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“One-third of life going in sleep!” which many Gurus of modern management abhor as waste because enough “sleeping will be done in the grave.” But sleeping is not a sin or a waste of time.. An adequate amount of sleep is as essential as air we breathe and water we drink. Sleep-deprived people don’t perform well and get hurt more easily. Their threshold of pain during sleep deprivation goes down, apart from the fact that inadequate sleep can calcify coronary arteries and raise level of inflammatory factors linked to heart disease. Even a single night of inadequate sleep can cause daylong spike in blood pressure in people with hypertension.

Under normal circumstances, people in good health (physical, mental and social) tend to sleep well; whereas those in ill health suffer from many sleep maladies. Even a minimal loss of sleep can have deleterious impact on a person’s mind, energy and ability to handle day-to-day stresses of modernity and virtually saps the quality of life and leads to systemic diseases. Yet many people voluntarily or perforce give up sleep to make room for work shifts and for travel or leisure and late nighttime partying and thereby pay by way damage done to their health.

A new study at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland shows that those who slept fewer hours and spent less time in REM sleep, had more visible signs of aging such as crow-feet, fine lines, pigmentation and reduced skin elasticity, and a sleep expert, Raymond Hall, provides a number of tips to mobilize sleep as “fountain of youth.”