Have you been feeling irritable and dizzy? Maybe it's due to lack of sleep. Never underestimate this situation! Lack of sleep can affect sexual life, memory, health, appearance, and even make your body 'stretchy'.
Here are 10 surprising things that happen as a result of lack of sleep:
1. Accident Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest disasters in the history of factors other than the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, the largest oil spill Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl nuclear crisis in 1986, and others.
Sound like an exaggeration, but you should be aware of the lack of sleep also affects your safety every day on the road. Drowsiness can slow down your driving time equivalent when you're drunk at the wheel.
A study conducted by the Traffic Safety Institute National Highway America estimates that fatigue is the cause of 100,000 car accidents and 1,500 deaths occurred during a year in the US. Where victims of people under the age of 25 years.
The same study shows, if you lack sleep or have poor sleep quality can lead to accidents and injuries at work. In one study, workers who complain of excessive daytime drowsiness vulnerable injured at work and constantly experience the same accident during work.
2. Concentrations decreased A good sleep plays an important role in thinking and learning. Lack of sleep can affect many things. First, interfering with alertness, concentration, reasoning, and problem solving. This makes learning difficult and inefficient. Secondly, the sleep cycle at night play a role in "reinforce" the memory in mind. If you do not get enough sleep, you will not be able to remember what you learned and experienced during the day.
3. Serious health problems Sleep disorders and chronic sleep deprivation can lead you to the risk:
* Heart disease * Heart attack * Heart failure * Irregular heartbeat * High blood pressure * Stroke * Diabetes
According to some studies, 90 percent of people insomnia- sleep disorder characterized by difficulty sleeping and staying awake during the night - also experienced similar health risks.
4. Passion decreased sex experts reported that sleep deprivation in male and female libido and reduce the urge to have sex. This is due to depleted energy, drowsiness, and rising tension.
For men who suffer from sleep apnea breathing problems during sleep, causing sexual arousal sluggish. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2002 showed that almost all people who suffer from sleep apnea have low testosterone levels. And nearly half of people who suffer from severe sleep apnea have a low testosterone level at night.
5. Causing Depression In a 1997 study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported that people who sleep less than 5 hours per day for seven days causing stress, anger, sadness, and mental fatigue. In addition, lack of sleep and sleep disorders can cause symptoms of depression.
The most common sleep disorders, namely insomnia which has strong links with depression. In the 2007 study involving 10,000 people, revealed that people with insomnia five times more prone to depression. In fact, insomnia is often one of the first symptoms of depression.
Insomnia and no appetite due to depression are related. Sleep deprivation exacerbates depressive symptoms and depression makes you more difficult to sleep. The plus side, a good sleep pattern can help treat depression.
6. Affect skin health Most people have pale skin and puffy eyes after a few nights of poor sleep. The true circumstances because of chronic lack of sleep can lead to dull skin, fine lines on the face and dark circles under the eyes.
If you do not get enough sleep, your body releases more stress hormones or cortisol. In excessive amounts, cortisol can break down skin collagen, or proteins that keep skin smooth and elastic.
Lack of sleep can also cause a little more body to release growth hormone. When we were young, human growth hormone to encourage growth. In this case helps increase muscle mass, skin thicken, and strengthen bones.
"It occurs when the body is sleeping nyenyak- which we called slow-wave sleep (SWS) - growth hormone is released," said Phil Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
7. Forgetful not want to forget the best memories in your life? Try to multiply sleep. In 2009, researchers from the American and French at finding that the events of the brain called the "" sharp wave ripples "responsible to strengthen the memory in the brain. This event also transfer information from the hippocampus to the neocortex in the brain, where long-term memories are stored. Sharp wave ripples mostly occur during sleep.
8. Body to be stretched If you ignore the effects of sleep deprivation, prepared with the threat of being overweight. Lack of sleep is associated with increased hunger and appetite, and likely to become obese. According to a 2004 study, people who sleep less than six hours a day, nearly 30 percent tend to be more obese than those who slept seven to nine hours a day.
Recent research has focused on the relationship between sleep and peptides that regulate appetite. Ghrelin stimulates hunger and leptin signals satiety to the brain and stimulates the appetite. Short sleep time is associated with decreased leptin and an increase in ghrelin.
Lack of sleep not only stimulates the appetite. It also stimulates the desire to eat fatty foods and foods high in carbohydrates. Ongoing research examines whether adequate sleep should be a standard part of a weight loss program.
9. Increase the risk of death in 2 Whitehall study, British researchers finding out how sleep patterns affect mortality rates of more than 10,000 British civil servants over the past two decades. Based on the results of a study published in 2007, those who sleep less than 5-7 hours a day increased the risk of death due to various factors. Even the lack of sleep increased two-fold risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
10. Particularly damaging assessment of sleep Lack of sleep can affect the interpretation of events. State's limp body that we can not judge the situation accurately and wisely. Your lack of sleep is very vulnerable to bad ratings when it comes time to assess what is lacking in something.
In the fast paced world today, sleep habits become a kind of badge of honor. Specialists on the bed saying, You are wrong if you think fine despite lack of sleep because no matter where you work in any profession, there will be a big problem if you can not judge things properly.
"Studies show that over time, people who slept for 6 hours, instead of the 7 or 8 hours a day, began to feel that they have adapted to the state of sleep deprivation. They're used to it," said Gehrman.
"But if you look at the test results of performance and mental alertness, their value continues to deteriorate. It explains how a lack of sleep disrupt our daily activities."
