In your attempts to build muscle and also to be great, you have to know a lot about health food, exercises and supplements but not much around the demand for quality sleep.

Sleep has a direct link to muscle mass gain as it promotes the release of human growth hormone (HGH) which is required for protein synthesis.Usually, we don't recognize that we might not receive the minimum 8 hours of sound sleep required to get the highest benefits from the muscle building efforts of ours.

Hand, computer and phone usage, food additives, anxiety and advancing age employ a bearing on the length and quality of rest we get.

The release of HGH is top in the first period of rest reaching the peak of its at the gradual trend rest (SWS) point.A point of interest is the fact that HGH discharge decreases with age.

For example, studies indicate that during 30-40 yrs of age, the volume of HGH released over a twenty four hours period decreases almost as 2 to 3 folds.

Additionally, SWS which is probably the deepest phase of sleep decreases considerably during this particular age range.