When you don’t get enough sleep, it’s not only the love affair with your bed that you lose, you also lose parts of your health, both physical and mental, so not only are you losing sleep, you’re also losing your mind and affecting your body negatively. Here are just negative effects that can happen to you if you don’t sleep enough.
1. Multiple studies have suggested a relationship between chronic sleep deprivation and increased risk of obesity; also research has linked short-term sleep deprivation with a propensity to load on bigger portions, a preference for high-calorie, high-carb foods and greater likelihood of choosing unhealthy foods while grocery shopping.
2. Young and beautiful won’t apply to you, most people experience shallow skin and puffy eyes after a few nights of missed sleep, but it turns out that chronic sleep loss can lead to uninspiring skin, fine lines and dark circles under the eyes. And no cream will help.
3. A small, recent study from the journal, SLEEP suggests that even one night of sleep deprivation could result in a loss of brain tissue, the study concludes that a good night’s sleep may be critical for maintaining brain health.
4. Early studies have linked lack of sleep to both colo-rectal (butt) and aggressive breast cancer, what happens exactly is that when you lack sleep the production of the hormone melatonin is disrupted, this hormone inhibits the multiplication of a wide range of cancer cell types, as well as triggering cancer cell self-destruction, it also interferes with the new blood supply tumors required for their rapid growth. Basically, more melatonin, less cancer.
5. A different study from SLEEP that evaluated 1,741 men and women over the course of 10 to 14 years, found that men who slept fewer than six hours had a significant increase in mortality risk, even after adjusting for diabetes, hypertension and other factors.
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