Sleep can boost your immune system
Sleep can help your body produce an essential protein called cytokines which is responsible for fighting off infection and inflammation. “Research done actually years ago showed that when people are sleep deprived, they do not have as vigorous a response to vaccination,” Kryger said.
In addition, sleep improves immune cells called T cells. “T cells are a type of… immune cells that fight against intracellular pathogens, for example, virus-infected cells such as flu, HIV, herpes, and cancer cells,” Stoyan Dimitrov, PhD, a researcher at the University of Tübingen and an author of the study, told Healthline.
