Why Proper Sleep is So Important for You!
The liver requires all the energy it can get to fulfill these and many other responsibilities. This can only happen sufficiently, though, if you sleep during this time period. If you use up the nighttime energy for eating or for mental and physical activities, the liver is left with too ittle energy to do its extremely vital work. The kidneys also need energy during this time period to filter the blood plasma, and keep the body fluids balanced and blood pressure normal.
Although the brain makes up merely 2% of our body mass, it normally contains more than 25% of the body’s entire blood supply. However, during this phase of the night, most of the blood located at the back of the brain moves into the liver for purification. If you are
mentally or physically active at this time, the liver does not receive enough blood to work with, so it cannot cleanse the blood sufficiently. This results in the accumulation of toxic material in the blood stream. If toxins keep circulating in the blood, they will settle in the interstitial fluid (connective tissues) of organs and systems, thereby raising acidity and damaging them, including the liver itself. High blood toxicity can lead to secretions of stress hormones, brain fog, and injured capillaries, arteries and heart muscles. Most heart
disease is the result of a poorly performing liver that is unable to remove all toxic, noxious substances from the blood on a daily basis.
If we do not give the liver the energy it needs to conduct the most basic physiological activities, we sow the seeds of illness throughout
the body. Respiration is an important part of the cleansing and rejuvenation process, with a significant percentage of the body’s waste materials being eliminated through the lungs. This underscores the importance of sleeping in a room with ample ventilation. Sleep can be divided into two main parts – before-midnight and after-midnight. For adults, the most important processes of purification and renewal occur during the two hours of sleep before midnight. This period involves deep sleep, often referred to as “beauty sleep.” It typically lasts for about an hour, from 11 pm to midnight. During this period, you enter a dreamless state of sleep where oxygen consumption in the body drops considerably. This results in profound physical rest and relaxation. The benefit to your body of this single hour of deep sleep is approximately equivalent to that derived during the three hours following midnight, when the oxygen consumption rises again.
Growth factors, commonly known as growth hormones, are secreted profusely during the hour of deep sleep. These powerful hormones are responsible for cellular growth, repair and rejuvenation. People age faster if they don’t produce enough growth hormones. The latest “fashion” in the beauty market is to consume synthetic growth hormones, which create remarkable rejuvenation results, but which also can have devastating side effects, including heart disease and cancer. On the other hand, if the body makes natural growth hormones at the right time and in the correct amounts, as happens during deep sleep, they can help keep the body vital and youthful.
Deep sleep virtually never occurs after midnight and it usually comes only if you go to sleep at least two hours before midnight. If you routinely miss out on deep sleep, your body and mind tend to become overtired. This triggers abnormal stress responses that initiate secretions of stress hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol or cholesterol (yes, cholesterol is a stress hormone that rises with stress!). Once the body’s energy reserves have been depleted, chronic fatigue results. Fatigue can be considered a major contributing factor in today’s health problems. Doctors at the University of California at San Diego have found that losing a few hours of sleep not only makes you feel tired during he following day, but also can affect the immune system, possibly impairing the body’s ability to fight infection. Since immunity diminishes with tiredness, your body is unable to defend itself against bacteria, microbes and viruses, and cannot cope with the
build-up of harmful substances in the body.
2:00 AM to 6:00 AM
The primary focus of the body during this segment of the daily cycle is on moving the body’s waste products from the liver, cells, intestines and other areas of the body towards the organs and systems of detoxification and elimination. The lymphatic system neutralizes harmful microbes, metabolic wastes, cellular debris, worn out cells and cells damaged by disease. The rectum forms fecal matter, which triggers a bowel movement, and the kidneys pass urine to the bladder, which induces urination. The skin also receives waste products that begin to surface at this time; hence, the importance of washing or showering in the morning. To be able to fully support efficient waste removal, the body needs to be awake and in a vertical position. Therefore, it is preferable to awaken and be out of bed slightly before sunrise. Young children and early teenagers have a slightly different melatonin cycle, and may require an extra hour of sleep in the evening and again in the morning.
Summary
Structuring our daily lives in a way that honors our body’s natural cycles is one of the most important things we can do to enhance our health and well-being. There are inevitably situations that arise in life that necessitate making exceptions to our normal daily cycle. But the more consistently we maintain a regular pattern of living, the better we are able to support our body’s natural processes of health and regeneration.
