What Does Sleep Do to Your Body?

The body thing about sleep is like, 's what you do at the end of the day when you're done doing everything else, you close your eyes and then you wake up in the morning. But sleep is actually a very active process. There's a lot of things during sleep that actually turn on to help protect you. And so when you don't get the traditional sleep that you need, the six and a half to eight hours of sleep that each of us require at night, we really disrupt some of the critical processes that occur during sleep.