Sleep is so vital to health and wellbeing that without enough of it: your immune system starts to slip, your memory falters, bad moods fester, tempers get stirred from surges of stress hormones, weight gain and body pains can flare and over 700 genes at a minimum are adversely “turned on” when you are in sleep deprivation. That’s not counting the dark circles, accelerated aging and general feeling of exhaustion that sucks the magic from life.