Although the brain makes up merely 2% of our body mass, it normally contains more than 25% of the body’s entire blood supply. However, during this phase of the night, most of the blood located at the back of the brain moves into the liver for purification. If you are
mentally or physically active at this time, the liver does not receive enough blood to work with, so it cannot cleanse the blood sufficiently. This results in the accumulation of toxic material in the blood stream. If toxins keep circulating in the blood, they will settle in the interstitial fluid (connective tissues) of organs and systems, thereby raising acidity and damaging them, including the liver itself. High blood toxicity can lead to secretions of stress hormones, brain fog, and injured capillaries, arteries and heart muscles. Most heart
disease is the result of a poorly performing liver that is unable to remove all toxic, noxious substances from the blood on a daily basis.
If we do not give the liver the energy it needs to conduct the most basic physiological activities, we sow the seeds of illness throughout
the body. Respiration is an important part of the cleansing and rejuvenation process, with a significant percentage of the body’s waste materials being eliminated through the lungs. This underscores the importance of sleeping in a room with ample ventilation. Sleep can be divided into two main parts – before-midnight and after-midnight. For adults, the most important processes of purification and renewal occur during the two hours of sleep before midnight. This period involves deep sleep, often referred to as “beauty sleep.” It typically lasts for about an hour, from 11 pm to midnight. During this period, you enter a dreamless state of sleep where oxygen consumption in the body drops considerably. This results in profound physical rest and relaxation. The benefit to your body of this single hour of deep sleep is approximately equivalent to that derived during the three hours following midnight, when the oxygen consumption rises again.
Growth factors, commonly known as growth hormones, are secreted profusely during the hour of deep sleep. These powerful hormones are responsible for cellular growth, repair and rejuvenation. People age faster if they don’t produce enough growth hormones. The latest “fashion” in the beauty market is to consume synthetic growth hormones, which create remarkable rejuvenation results, but which also can have devastating side effects, including heart disease and cancer. On the other hand, if the body makes natural growth hormones at the right time and in the correct amounts, as happens during deep sleep, they can help keep the body vital and youthful.
Deep sleep virtually never occurs after midnight and it usually comes only if you go to sleep at least two hours before midnight. If you routinely miss out on deep sleep, your body and mind tend to become overtired. This triggers abnormal stress responses that initiate secretions of stress hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol or cholesterol (yes, cholesterol is a stress hormone that rises with stress!). Once the body’s energy reserves have been depleted, chronic fatigue results. Fatigue can be considered a major contributing factor in today’s health problems. Doctors at the University of California at San Diego have found that losing a few hours of sleep not only makes you feel tired during he following day, but also can affect the immune system, possibly impairing the body’s ability to fight infection. Since immunity diminishes with tiredness, your body is unable to defend itself against bacteria, microbes and viruses, and cannot cope with the
build-up of harmful substances in the body.
2:00 AM to 6:00 AM
The primary focus of the body during this segment of the daily cycle is on moving the body’s waste products from the liver, cells, intestines and other areas of the body towards the organs and systems of detoxification and elimination. The lymphatic system neutralizes harmful microbes, metabolic wastes, cellular debris, worn out cells and cells damaged by disease. The rectum forms fecal matter, which triggers a bowel movement, and the kidneys pass urine to the bladder, which induces urination. The skin also receives waste products that begin to surface at this time; hence, the importance of washing or showering in the morning. To be able to fully support efficient waste removal, the body needs to be awake and in a vertical position. Therefore, it is preferable to awaken and be out of bed slightly before sunrise. Young children and early teenagers have a slightly different melatonin cycle, and may require an extra hour of sleep in the evening and again in the morning.
Summary
Structuring our daily lives in a way that honors our body’s natural cycles is one of the most important things we can do to enhance our health and well-being. There are inevitably situations that arise in life that necessitate making exceptions to our normal daily cycle. But the more consistently we maintain a regular pattern of living, the better we are able to support our body’s natural processes of health and regeneration.
