Fight Covid-19, Flu and Other Diseases with Quality Sleep

Quality sleeps strengthens your immune system, which helps your body successfully fight off infections, including the Covid-19 virus.

The Coronavirus, Covid-19, is currently wreaking havoc in countries around the world. Like almost all diseases, it most strongly affects people who are already in bad health and already have a weakened immune system.

The immune system is the body’s defensive army, attacking not only invaders such as viruses and bacteria, but also threats originating from inside the body, for example cancer. Doing this every day, the immune system gets worn down as the number of immune cells, such as white blood cells, is being depleted.

Sleep allows all kinds of recuperative processes to occur, including the regeneration of the immune system. During sleep the body is able to produce immune cells in large numbers, replenishing the depleted “army” of immune cell “soldiers”. Incidentally research has shown that immune cell count in the blood drops dramatically after a night of bad sleep.

Poor sleep causes all kinds of other health problems too, e.g. higher risk for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, low testosterone and others.

To get more quality sleep try the following:

Have a set schedule, go to bed at the same time every day. This puts your body and mind into the habit of falling asleep at a certain time.

Do your reading on mobile screens during the day. At night the blue light emanating from these screens keeps you awake. The best thing to do before going to bed is reading a book under gentle white or yellow light.

Take a walk outside during the day, it exposes you germ-killing fresh air and sunlight.

Your senses are your brain’s connection to the outside world. Stimulating them properly tells your brain that it’s safe to sleep and recuperate. Stimulate your senses with scented oils (olfactory sense), pleasant sounds (auditory sense), and darkness (visual sense). Keep your bedroom cool and perhaps even try Ensven’s modular bed rocker to stimulate your sense of balance and orientation located in your inner ear. Most people, not just babies, sleep very well when there is gentle movement.

Have your last meal a few hours before bed time. Avoid nicotine and coffee as they are stimulants. Alcohol is a sedative. It does make you sleepy but the sleep you get is more of an inactive unconscious state, not the highly recuperative deep sleep that occurs during high quality natural sleep.