Sleep recharges your immune system. Chronic sleep deprivation causes measurable immunologic deficits, and optimal immune function is impossible without adequate rest. Even small improvements in sleep habits pay off.
What's an underrated therapy for your immune health? Sleep. Your immune system literally recharges while your body is asleep. People who are chronically sleep deprived will have immunologic deficits and other problems that they see in research, and also people with disrupted sleep. So people with poor sleep cycles, they can keep up. It's one of the things, it's easier said than done when you have a real disrupted sleep cycle or you're chronically sleep deprived, but you need to remember that A lot of immune function cannot get back to its healthiest neutral place if you're not sleeping well. If you're interested in this for continuing medical education at Advanced Applications in Medical Practice, check us out. Category 1 CME from the AMA, and we'll see you there.
