How Sleep Quality and Diet Support Nervous System Health and Slow Aging
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This article discusses the connection between sleep quality and aging, emphasizing that good sleep (7-9 hours) is essential for the body's repair processes and helps reduce inflammation that accelerates aging. It also touches on how diet affects the autonomic nervous system, with specific foods and nutrients supporting neurotransmitter balance and stress resilience.
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· 3 pulledWhile you're conked out, the body is busily engaged in a slew of renovation and repair operations that human life depends on.
It's the difference between good sleep – 7-9 hours a night – and insufficient poor-quality sleep that helps determine how well, nor not so well, we age.
Sleeping well and enough helps tame the inflammation ages us and nearly e
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