The Healing Power of Sleep
WebMD Feature
When you nod off, it seems like your body powers down for the night. But as you sleep, your body actually repairs and restores itself.
“Think of sleep as the tune-up you need to run smoothly,” says David M. Rapoport, MD. Rapoport is director of the Sleep Medicine Program at NYU Langone Medical Center.
You should aim to get 7 to 8 hours of shut-eye every night. That gives your body the time it needs for sleep to do some very important things. Here are seven of them.