As adults, we spend approximately one-third of our lives sleeping. At least that’s the amount of sleep experts recommend. Again and again, we hear the mantra about getting eight hours of sleep per night, but do you know why?
Even though sleep is one of the body’s most basic functions and something all people, and animals with complex nervous systems, need to do, there is still a veil of mystery around it. Scientists aren’t completely certain why people sleep. However, they have come up with many hypotheses to explain why sleep is important and do have insight into how it affects our brain and body.
