Sleep is very important; while you sleep, your body and brain prepare for the next day. Your brain forms new pathways to help you learn and process information. Sleep is therefore a crucial indicator of overall health and well-being.
The quality of your sleep has a direct impact on your mental and physical health, as well as your productivity, emotional balance, brain and heart health, immune system, creativity and vitality. This means that sleep also plays an important role in the functioning of our brain. Severe sleep deprivation seriously affects the parts of our brain that control language, memory, planning and creation; these parts of the brain are then switched off. Needless to say, you need to get enough sleep.
But how many hours of sleep do you really need? It depends on your age! Read it on the next page.