
Each night when you go to sleep, your body doesn’t simply shut down and stay dormant. Instead, your rest occurs in a progression of four important stages that allow your brain and body to recover and grow. When your body fails to get enough of these necessary steps, it can cause a variety of problems during the waking hours. Here are the four sleep stages, why they’re so important, and how having an untreated sleep disorder like sleep apnea can hurt them.
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