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  • It’ll Help Protect Your Breasts


    Clock in your seven hours of shut-eye -- no less -- and <a href="http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v99/n9/abs/6604684a.html" target="_blank">avoid a striking 62 percent increase in breast cancer risk</a>, finds an eight-year Japanese study of 24,000 women. The theory: Without adequate sleep, the light-sensitive pineal gland doesn’t secrete enough hormone-regulating melatonin. That’s a problem, because our bodies use melatonin to suppress the hormone estrogen -- which, unchecked, may stimulate (cancerous) breast cell division.









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via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/reasons-to-sleep-benefits_n_3349513.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy%20Living

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