This 10 Losses Due to Sleep Deprivation
You never feel cranky and dizzy? Maybe it's due to lack of sleep. Do not ever take for granted this state! Lack of sleep can affect your sex life, memory, health, appearance, and even make your body 'stretchy'.
Here are 10 surprising things that happen due to lack of sleep:
1. Accidents, lack of sleep is one of the biggest disasters in the history of factors other than nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979, the biggest oil spill Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl nuclear crisis in 1986, and others.
Sound excessive, but you must realize the lack of sleep also affects your safety every day on the road. Drowsiness can slow your time when you are drunk driving equivalents at the wheel.
A study by the Institute of Traffic Safety National Highway America estimates that fatigue is a cause of car accidents and 100 000 deaths occurred during the year 1500 in the U.S.. Where the victim of people under the age of 25 years.
The same study shows, if you lack sleep or have a low quality of sleep can cause accidents and injuries at work. In one study, workers who complain of excessive daytime drowsiness vulnerable injured while working and continuing the same accident at work.
2. Decreased concentration of 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 "strengthening" of memory in the mind. If you are not getting 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 stages of 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 with insomnia, sleep disorder characterized by difficulty sleeping and stayed awake all night - also experienced a similar health risk.
4. Decreased sex drive experts reported, the lack of sleep 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, respiratory problems that disrupt sleep, causing sluggish sexual arousal. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2002 showed that almost all people who suffer from sleep apnea have lower levels of testosterone. And almost half of people who suffer from severe sleep apnea have a low testosterone level at night.
5. Causes depression In 1997 study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported the people who sleep less than five hours per day for seven days led to 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 who have a strong association with depression. In a study in 2007 involving 10,000 people, revealed that people with insomnia five times more vulnerable 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. On the positive side, a good sleep pattern can help treat depression.
6. Affect the health of skin Most people have pale skin and puffy eyes after a few sleepless nights. The situation is really a chronic lack of sleep can lead to dull skin, fine lines on the face and dark circles under the eyes.
If you are not getting enough sleep, your body release more stress hormones or cortisol. In excessive amounts, cortisol can break down skin collagen, or proteins that keep skin smooth and elastic.
Sleep deprivation can also cause the body less growth hormone release. When we were young, human growth hormone encourages the growth. In this case helps increase muscle mass, skin thicken, and strengthen bones.
"This occurs when the body is sleeping soundly-which we call a slow wave sleep (SWS) - growth hormone is released," said Phil Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
7. Forgetfulness Do not want to forget the best memories in your life? Try to multiply sleep. In 2009, researchers from the American and French finding that the brain called the event "" sharp-wave ripples "responsible strengthen the memory in the brain. It is also transferring information from the hippocampus to the neocortex in the brain, where long-term memories are stored. Sharp wave ripples most occur during sleep.
8. Body so stretchy If you ignore the effects of sleep deprivation, be prepared with the threat of being overweight. Lack of sleep associated with increased hunger and appetite, and possibly could become obese. According to a 2004 study, people who sleep less than six hours a day, nearly 30 percent more likely to become 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 satiety signals of leptin to the brain and stimulate the appetite. Short sleep time was associated with decreased leptin and an increase in ghrelin.
Lack of sleep not only stimulate the appetite. It also stimulates the desire to eat fatty foods and foods high in carbohydrates. The ongoing research investigates whether adequate sleep should be a standard part of a weight-loss program.
9. Increase the risk of death in the second Whitehall study, British researchers at 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 research published in 2007, those who have been sleeping 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 the events. State's limp body to make we can not judge the situation accurately and wisely. Your lack of sleep is very vulnerable to a bad rating when it comes time to assess what is missing something.
In a fast paced world today, sleep habits become a kind of badge of honor. Specialists on the bed saying, you're wrong if you think you are fine despite lack of sleep because no matter where you work in any profession, will be a big problem if you can not judge things well.
"Studies show that from time to time, people who slept for six hours instead of seven or eight hours a day, began to feel that they have adapted to the circumstances lack of sleep. They're used to it," says Gehrman.
"But if you look at the results of tests of mental performance and alertness, their value continues to deteriorate. It explains how lack of sleep disturb our daily activities."
