
Sleep matters
Explore how sleep impacts your brain, body, and productivity and how to optimise it.

Sleep really does matter. Far more than the importance that most of us give it. In order to carry out essential maintenance, our bodies need to spend around a third of our lives asleep yet many of us fail to ensure that we are well prepared for a restful and restorative night. Lack of good quality sleep can create mental and physical health issues and, as we all know, has a very real impact on our productivity. Sleep plays a central role in so many things. Including the renewal and repair of our body's tissues, our metabolism, our physical growth and development, our ability to fight infection, our learning skills and memory, and our ability to regulate our emotions. Wow, what a list!