The effects of insomnia can range from mildy annoying to terribly debilitating. getting a good night's sleep on a consistent basis can go a long way towards improving energy, fighting disease and better mental function.

Sleep helps to improve the acid-alkaline balance in the body.

While your at rest, your digestive system is processing and absorbing the minerals from the food and drink you consumed that day. Minerals such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, cobalt and copper; are the principal alkaline minerals in the body. During sleep these alkaline buffers are transported to the cells so that you wake up nice and alkaline. That is provided you ate some food, and drank some liquid, that contained these alkaline forming minerals.

Kidneys hard at work

Next, the kidneys are hard at work during sleep. They collect the excess acid from the body fluids. These are then expelled when you wake up and go to the bathroom. This is why your first morning urine is always more acidic. If you have been testing your urine pH, moring pH should be more acidic than a pH test done later in the day. That's the way it should be, if all things are working properly.

Restorative Sleep

While we are sleeping the body is also busy repairing and rejuvenating all the various systems of the body. Too much stress wreaks havoc on the mind and body, but a good night's sleep can help to undo some of the damage.

Stress is probably the biggest cause of an acid-alkaline imbalance in the human body. Even a bigger factor than diet. Therefore anything we can do to de-stress can go a long way toward helping our pH balance. Including getting a good night's sleep.