Posted by Andreas Moritz at May 31, 2010 
Categories: Everyday Wellness
Tags: vital sleep immunity and sleep liver sleep cycles sleep breathing rest liver and sleep
Categories: Everyday Wellness
Tags: vital sleep immunity and sleep liver sleep cycles sleep breathing rest liver and sleep
In the way to the fusion between matter and energy, it's a revelation to see our body, as a divine creation full of potentialities to awaken and enhance our spiritual development. In that sense is very empowering to read: "Structuring our daily lives in a way that honors our body’s natural cycles...". Yes, here overcome the duality body/soul involves, necessarily, a process of honoring Life in its physical manifestations.
Warmly,
José Brito
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Thank you very much for your great comment. Our body is indeed a divine instrument to enhance our spiritual presence here.
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Wow! First when you wrote about honor our body’s natural cycles, the concept honor motivate my comment, and now is your concept of instrument that inspires a new one.
Thank you very much for your support and for giving the opportunity to have an “internet conversation” with you.
Seeing our body as a divine instrument it’s a heuristic metaphor for increasing our understanding of “the big picture”, and also to catalyze more effective changes in our life. Now, making an analogy with learning to play violin brings us good insights. Usually a violin teacher will say to a new student that he must try, with all the patience, not giving up before two years of practicing. This means the student needs a good amount of humble persistence in order to reach and feel the amazing potentialities of the violin. In the beginning the musician and the instrument are disharmonious, separate entities. But with talent and practice, duality start to melt, inspiration grows and finally, they become One. At that point the interpenetration between the artist and his tools can no longer be understood by analytical mind, without loosing it. We only can feel that ineffable fusion of soul and matter. When we ear music or saw paintings (like yours) that deeply touch our soul and catalyze a connection with a contemplative meditative state, we enter in the field of pure faith, the faith that True Love is the Ultimate Reality.
Now if we substitute musician by soul and violin by body we can use this analogy to help us understand why personal development is the most challenging purpose of human life. I’m using here personal development in the sense that, as spiritual beings passing through a human experience, our real task is to spiritualize, energize our bodies. But at the same time, we are in the process of discover/remember that our body is also a divine instrument, which opens the doors of possibilities to an unbelievable fusion between matter and energy. Each day increases the evidence, that by changing our perceptions, we are taking part in an amazing quantum leap in the evolution/transformation of the Universe. The reach of this cosmic movement is a big mystery and the most exciting reason to actively defy our limited beliefs.
Warmly,
José Brito
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You said this so beautifully. I think you ought to have a blog, Facebook page book, or website where you share you profound insights with others.
Thank you for sharing here, Jose.
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You are very kind, Andreas. For me is an honor to further develop a synergic interchange of ideas with you. At the same time is a way to do homage to this precious blog and to all readers that keep it alive.
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I'm sure this is all correct, but no matter how hard I try I cannot get up at 6am. Going to bed before 10pm, eating dinner by 7pm etc, I still lie awake for hours and can't get up early the next morning; all the while beating myself up knowing that I'm ruining my body. And on top of all that we can only eat 2 cupped handfuls of food per meal, consisting of only grains and vegetables. Why did nature make it so excruciatingly difficult and hard to have healthy bodies? Are we meant to suffer like this...?
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It can take some time to re-balance the hormones, just like during jet lag.
No, all life in nature is effortless and suffering shouldn't be part of it. Nature doesn't make it difficult for us. We make choices in life that don't harmonize with nature, and this is what we call suffering. A stream doesn't complain about having to flow left and right. Struggle is a sign of resistance, not being in the flow.
If you cannot sleep, at the times nature calls for, it's either because of overeating, eating stimualting foods like meat, having a congested liver that doesn't remove toxins properly, or worrying. Cleansing the liver and gallbladder has helped millions return to good health.
There is no point doing something you don't enjoy doing. If you hate doing something, don't do it for this harms you more. When you love assisting your body in its work, it will be a joy, not a struggle. Until then, live your life the way you want to. Nobody can tell you what you need to do.
I eat plenty of wonderful foods, deliciously prepared vegetables, salads, fruits, grain foods, legumes, nuts, seeds. spices, herbs, oils, butter, ghee, coconut oil, coconut cream, etc. The variety of food preparation is endless. Eating needs to be highly pleasurable for the body to be and remain healthy.
Warmly, Andreas
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Thank you very much, Fidel. I really appreciate your kind words. Warmly, Andreas
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Many other blogs do not cover the topics that are instead covered here
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This is fine. Thank you, Andreas.
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Yes, please do. Thank you.
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