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Sleep Architecture Enhancement

Meaning

Sleep architecture enhancement refers to therapeutic and lifestyle strategies aimed at optimizing the quality, duration, and proper sequencing of the distinct stages of sleep: Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) Stages 1, 2, and 3 (deep sleep), and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. A robust and well-structured sleep architecture is fundamentally necessary for hormonal health, as the secretion of critical hormones like Growth Hormone and Cortisol follows specific, stage-dependent patterns. Clinical interventions focus on improving the proportion of restorative deep and REM sleep to maximize the body’s repair and regulatory processes.