Sleep it’s what we need!

So this brings us to the question: What is sleep and how is it important! First we must look at our brain. There are millions of tiny cells in our brains called neurons that send thousands of signals to each other every second. These neurons line into patterns. These patterns often happen when you sleep. For example, When you first lie in bed, you have something called alpha waves. They are fast moving waves. But When your brains start to sleep, these waves slow down to something called theta waves. So what happens exactly in your brain while you are sleeping. Why is it that our parents say that we have to get sleep before a big exam or test, According to Matthew Walker, a professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at UC Berkeley, there  hippocampus sits in the right and left side of the brain and this is sort of the informational inbox, you can think of this analogy sort of like a USB stick, this USB stick is  then transferred to the cortex which has the harddrive. This happens all during our sleep. Another reason why sleep is unique and important to our day is Sleep is replay. It helps cement memories inside our brain. When we sleep, we replay the same signature movement at a faster and speeder rate, than when we are awake. This is one of the ways that sleep is amazing in our lives! Another reason why Sleep is what we need is because sleep has integration network solutions to problems. We actually do the saying of Sleeping on a problem because it often can provide solutions to the problems in life, this happen during a rem sleep which is our dream cycle in which we can dream and picture things to hear,see, and maybe feel things and look at our problems in a more deeper and profound level. 

But you know I talked about sleep in regards to what it does in our brains, but what it is for us. Well, this whole channel is focused towards the middle school community, who is entering through the years of adolescence. While we enter through the years of adolescence, we get less and less sleep and it is almost intuitive to have less sleep the older we are in the adolescence time period. But this is not a problem with us, it’s almost like a biological shift in our time in terms of the rhythm of our sleep, we almost like to go to bed later, and wake up later. This is not sort of our choice in our lives, but it is driven inside of us to do such things. Most scientists talk about issues on how to lumber or disrupt this cycle of sleep with earlier school times, where most teenagers prefer to wake up at 9pm-10pm, and get educated at around 11pm, which is the natural time to absorb. On the weekends, most teenagers, well me too, think that there are hours to make up for sleep from the lost sleep on the weekdays. But when parents see this they pull up the covers, and they try to get their kids out of beds, says many scientists.Very few teenagers are getting the sleep that they need, almost 72% of parents believe that there are kids are actually getting good sleep, but only 11% of teenagers are getting actual sleep. So as livestudyhackers, I am going to give you some advice on how to fix this sleep cycle. 

There is a model called the Two Process Model of Sleep Regulation, and it shows why we feel more awake or tired at any given time. The two-princess model of sleep regulations positis the interactions of Process S and Process C which is the circadian rhythm. The Circadian Rhythm drives to weakness. Your body or for most teenagers our body tells us during the evening a 3- 5:00 reach out for a diet coke or have some starbucks. Then there is a 

Circadian Nadar, which is the lowest place of alertness. There is often an Misalignment in our circadian rhythms, which results in Diffusiate sleep, a misalignment of cognitive behavioral impairments for health outcome. Adolescent sleep is often referred to as the perfect storm. Shift and delay and fall asleep and awake time with puberty results one to be a nightowl. A shift of 2 hours with the time most teenagers are able to now do risky things. Like how Sleep drive slows downs. However teens can not make themselves sleep before these two hours with the limited amount of sleep and screen time.Like  (electronic devices blue light, or stop procrastinating homework, and consumption of caffeine/energy drinks).  Then during the weekend we must limit the ideology of Social Jet Lag(Does not reverse their impairment, and bolsters the fact of sleeping later

 It is essential for High school students to need 8-10 hours of sleep. But 8-10 hours is not enough, one person calls it a C in our report card. Less than these Sleep behavior hours  reduces executive functions, and causes sleep restrictions in the prefrontal cortex area.  Having Sleep will help with motivation and help with reward related, and help with risk taking with negative thinking, like I mentioned before. And one of leading cause Adolescents deaths is sucide the more they go on in higher grades, they get less and less amount of sleep 6 or less hour, and this leads to depression. And many 16-18 years old report drowsy driving. Another worrisome detrimental side effect to limited hours of  Sleep is deprived gain weight like getting up late and skipping breakfast.  It makes them Too tired to exercise and there is again a correlation with sleep loss with cardiovascular function and obesity.  As stated before, even many educated scientist at Harvard believe that school should start at 8:30 am or later, and this is the circandian sweet spot in which teens can fully focus, but with livestudyhacks we can do nothing to change school times, but we can develop a system in which we get those 8 hours of sleep. Once we develop, we can develop positive actions with  less absence rate and grades improving in subjects like (Math science English) Graduation rates and standardized tests will be higher. 

I would like to close this video with a few final tips. Sleep must happen at the same schedule, awake the same and about the sleep around the same time. Do light exercise, Avoid caffeine and nicotine, Cell phone and activities , and Notepad in the sleep, in worries, worry about issues before going to sleep. And while going to bed, Do not get any midnight snacks or read or get a cell phone. I hope you learn at the end of the day that sleep is important and even though it is something that we do not really think about, we should definitely get our required 8 hours to maximize our potential in our middle and high school  lives. 

Well Thanks for watching this video, and  I really hoped you found this video helpful. Please make sure to like this video and subscribe. See you next time! Bye!:)