Getting enough sleep is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. If you don’t get adequate sleep, your hormones start getting affected. When your body does not produce enough melatonin a hormone that is required to get good sleep, you see a lot of health problems like low energy, fatigue, hormonal imbalance, anxiety, mental health-related issues, and majorly insomnia. So today we will talk about major 4 reasons why you aren’t getting enough sleep.
These 4 reasons can be the ones that are affecting your good night's sleep.
1. Too much screen time before bedtime: Believe it or not, but this is a huge reason for disturbed sleep schedules. When we are habitual of working late at night on our phones or laptops, or we unknowingly scroll our phones till 2 AM, or we binge-watch web series the whole night it affects our melatonin levels badly, which affects our sleep schedule. According to the experts, These should be 0 screen time before at least 2 hours of your bedtime, which means, No phone, laptop, tab, or kindle is allowed. You can read a book, take a long walk, talk to your loved ones or meditate before your bedtime to regulate your sleep schedule.
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2. Wrong Meal Timings: If you are having your meals just before you sleep, you are causing huge problems to your health. Not only your sleep but your digestive system and metabolism also suffer due to the same, so as per the experts there should be a gap of at least 2-3 hours between your dinner and sleep timing. You can consume one cup of milk before you sleep.
3. Unhealthy habits and lifestyle: Lifestyle is a combination of What you eat When you sleep, What you watch, and what your habits are. If everything is inlined and according to your health you won’t suffer, however, if you have unhealthy habits like drinking or smoking, or drinking till late at night to sleep, it can majorly affect your sleep cycle. You may feel you are getting good sleep after the drinks, however, it is affecting your hormones badly. So make sure you don’t have such unhealthy habits or lifestyles to have a good night's healthy sleep.
4. Stress: Your stressful lifestyle, work stress, relationship stress, and overall stress that you have in your daily life because of various reasons, affect your sleep very badly. Even if you manage to sleep on time, you won’t get sound sleep or you must be having weird dreams, which can affect your quality of sleep. Hence inculcating Yog, Meditation and a Positive mindset will help you to manage your stress levels and get a good night's sleep.
Sleep is a basic need of our healthy body and mind, but we tend to ignore and compromise with the most basic thing in our lives, which can harm our health in the long-term basis. Hope this piece of content was helpful for you all, if it was, let us know in the comments section below.
