Sleep makes you feel better, but its importance goes way beyond just boosting your mood or banishing under-eye circles. Adequate sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, and can benefit your heart, weight, mind, and more.

So, if you aren’t having enough sleep, here are few reasons why you should start now, then thank me later:

1. Poor Sleep Can Make You Fat – People with short sleep duration tend to weigh significantly more than those who get adequate sleep. So if you want to lose weight, sleep more.

2. Good Sleepers Tend to Eat Fewer Calories.

3. Good Sleep Can Improve Concentration and Productivity – Sleep is important for various aspects of brain function. This includes cognition, concentration, productivity and performance.

4.  Good Sleep Can Maximize Athletic Performance – Longer sleep has been shown to improve many aspects of athletic and physical performance.

5. Poor Sleepers Have a Greater Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke – Studies found that short sleepers are at far greater risk of heart disease or stroke than those who sleep 7 to 8 hours per night.

6. Sleep Affects Glucose Metabolism and Type 2 Diabetes Risk – Sleep deprivation can cause pre-diabetes in healthy adults, in as little as 6 days.

7. Poor Sleep is Linked to Depression – Mental health issues, such as depression, are strongly linked to poor sleep quality and sleeping disorders.

8. Sleep Improves Your Immune Function – Getting at least 8 hours of sleep can improve immune function and help fight the common cold.

9.  Poor Sleep is Linked to Increased Inflammation –  poor sleep affects the body’s inflammatory responses. Poor sleep is strongly linked to inflammatory bowel diseases and can increase the risk of disease recurrence.

10. Sleep Affects Emotions and Social Interactions – Not sleeping well can reduces our ability to interact socially.

So, go ahead and Snooze!!