3-2-1-Go to sleep – Here’s Why…
In light of National Sleep Awareness Week we are starting a series on Sleep, so stay tuned each week as we unravel more and more of the nitty gritty on why we need it, risks we are taking when we’re not getting enough of it, and what YOU can do about it.
FACT:
68% of Americans struggle with sleep…and Pastors are not immune.
Learn from some of the top Doctors in wellness – Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Matt Walker:
“Sleep is a foundational bedrock for our ability to learn from experience…

Sleep preps the brain for information input…
The formation, or “encoding,” of memories occurs when the brain engages with new information – ideas, actions, or images – and leads to the formation of a representation of this information in the brain. Sleep preps the brain so that it can assimilate this new information and lay down the framework for new memory traces. Without sufficient sleep – in particular, the slow wave sleep that occurs during the stage of non-rapid eye movement, or NREM – the brain’s ability to receive new input is markedly impaired. This phenomenon has critical implications in students and has been observed when college students who were deprived of sleep experienced dramatic deficits in their ability to learn new information.

Sleep facilitates information storage…
Sleep also facilitates the more permanent storage of new information that has been stored in the hippocampus – the region of the brain responsible for the formation and consolidation of short-term memories. Sleep that occurs after exposure to new information fulfills the role of the brain’s “save button.”
Sleep provides the transferring of short-term memories to long-term memories…
