Sleep-Deprivation Has Huge Health Risk To Us That Many Do Not Know You Must Know This

Sleep-Deprivation Has Huge Health Risk To Us That Many Do Not Know You Must Know This

Sleep is very important for everybody because, during your sleep, most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state, helping to restore the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems; these are vital processes that maintain mood, memory, and cognitive performance, and play a large role in the function of the endocrine and immune systems.

Now here are health risks when you are sleep deprived

Physiological effects

Generally, sleep deprivation may result in:

• aching muscles
• confusion, memory lapses or loss
• depression
• development of false memory
• hallucinations
• hand tremor
• headaches
• malaise
• stye also known as a hordeolum is an infection of an oil gland in the eyelid.
• periorbital puffiness, commonly known as "bags under eyes" or eye bags
• increased blood pressure
• increased stress hormone levels
• increased risk of diabetes
• increased risk of fibromyalgia
• irritability
• nystagmus (rapid involuntary rhythmic eye movement)
• obesity
• seizures
• temper tantrums in children
• yawning
• mania
• symptoms similar to:
• attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• psychosis

Diabetes

According to a study on 2005 over 1400 participants showed that participants who habitually slept few hours were more likely to have associations with type 2 diabetes. It has been suggested that people experiencing short-term sleep restrictions process glucose more slowly than individuals receiving a full 8 hours of sleep, increasing the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes. But this study was merely correlational, the direction of cause and effect between little sleep and diabetes is uncertain.

On the brain

A study conducted in the year 2000 by UCSD School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in San Diego, used functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to monitor activity in the brains of sleep-deprived subjects while performing simple verbal learning tasks. Researchers interpreted this result as indicating that the brain of the average sleep-deprived subject had to work harder than that of the average non-sleep-deprived subject to accomplish a given task, and from this indication, they inferred the conclusion the brains of sleep-deprived subjects were attempting to compensate for adverse effects caused by sleep deprivation.

On growth

A 1999 study found that sleep deprivation resulted in reduced cortisol secretion the next day, driven by increased subsequent slow-wave sleep. Sleep deprivation was found to enhance activity on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (which controls reactions to stress and regulates body functions such as digestion, the immune system, mood, sex, or energy usage) while suppressing growth hormones. The results supported previous studies, which observed adrenal insufficiency in idiopathic hypersomnia.

On attention and working memory

Among the possible physical consequences of sleep deprivation, deficits in attention and working memory are perhaps the most important; such lapses in mundane routines can lead to unfortunate results, from forgetting ingredients while cooking to missing a sentence while taking notes. Performing tasks that require attention appears to be correlated with a number of hours of sleep received each night, declining as a function of hours of sleep deprivation. Working memory is tested by such methods as choice-reaction time tasks.

On driving ability

According to a 2000 study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers in Australia and New Zealand reported that sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk. People who drove after being awake for 17–19 hours performed worse than those with a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent, which is the legal limit for drunk driving in most western European countries and Australia.

Other effects

In addition, as a result of continuous muscular activity without proper rest time, effects such as cramping are much more frequent in sleep-deprived individuals. Extreme cases of sleep deprivation have been reported to be associated with hernias, muscle fascia tears, and other such problems commonly associated with physical overexertion.

Below is the require sleep needs of people from age 0-month-old babies to 65 years old and above adults.

Age and condition                           Sleep Needs

Newborns (0–3 months)                 14 to 17 hours

Infants (4–11 months)                 12 to 15 hours

Toddlers (1–2 years)                 11 to 14 hours

Preschoolers (3–4 years)         10 to 13 hours

School-age children (5–12 years)     9 to 11 hours

Teenagers (13–17 years)                  8 to 10 hours

Adults (18–64 years)                  7 to 9 hours

Older Adults (65 years and over)  7 to 8 hours

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