SLEEP HORMONES IN CHILDREN

SLEEP HORMONES IN CHILDREN

BENEFITS OF EARLY SLEEP

Benefits 1: Produces growth hormones:

 Growth hormone is primarily secreted during deep sleep. Long before your child is a teenager, hormones are already playing a major role in their development. You see, your child’s growth is largely dependent on the secretion of a hormone called ‘human growth hormone (HGH).’

The secretion of this hormone (melatonin) peaks at 10 P.M., again at midnight and then once more at 2 A.M. But here’s the catch – this process doesn’t work properly unless your child is sleeping at those times.

Benefits 2:  Increase Productivity 

Kids who get a better rest have a better attention span (throughout), good mood, health, behavior and can perform better in school.

Benefits 3: Health

 Pediatric researchers' latest findings suggest that sleep is also essential to good health. When kids get the sleep they need, they may have a lower risk of becoming under or overweight and developing diabetes as well as fewer learning problems and attention issues and increases immunity system. Sleep is as important as nutrition and exercise. Night is when the body repackages neurotransmitters, chemicals that enable brain cells to communicate. And experts have recently been able to demonstrate that sleep allows brain cells to "take out the trash" each night, flushing out disease-causing toxins.

Since the work of building up the body takes place during the hours of rest, it is essential, especially in youth, that sleep should be regular and abundant.                   

         How To Make Your Kids Go To Bed Early

Practice what you preach! Don’t just send your kid off to bed and then torture them with sounds of the television or chatter between you and your partner. Get ready for bed yourself! Even if you’re reading quietly in your room, this will set an example for your kids and show them that they need to wind down.

Work out some sort of bedtime moral lesson book or Bible story. They’ll begin to look forward to those reading sessions and, by association, sleep. Get your child to turn off their screens at least two hours before bed. The blue light emitted by screens makes it very difficult to fall asleep. Turning them off before bed will help your child’s brain produce melatonin – the hormone that signals bedtime.

TERRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF NOT GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP

When you keep not getting enough sleep, it can affect your body in the long run. Doctors recommends between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night for adults and young one respectively.

 Weakened immune system

 Stress: When you don't get enough sleep, your body naturally releases the stress hormone cortisol.

 Greater risk of death: People who sleep less than five hours per night are 15 percent more likely to die from literally any cause.

 Heightened blood pressure: Sleep less stresses out your body and mind in a way that causes your blood pressure to spike. Over time, this could damage your heart, arteries, kidneys, and even bring about stroke, loss of vision, and a host of other health problem you seriously don't want.

 Increased risk of disease:  People who sleeps less than six hours per night (or more than nine) were significantly more likely to have heart disease or diabetes, have suffered a stroke, or be obese. 

 Moodiness:  Researchers found that fatigue intensified participants' negative emotions. Sleep deprivation actually affects your mood and you’re more susceptible to angry when you're sleepy. 

 Impaired creativity:  Neuroimaging studies suggest that the brain spontaneously reorganizes information when you rest.

 Lower GPA (Grade point average):  Students who sleep the least earn lower grades than those who sleep nine or more hours per night. Your brain needs to cycle through certain deep sleep stages to store memories and solidify the things you learn. When you fall asleep, your heart rate and metabolic rate drop so your body can focus on those things, says. No sleep, no storage. 

 Weight gain: People who sleep less are more likely to be overweight. That's probably because sleep deprivation messes with the hormones that regulate your appetite (ghrelin or hunger hormone) and tell your brain you're hungry, even though you don't actually need food at that time,  (leptin or fat hormone), which can lead to chronic overeating.

 Poor decisions:  Many parts of the brain are involved in decision-making. When you don't give your brain enough rest, it functions retards.

 Twitchy eyes:  Fatigue can cause eye nystagmus (involuntary eye movement), which makes your eyeballs move involuntarily, even though your head is still.

 Fertility issues: There's no conclusive proof that sleep deprivation directly causes infertility, experts know that lack of sleep can stress you out and suspect it can also can interfere with your body's circadian rhythm. Together, this can ultimately suppress your reproductive hormones and impair your ability to sustain a pregnancy.

 Depression: Sleep and depression are interrelated. People who suffer from insomnia are more likely to suffer from major depression than people who sleep regularly. 

 Increased risk of car accidents: Sleep-deprived patients in simulators have just as many accidents as someone who is drunk.

 Slower reaction time: When your brain isn't well rested, it doesn't take in information, process it, and respond to it as quickly as usual. "You lose speed before accuracy, you'll get your work done, but it will take longer.

