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Lack of sleep has been widely mentioned can have a bad impact on your body health.
Sleep, diet and exercise balanced, is the foundation of good health. Lack of sleep that lasts chronically will increase the risk of serious medical conditions such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
Lack of sleep can lead to increased production of cortisol body, which is also known as stress hormones. It also causes improper hormonal function.It can also increase blood sugar levels in the body, which leads to type 2 diabetes.
Following are some of the side effects resulting from less sleep more serious
1. Heart Disturbed
Sleeping too short or too long will cause bad health. If your sleep may be less than five hours or more than nine hours, respectively, it has been shown to have a negative impact on your health. You also have the possibility of an increase in coronary heart disease or have a stroke if you sleep poorly.
2. Increases cancer risk
If you have a short duration of sleep, you are susceptible to breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer. Workers who are accustomed to working overnight may also suffer a higher risk of cancer.
3. Causes of depression
Lack of sleep can significantly improve symptoms of depression. In a poll in 2005, people suffering from anxiety or depression were asked to calculate their sleep habits.
From there it was revealed that most of the respondents had a sleeping clock of less than six hours in the evenings. They are many who experience Insomnia, and this insomnia is often associated with depression. Unfortunately, the Devil's circle, the depressive symptom itself can also affect one's ability to fall asleep.
4. Damaged skin
Just one night no sleep can cause swollen eyes and pale skin. If a person continues to experience lack of sleep, this damage can become permanent. Dark circles under the eyes, skin and pale fine lines on the face can be permanent.
Skin elasticity can also become damaged over time when one does not get enough sleep. Chronic fatigue due to lack of sleep causes excessive stress which causes the body to produce more cortisol hormones, which break down the proteins in the skin that make the elastic and delicate skin decrease.
5. Excess weight
Regular sleep helps the body maintain an appetite and schedule hunger regularly. Therefore, a person with less sleep will be easily hungry and inclined to eat hold, because in this condition there is an increase in the production of ghrelin hormones that stimulate hunger and lower production which suppresses the appetite. If this continues to occur, then the weight can rise excessively (obesity).
6. Thinking problems
Lack of sleep can cause some major cognition problems (thought). Improper sleep will affect your brain mostly and you will lose energy to think creatively or understand something clearly. So, to avoid the problem of thinking, sleep well.
7. Forgetful
Lack of sleep can make you more out of the art. A study conducted shows that sleep has an impact on learning and memory. Sleep is essential for consolidating the things we learn in the brain. So, proper rest is necessary to lock new information in the brain.
8. Decreased sex hormones
Not enough sleep every day can reduce your sex passion. Young men who lost sleep for one week showed a decrease in testosterone levels. Less sleep less than five hours reduces sex hormone levels up to 10 to 15 percent.
9.Risk of Stroke
One of the dangerous diseases due to sleep deprivation is the occurrence of stroke, short sleep can increase the risk of stroke, according to research year 2012. Adults who are accustomed to sleeping less than six hours per night have four times the risk of stroke, quoted from HuffPost.
10. Diabetes risk
A study in 2012 examined the relationship between lack of sleep and insulin resistance, a sign of diabetic risk factors. The study found that among healthy adolescents, the shortest sleep has the highest insulin resistance, which means the body does not use insulin effectively, thus one of the consequences of sleep deprivation is the increased risk of being exposed Diabetic disease .
11. Old Fast
Lack of sleep also affects your skin and makes you look older at a young age. People who sleep poorly and bad sleep habits seem much older than the actual age, such as a study mention. It causes fine lines, wrinkles, uneven skin tone and marked looseness of the skin.
12. Porous bones
According to a study in 2012, long-term sleep seems to contribute to osteoporosis (bone deterioration). Researchers found changes in bone mineral density and bone marrow in rats. Perhaps the same effect can also occur in humans.
13. Relationship with a partner full of stress
Lack of sleep can cause low energy, fatigue and drowsiness and this can once again affect your relationship, due to the uncomfortable feeling. You tend to be moody and easy emotions on your spouse. People who have a restful sleep with their partners and feel safe in a relationship.