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Metabolism, the Mitochondria and your Child's Sleep
Sleep is essential for the ongoing health and wellbeing of your child.
An increasing number of studies on sleep have explored the connection between sleep and the mitochondria. The mitochondria are the "batteries" within the cells that produces energy from food. Thus, the mitochondria help the body repair itself during sleep and much more.
Your child's body grows and repairs itself while they sleep. If their sleep cycle is not good, it can have major effects on the body. The child's body goes through different processes while they sleep. This process begins with their mitochondria.
For the body to grow and repair itself, the mitochondria need to be producing energy from food. This controls the function of the ‘master gland’ that lives at the base of the brain. When a child sleeps, this gland releases growth hormones that helps the body grow.
Thus, healthy mitochondria support the health of your child.
Mitochondria are also involved in the sleep/wake cycle
In addition to helping the child's body repair itself during sleep, the mitochondria also influences the body’s sleep/wake cycle. Studies have proposed that mitochondria are the primary site of melatonin synthesis.
Melatonin synthesis is the production of melatonin within the body. This hormone is secreted by the pineal gland which is in the brain. It helps control the body’s sleep pattern and sleep-wake cycle. The production increases with darkness to help promote healthy sleeping. While melatonin does not make you sleep, the increased levels help to promote sleep.
Studies have explored the connection between mitochondria and the circadian rhythm (the body’s internal body clock). Studies have found that sleep deprivation alters the enzyme activity and protein levels within the body – which highlights the mitochondria’s involvement in the body’s sleep/wake cycle.
So the mitochondria help the child sleep.
Sleep deprivation contribute to cell stress
When we’re sleep-deprived, the body doesn’t function at its best. One study, published in the journal "Scientific Reports" points out that this extends to our mitochondria’s ability to fight cell stress. Cell stress, also known as oxidative stress, is what happens when too many free radicals escape from your mitochondria and attack your cells. According to the study, free radicals are produced while you’re awake and are eliminated when you sleep. This suggests that a lack of sleep inhibits the body’s ability to fight cell stress. As cells are the building blocks of the body, cell stress has the potential to significantly impact the general wellbeing and energy needs of your child.
Supporting mitochondrial health
Thus, by supporting mitochondrial health, you can support a child's energy and sleep quality.
It’s clear that sleep and mitochondrial health are interlinked. Multiple studies have found that a lack of sleep can negatively affect mitochondrial function. Supporting the mitochondria will help your child's sleep and health.
Supporting the Mitochondria
Good Health Depends on Optimum Gut and Mitochondrial Function
There is a range of nutrients required to maintain optimum gut, mitochondrial and metabolic health. Due to the quality of food today, many children are deficient in the vitamins and minerals needed by the body for optimum gut, mitochondrial and metabolic health.
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Sleep – Why You Need Enough
Most adult people seem to need 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. This is an average, and it is also subjective. You probably know how much sleep you need in an average night to feel your best.
A way to check on whether you are getting enough sleep is to pay attention to how long it takes you to get to sleep. When you average 10-15 minutes before falling asleep, you’re getting enough sleep. If you fall asleep when you head hits the pillow, you need more sleep. (If it takes you longer to get to sleep, then that means something needs to be handled nutritionally.) There are different reasons for these phenomena.
The amount of sleep you need decreases with age. A newborn baby might sleep 20 hours a day. By age 4 the average is 12 hours a day. By age 10 the average falls to 10 hours a day. Senior citizens can often get by with 6 or 7 hours a day.
Two other things are known to happen during sleep. Growth hormone in children is secreted during sleep, and chemicals important to the immune system are secreted during sleep. You can become more prone to disease if you don’t get enough sleep, and a child’s growth can be stunted by sleep deprivation.
Sleep gives the body a chance to repair muscles and other tissues, replace aging or dead cells, etc. Missing out on sleep not only affects work performance, but also can wreak havoc with our health. In addition to raising stress hormones, sleep deprivation could foster diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and memory loss, and it could cause you to age prematurely. Other ill effects of sleep deprivation include impaired motor skills, difficulty thinking, concentrating, and making decisions, as well as irritability and other mood problems.
We saw earlier how exercise is important. Well, unless sleep is adequate, you don’t feel like exercising.
Things that help you sleep
1. Put sleep on your schedule. As hard as it may be to put away your “to do” list, make sleep a “priority.” You’ll thank yourself in the morning.
2. Unwind early in the evening Try to deal with worries and distractions several hours before bedtime.
3. Keep regular hours Go to bed around the same time each night and wake up close to the same time each morning even on weekends.
4. Create a restful place to sleep Sleep in a cool, dark room that is free from noises that may disturb your sleep.
5. Sleep on a comfortable, supportive mattress and foundation It’s difficult to sleep on a bed that’s too small, too soft, too hard, or too old.
6. Exercise regularly. Regular exercise can help relieve daily tension and stress but don’t exercise too close to bedtime or you may have trouble falling asleep.|
7. Cut down on caffeine, smoking and alcohol. Consuming stimulants in the evening can make it more difficult to fall asleep
See our article on Sleeplessness – The inability to get enough Sleep.
