Why should you care?

Not enough or poor quality sleep can have many negative consequences for our overall health and wellbeing and can increase risks for other medical conditions:

• feeling exhausted, sleepy or fatigued
• feeling irritable, depressed or anxious
• decreased performance
• brain fog, poor memory
• increased accidents
• obesity
• cardiovascular conditions such as high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, arrhythmias
• weakened immune function
• decreased sex drive
• increased pain
• diabetes mellitus or kidney disease
• cancer
• headaches and many more.

If you have a sleep disorder this can also disturb your bed-partner’s sleep.