Sleep and Immune Health

There is a very intimate relationship between your sleep health and your immune health. Individuals who reported getting less than seven hours of sleep had almost a threefold increase likelihood of becoming infected by the rhino virus, relative to those who were getting eight hours of sleep or more. If you're not getting sufficient sleep in the week before you get your flue shot, you produce less than 50 % of the normal anti body response,. therefore rendering that vaccination a significantly less effective. At some point we will develop a vaccine for covet 19. And then the question becomes, is the same thing true if you're not getting the sleep that you need in the week beforeyou get your covet shot?