For a very long time, sleep was considered a waste time of little use, hence the tendency of industrial societies to gradually reduce the time allowed for sleeping.
But the damage of chronic sleep deprivation has taught us that it is in fact crucially important for our health.
Drowsiness, concentration problems and mood swings, everyone has already felt the effects of a lack of rest on their daily lives.
In the longer term, the consequences may prove more serious by making the terrain conducive to the establishment of certain pathologies.
It is estimated that the average human spends a third of their life sleeping.
From simple recovery to memorization through learning, sleep provides a wide spectrum of functions complementary to those of wakefulness but very often underestimated.
Why do we need to sleep
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When we talk about sleep, we inevitably think of the brain.
This organ which represents only 2% of our weight is paradoxically…
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