In different stages of our lives, we need various amounts of sleep. This is naturally the case of humans because our bodies need different amounts of time for cell repair, generation, and restructuring at different stages in our lives. Staring from infancy, our body needs the most amount of sleep, roughly around ten to twelve hours of sleep a day, because in the first four years of our lives, our cells split the fastest and we grow up at the fastest rate relatively compared to the rest of our lives. From ages four until the start of puberty, our brain no longer loses control over sleep unlike during infancy where we cannot control when we go to sleep.
At this stage of our lives, we can experience insomnia, staying up late, and other sleep-related issues. This is because we are in control of our sleep patterns. Children at this age often stay up late into the night, impairing their growth and brain development. Parents would often employ natural treatments for insomnia to healthily induce sleep in their children. This is the reason why parents enforce a strict schedule at this time and often make their children drink milk and eat certain food during dinner.
As puberty rolls in, the more teens are tempted to stay up late because of television, video games, and the night life. Little do they know that this is their best chance to increase their height due to the growth spurts experienced during sleep. Girls often develop earlier than boys because their hormones release the growth hormones earlier than in boys. During this phase in our lives we usually need to sleep at least seven hours in the night in order to enforce proper cell division and mental growth during the night.
In late adolescence, however, our body starts to grow at its prime and our glands and hormones start to get ready for the prime of our lives. At the prime of an average human being’s life, less sleep is needed since most of the growth and cell division has already passed its stage. It is safe for us in this stage to practice different techniques to increase our productivity yet still retain our wakefulness despite the lessening of sleeping time.
Polyphasic sleep, napping, and other methods can be employed to further bolstering the productivity of our working life during this stage. Our brain and body can live even with around 5-6 hours of sleep nightly, if we employ the productivity techniques mentioned in numerous books in the library and articles throughout the internet, especially on easysnooze.com.
When old age catches up at around our late fifties, we tend to sleep less naturally, at around 5 to 7 hours daily, but feel more tired as our bodies age. This is because the cell division and renewal tend to slow down rapidly at this age. In fact some cells in our body tend to collapse and get destroyed more often. We need more sleep than our brain wants to give us, but we can still increase our health and lifespan by sleeping more frequently at this stage in life. Sleeping more often rather than longer will increase brain health, thus affecting our bodily health as well.