Healthy Bedtime For Teens and Adults

By dr. Margaret Amelia | MeetDoctor.com

The body does need rest or sleep to restore energy and can move back. Normal sleep time for age 18 years or older is about 6-7 hours each night. But bad habits are usually done by teenagers is to stay up. This will cause you to fatigue during the day and up late.

Recent studies have shown that sleep patterns differ between adolescents with children and adults. This study showed that the hormone melatonin in teenagers is produced at night, in contrast to children and adults. The hormone that causes teens are more difficult to sleep early.

When this happens repeatedly, accompanied by the burden of excessive physical activity, youth will become stressed because just thinking about trivial things that made ​​him unable to sleep. Furthermore, sleep difficulties will impact on the level of concentration of study and work, and will be easily emotionally upset and depressed.

To fix this, you can set a regular bedtime. For teens and adults, the best time to sleep is between 9-12 pm nightly. Assume you sleep 7 hours, then you will wake up at 7 am late. If you're new activity starts later in the day, use this time in the morning for other activities, such as learning. Perform this sleep pattern continued for a week until the body finally got used.

Also do regular exercise in the afternoon, and reduce consumption of stimulants such as coffee and cigarettes while he was sleeping. Additionally make room atmosphere become comfortable and make your mind more relaxed. Most importantly, when you are sleepy during the day, avoid naps. Remind yourself that you're trying to establish your sleep patterns.

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