Physician explains how poor or low-quality sleep hinders common resolutions
Published on January 20, 2017 at 7:25 PM · No Comments
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Making New Year's resolutions is easy. Keeping them — beyond a couple of weeks, at least — is tough.
One big factor that affects whether the commitment sticks: sleep.
It's a key component many people neglect when striving to make improvements in just about any part of their lives.
"We definitely take sleep as a luxury; it's not," says Cathy Goldstein, M.D., a sleep physician at Michigan Medicine and an assistant professor of neurology in the Sleep Disorders Centers at the University of Michigan.
Whether intentional or a result of external factors, shortchanging on shut-eye influences a host of bodily functions crucial for good health.
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