10 Dangerous Side Effects Of Lack Of Sleep

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Until the 1950s, most people thought of sleep as a passive, dormant part of our daily lives. We now know that our brains are very active during sleep. Moreover, sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just beginning to understand.

Nerve-signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters control whether we are asleep or awake by acting on different groups of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain. Neurons in the brain stem, which connects the brain with the spinal cord, produce neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine that keep some parts of the brain active while we are awake. Other neurons at the base of the brain begin signaling when we fall asleep. These neurons appear to “switch off” the signals that keep us awake. Research also suggests that a chemical called adenosine builds up in our blood while we are awake and causes drowsiness. This chemical gradually breaks down while we sleep.

According to the National Sleep Foundation, adults should get 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night to feel alert and well rested.

Here are the 10 Dangerous or Unsafe Side Effects of not getting enough of sleep:

1. Increase the risk of diabetes: Long-term sleep neediness raises your risk of growing chronic diseases, including diabetes.

2.Conduces to early death: Sleep is an underlying thing that is necessitated by a human being, it’s just like breathing. People who do not get enough sleep on a unconstipated basis, they have a higher mortality rate of dying early, than those who always get enough sleep.

3. May induce accidents: Drowsy driving, the serious compounding of sleepiness and driving while tired out or fatigued, can conduce to accidents on the road.

4. Kills bedroom ability: Lack of sleep has a lineal impingement to a person’s energy level and can conduce to a high tension, which indirectly affects your libido and this can affect both men and women.

5. Affects Your Memory and Brain: Proper sleep is essential for cognitive health and it plays an important role in thinking and learning.

6. Bad for your heart: Sleep plays a vital role in your body’s ability to heal and repair your blood vessels and heart.

7. Causes Depression: Lack of sleep is joined to depression. It leads to important modifications in brain neurotransmitter functioning, which is one of the reasons behind depression.

8. Taking in weight: According to some expert, people who sleep less than seven hours a day are 30% more probably to be obese than those who get nine hours of sleep or more.

9. Subverts or weakens your resistance: It can also impairment or damage your resistant system, which is designed to protect you from any contagions usual cold, flu and other sickness.

10. Damage your skin: One night of poor sleep can induce tumescent eyes, dark circles under the eyes, and sallow skin immediately.

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blogged: Maria Era Cecilia