Hello and welcome to today’s episode of Health & Fitness – Medicine. In this session, we’re diving into a topic that affects every single one of us, often more than we realize: sleep. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, and yet so many people treat rest as optional, a luxury rather than a necessity. But modern science has shown that sleep is not just downtime—it is a powerful, active process that repairs the body, balances the mind, and sustains life. To understand health and healing, we must first understand why sleep matters