the rest that they need. Insufficient sleep and poor quality sleep can be due to diverse factors including sleep disorders, medical conditions, and mental health.

While sleep is too complex to sum up with only numbers, reviewing basic facts and figures about sleep can help you understand how sleep works, why it’s important, and the depth of the sleep deprivation problem in the United States.

Statistics About How We Sleep

• In a normal sleep period, a person experiences four to six sleep cycles.
• REM sleep makes up between 20-25% of total sleep in healthy adults.
• On average, we spend about two hours per night dreaming.
• Body temperature during sleep drops by one to two degrees fahrenheit.
• Metabolism drops by around 15% during NREM sleep.

Source: Sleep Foundation