Persuasion Speech
Kayla Frye
• https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=SVQlcxiQlzI Sleep helps you learn more efficiently
• During sleep, while your body rest, your brain processes information from the day and forms memories. • Studies show that information after 2am is not processed that night.
• Although scientist don’t know the direct correlation, it appears to affect the hippocampus and neocortex.
Sleep deprivation leads to obesity
• During a Harvard study researchers concluded short sleepers had a 30% greater chance of gaining 30 pounds during the study.
• Sleep deprived people are less likely to excericse. • If your body does not accuire enough sleep your metabolism doesn’t function properly.
Sleep is important to manage stress
• Lack of sleep leads to stress and psychological strain.
• Sleep-deprived patients report greater anxiety, stress, and anger to low stress conditions.
• The section of your brain that controls stress signals is most active during REM sleep.
• There’s decent evidence that the same brain chemical that brings on deep sleep also tells the pituatary gland to slow down ACTH production. Which results in the adrenal gland not getting the signal to release stress hormones –Henry Holt 2004
Sleep helps you make better decisions.
• Studies show that people who are sleep deprived are more likely to think they are right when they were, in fact, wrong.
• A week of sleep deprivation can lead to cognitive difficulties similar to those of a stroke patient.
• Around 100,000 traffic accidents a year due to sleep deprivation.
• As sleep debt builds your ability to concentrate
decreases.