For my research question, I have chosen: How does sleep affect your daily routine?
This topic interests me because sleep is a general necessity in our daily life. I want to learn more on all the benefits of sleep and all the disadvantages of sleep deprivation. I already know that, without sleep, you cannot physically nor mentally function properly whether it be using your brain, physically moving your body, or having any motivation to do anything. When you sleep, your body takes a certain number of hours to get itself back on track for the next day. Your body usually needs around 8-10 hours on average. If one depletes the number of hours of rest time, their bodies will not feel fully prepared for the following day. In general, sleep is very important in human nature and if you don’t use it well, there will be massive struggles that you will have to face the following day, all because you decided not to sleep at the appropriate amount. Some points that I plan to explore and find out more about are what happens when you lose a certain number of hours of sleep? How can this affect your concentration in school? What benefits does having a full 8 hours of sleep have rather than having, let’s say, 4 hours? I have so many questions and wonderings about what sleep does to a human and I will find out the answers to them.
Part 1: MLA Citation
“Does a Bad Night’s Sleep Affect Your Health?” Cleveland Clinic, 28 Oct. 2021, health.clevelandclinic.org/sleep-and-health/.
Part 2: Summary
In the article “Does a Bad Night’s Sleep Affect Your Health?” the author talks about the benefits of sleep and how lack of sleep has its affects on you. There are many long term affects that lack of sleep can do to you. Weather it be functioning properly, concentrating in school, or even different health problems. Sleep is almost like a food. A human needs around 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night to function as a human. If you cannot meet these standards, it can lead to a lot health problems. When you sleep, its feeding your body. Almost like you were eating food to keep yourself nourished. If you cannot sleep to the required amount, its like your failing to eat your proper amount of daily meals. Sleep affects things like your mood. When you don’t sleep, you can’t properly control your emotions. Hence why when you feel tired you feel moody all the time. Your body also can’t properly focus. This is actually a really serious thing because imagine if your driving a car, if you can’t pay proper attention to your surroundings you could get yourself into an accident which could end up being fatal. Lack of sleep also has an effect on your stress hormones. This can lead to increased heart rate and your blood pressure to increase. When you lack sleep, it also affects things like your memories like trying to remember and process information that’s being given to you. When your being given information while your sleepy, its much harder to remember things that you learned or told to you. Sleep also relates to your tissue repairs. When your asleep, your body is working hard to repair itself by releasing proteins and hormones that restore different bodily damages like tissue or mussels as well as fight different illnesses. Putting less hours into the sleep equals less time for your body to make these repairs. All in all, lack of sleep has so many different affects on your body. Frankly, many things listed I didn’t even know until I read this article.
Part 3: Reflection
In the article “Does a Bad Night’s Sleep Affect Your Health?” the author gives a lot of information on the affects of sleep. I have learned a lot from this article. Things that I didn’t even know about the benefits of sleep that seem to get overlooked by most people. I really learned a lot about how sleep is more than just a replenishment for your tiredness but rather a massive necessity that does way more than just keep you awake. Sleep can benefit your health, it can benefit concentration and focus when your in school, work, or pretty much anywhere. It helps with many health issues such as your blood pressure, stress hormones, obesity, and many others. None of which I knew of after reading this article. So now we know all of the true benefits that sleep has on the human body and we should definitely take more advantage of it and not always take it for granted.
Part 4: Rhetorical Analysis
The article “Does a Bad Night’s Sleep Affect Your Health?” is posted on a website called health.clevelandclinic.org and was posted on October 28th, 2021. The writing style the author uses is informative because they list a lot of useful information on how sleep is beneficial and even listed the ones that are super important yet extremely overlooked. The article’s purpose was to inform the readers on how sleep is a high necessity in our daily life and how we should take advantage of it and not think of it as something that can be depleted just so we can spend more time partying all night, every night, or just being on our phones all night long. Cleveland Clinic is a useful and informative source because they are ranked on the top 4 on the American hospitals in the US. as well as been a consecutive 19-year long first ranking in cardiovascular Care. They have also pioneered in many medical breakthroughs, including coronary artery bypass surgery and the first face transplant in the United States. Cleveland Clinic is a popular source in the US and very informative when it comes to its expertise and care.
Part 5: Notable Quotables
“And one or two nights of bad sleep can impair your ability to function well the next day.”
“You know that sleep is a pillar of good health, along with a nutritious diet and regular activity. Not getting that recommended seven to nine hours of slumber a night can contribute to a host of health problems”
“that can have lasting impacts on your heart health, mental health, and cognitive abilities.”
