The Impact of Sleep on Health and Disease

Course overview

Sleep is the platform under-girding all aspects of health. This course will leave an impression, hopefully one that causes you to attend to sleep, in yourself and others. Sufficient quantity and quality of sleep is paramount, and diseases quickly appear when diminished. Therapies can fail or succeed on the basis of sleep. Sleep is the deep well from which life drinks heavily. This course examines how we sleep, why we sleep, what happens when we sleep and what happens when we don't. It considers the impact on diseases, as well as their therapies. It provides several non-pharmacological approaches that can assist in providing quality sleep.