How well do you sleep every day? Sleep is important, you know that. But in addition to sleep, you have a lot of important things every day, exercise, meals, hydration, work, childcare, mental wellbeing, gaming, and presentations ...... our first sacrifice, often sleep. But in the doctor's opinion, the most important of these things, the most can not be sacrificed, is non-sleeping. You may have heard that "life is in motion", and also know that "water is life’s essence", why are these not as important as sleep?

The downside of a bad night's sleep is that it doesn't just make you lethargic. We doctors have a reverse thinking, that is, in all things, without which, life will be the fastest to the end, it is the most important to health. Skipping exercise, fasting, or poor mindset won’t cause immediate harm. After counting down, there are only three things you can't do without: hydration, exercise, and sleep.

If you don't hydrate at all, you will die soon, but considering that our food contains more or less water, extreme dehydration is rare daily. Similarly, if a person does not exercise at all and lies motionless in bed, his muscles will also atrophy, but such an extreme case hardly exists. We get up to go to the toilet, walk to the next office, go downstairs to eat, etc., and more or less there is also an element of exercise.

However, sleep is simply sleep. According to the medical profession, sleep is a pillar of human health and plays a vital role in maintaining our physical health, mental balance, cognitive ability, and emotional regulation. Sleep is one of our daily behaviors for which there is no alternative and which needs to be taken seriously.

Unfortunately, poor sleep has become increasingly common among us.

Heart disease and stroke have always had a lifestyle component behind them. In the past, heart disease clinics were filled with fat people who ate and ate, but in the last 10 years, I've seen fewer and fewer fat people, but nearly 70% of my patients have sleep problems. Poor sleep now tops lifestyle-related issues in cardiac patients.

There are many reasons for poor sleep, so we don't have to be too hard on ourselves and demand baby-like sleep every day. The bottom line is that we can't break through the lower limit, and the ceiling is that we should sleep like a baby to achieve the best sleep possible. As long as your sleep is within this range and meets your needs, it's fine.