People bang on about eating a lot; what we need to eat or not eat, when we need to eat etc, but the one thing that does not come up as often is how much growing we do in our sleep. If you’re lying down for 7-8 hours a night, resting, what is your body doing but recuperating or recharging. Processing, making use of all these foods and nutrients or otherwise that we have put in there. It’s like a factory that hasn’t shut down. Its open 24 hours a day and major growth happens when sleeping.
We have actually woken up some mornings convinced that our children are taller than when they went to bed. And if we noticed it, guaranteed it’s a thing other parents have noticed too. Perhaps it’s just more obvious in children who have still to grow, but our bodies don’t stop changing, digesting and processing just because we stopped growing up. Some people gain weight considerably as they age, others, especially older demographics may lose it. Either way to think that we do not change, or that we cannot influence it is wrong, and the majority of this is done when our eyes are closed and it’s so dark we don’t even notice it.