 Partner affects: Even if you're the lone wolf who stays up late to online shop or work you're not the only one who suffers sleep debt and associated side effects. If you sleep with a partner, you'll likely wake him up when you jump into bed a few hours later, which compromises his sleep quantity and quality. Regular rude awakenings could cause him to experience any number of the side effects listed here.

 Premature aging: When you don't get enough sleep, your body releases the stress hormone cortisol. If your body releases too much cortisol, it starts to break down collagen, a protein that promotes smooth skin and elasticity. Sleep deprivation also may decrease the production of the growth hormones in your body that strengthen the skin and fend off wrinkles.

 Dry skin: Sleep helps hydrate your skin so it doesn't get all dry and flaky. In other words, adequate sleep is like a natural moisturizer. 

 Skin problem: Sleep improves blood flow to the skin. Don't get enough sleep, and your skin will look blotchy or pale.  When you don't get enough sleep, your stress levels soar and your body responds by producing more of the hormone glucocorticoid. This disrupts your skin structure, which makes you more vulnerable to acne. Lack of sleep also triggers inflammation, which can makes small blemishes blow up.  Sleep deprivation can make your skin more sensitive and even worsen existing skin conditions like rosacea or eczema. 

"I know from the testimonies given me from time to time for brain workers that sleep is worth far more before than after midnight. Two hours' good sleep before twelve o'clock is worth more than four hours after twelve o'clock. . . ." Manuscript Releases, volume 7, p. 224.

How prevalent (common) is the habit of turning day into night, and night into day. Many youth sleep soundly in the morning, when they should be up with the early singing birds, and be stirring when all nature is awake. Let youth practice regularity in the hours for going to bed, and for rising and they will improve in health, in mind, in spirit, in disposition. Let them purpose in their hearts that they will bring themselves under discipline, and practice orderly rules. God is a God of order, and it is the duty of the youth to observe strict rules; for such practices will work for their advantage. {YI, September 7, 1893 par. 5; also in Evangelism, p. 651}

Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession mortals can have. Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly purchased if it be at the loss of the vigor of health. None of these attainments can secure happiness if health is wanting. It is a terrible sin to abuse the health that God has given us; for every abuse of health enfeebles us for life, and makes us losers. 

How prevalent is the habit of turning day into night and night into day. Many youth sleep soundly in the morning, when they should be up with the early singing birds, and be stirring when all nature is awake. Let youth practice regularity in the hours for going to bed and for rising, ... Let them purpose in their hearts that they will bring themselves under discipline, and practice orderly rules. God is a God of order, and it is the duty of the youth to observe strict rules, for such practices will work for their advantage. The youth Instructor, sept7, 1893      

                BIBLE                                

                             Scripture’s wisdom literature suggest that inability to sleep may reflect a lack of trust in the Lord. In Psalm 4:8 “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. David is able to sleep amid life’s trials because of his confidence that the Lord alone made him “dwell in safety. . Indeed, God “gives to his beloved sleep.” It brings to mind the time Jesus slept in a boat during a storm on the Sea of Galilee. In contrast to His frazzled (completely exhausted)  disciples, Jesus’ sleep was an expression of trust in His heavenly Father (Mark 4:35-41). . Of course, there are times when sleeplessness is appropriate given the weightiness of our circumstances, and too much sleep may also reflect a lack of trust in the Lord, as when depressed or worried people sleep to avoid facing their troubles. But finding ourselves routinely unable to sleep due to worry indicates a need to trust God, . Of course, there are times when sleeplessness is appropriate given the weightiness of our circumstances, and too much sleep may also reflect a lack of trust in the Lord, as when depressed or worried people sleep to avoid facing their troubles. But finding ourselves routinely unable to sleep due to worry indicates a need to trust God.

Scripture also says that too much sleep may reflect laziness. Consider Proverbs 6:9-11, which asks sarcastically, “How long will you lie there, O sluggard?” and warns that one who sleeps when he should be working will come to poverty. In contrast, the Proverbs 31 woman routinely rises early to work in her home (Proverbs 31:15).Finally, the Bible teaches that there is a time to sacrifice sleep for a greater spiritual good. Jesus regularly rose early to pray and even prayed all night on occasion (Luke 6:12), recognizing that sometimes communion with God is more necessary for His children than physical rest. The night before Jesus’ crucifixion, for example, He told Peter, James, and John to pray that they would “not enter into temptation.” When they fell asleep instead, the Lord rebuked them and said there would be other times for sleep (Matthew 26:36-46). Their abandonment of Jesus during His arrest and trial was a result of their choice to sleep rather than seek God.

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