How much does sleep affect your immune system and health?

Emensly, I am currently seeing a cardiologist because I never hit hit the REM sleep, and am physically as well as mentally exhausted, it can cause a vast amount of trouble, including heart trouble.

I’ve rarely had any REM sleep, ever. Maybe twice in the lapse of my memory.

then perhaps you should seek medical advice there are 5 stages of sleep and you are apparently missing the most important one. I now have to use a CPAP machine to help me hit REM sleep, it isn’t fun BUT the sleep is GREAT and leaves me feeling rested for a change. It also helps to shut down the computer and game systems earlier to allow the body to shut down. No I am not a Dr. just a person who loves to feel well rested.

Haha, thank you, I’ll look into all of this :) much appreciated BTW.

and thank you as well :)

YW….have a good sleep

A lot, your body needs rest to fight illness and such. Therefore Good sleep = good immunity. Bad sleep = Bad immunity

I can only attest to the mental health side of things. One of my first clients became psychotic from lack of sleep. Yeah, that was fun.