Recently, the epidemic has spread in many places. In the face of epidemic prevention, in addition to responding to the call and staying in medium and high-risk areas, improving one’s own immunity is also an important part of preventing the virus, and immunity is closely related to sleep quality.
A study by the world’s top academic journal “Science” shows that sleep affects the body’s immune function, and good sleep can enhance immunity. A study published in March 2019 at the University of Tübingen in Germany showed that when we enter deep sleep, the body’s immune T cells are more active, which can identify and kill harmful invading cells and help us ward off disease risks.
It can be seen that in response to the new coronavirus, in addition to taking some basic preventive measures, it is best to maintain adequate sleep and rest.
Lack of sleep increases virus risk
In fact, as early as 2007, a Dr. Aric Prather from the University of California, USA, conducted a study on the relationship between sleep and the risk of viral infection.
The study monitored more than 160 healthy men and women, first using a smart bracelet to monitor their sleep for a week. They were then given drops containing rhinovirus. It turned out that people who slept less were more likely to be infected. Nearly 45 percent of those who slept five hours a night contracted the virus, compared with 18 percent of those who slept more than seven hours. It can be seen that the risk of infection in sleep-deprived people is 2 to 3 times that of sleep-sufficient people.
Why does lack of sleep increase the risk of viral infection? The study found that if a person slept only 4-6 hours a day for two weeks, the number of lymphocytes in the body decreased by 28%. Lymphocytes are important immune cells in the human body. This means that lack of sleep can significantly reduce the body’s immunity and make it vulnerable to viruses. Therefore, good sleep habits play a vital role in the immune function of the human body.
In extraordinary times, it is even more important to get enough sleep
Maintaining adequate and good sleep not only helps to maintain the normal immune function of the body, but also is the premise of maintaining energy and happiness. The healthier you are, the more resistant you are to viruses.
Did you sleep well? Pay more attention to the following three points:
01 The timing of sleep
From a scientific point of view, going to bed at 10 pm is the best, and going to bed too early or too late is not scientific. During the epidemic period, many people were affected by nervousness and anxiety, which made it difficult to fall asleep at 11:00 and 12:00 in the evening; some people stayed at home and entered a vicious cycle of sleep, getting up late in the morning and sleeping late at night. These are unhealthy. The way you sleep also needs to be adjusted.
02 Length of sleep
Generally, 8 hours is the length of sleep that meets the physiological needs of adults, including the elderly. If a person only sleeps three or four hours a day, there is definitely something wrong. At the same time, healthy sleep should be continuous. If the total length of several sleeps in a day is added together to get 8 hours of sleep, it is also unhealthy.
03 Feelings after waking up
If you wake up in the morning feeling refreshed, you’ve slept well. On the contrary, if you wake up feeling sleepy, weak, irritable, unable to concentrate, or have a decreased ability to work, it means that your sleep is not good and needs to be improved in time.
Nourishing the mind and calming the mind is the foundation of improving sleep
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the reason why sleep problems such as inability to fall asleep, sleeping for a short period of time, and being easily awakened is that “the heart does not hide the spirit”. The key to treatment is to nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. Suanzaoren treats insomnia. This is the consensus of physicians in the past dynasties. Its history can be traced back to Zhang Zhongjing’s “Essentials of the Golden Chamber” in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Treat insomnia. Famous doctors such as Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty and Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty believed that Suanzaoren was a good medicine for insomnia. To this day, Suanzaoren is still the most frequently used traditional Chinese medicine for sleep aid in the “Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China”. In 2002, the former Ministry of Health of the State included Suanzao Ren in the “List of Items that Are Both Foods and Medicines”, which shows its medicinal value and safety.
Modern research has found that the reason why sour jujube seed has a sleep-promoting effect is mainly because the ingredients such as sour jujube seed oil milk, sour jujube seed total flavonoids, and sour jujube seed saponins can play a sedative and hypnotic effect. Large and full, with high medicinal value, it is a recognized authentic medicinal material since ancient times, and has the reputation of “Xingtai Suan Jujube is the best in the world”. Wanbi’an Suan Zao Ren Oil Soft Capsules developed and produced by Yiling Pharmaceutical are selected from the wild and authentic Suan Zao Ren in Xingtai’s Taihang Mountains. The sleep aid essence is much more effective than the sour jujube seed powder and the sour jujube seed paste.
Scientists’ experimental studies have confirmed that a good night’s sleep can improve deep sleep. The State Key Laboratory of Fudan University has shown that Wanbian Suanzaoren Oil Soft Capsules can shorten the sleep latency period and help solve the problem of insomniac people having difficulty falling asleep; prolong the sleep time, allowing insomniacs to sleep longer; the most important thing is to improve deep sleep. , so that the mental and physical strength of people with anxiety and insomnia during the epidemic can be recovered more fully and efficiently.
Studies from the School of Medicine of Xi’an Jiaotong University and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Henan University of Technology have confirmed that in addition to sedative, hypnotic and antidepressant effects, jujube seed oil is also rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can help clean blood vessels. Cholesterol, protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, and help healthy sleep.
Wanbian Suanzaoren Oil Soft Capsule can effectively improve sleep without adverse reactions, and is easy to carry and take. It is very suitable for white-collar workers, students, menopausal people with endocrine disorders, and middle-aged and elderly people with sleep problems. For healthy sleep. In short, at the moment of the epidemic, in addition to taking normalized epidemic prevention measures, sleeping well and improving immunity are also effective ways to prevent the virus.