If you deprive yourself of sleep then it can cause several problems.
Tiredness, headache and many health problems arise when we don’t sleep enough. The requirement of sleep varies slightly from person to person, most healthy adults need between 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night to make their body function best.
Your body indicates if you want to sleep or not, and the body clock adjusts itself to a new sleeping habit. This depends on light and darkness.
If there is sunlight or even artificial light, it senses that you have to be conscious and alert. Leaving your body to not get the rest you need. So for a day sleep, you need to keep sunlight out of your bedroom to keep your body clock from being confused.
Also a hormone called melatonin plays a role in your natural sleep-wake cycle. The increase in melatonin promotes sleepiness, while the absence of it leaves you wide awake. According to research, ‘’ melatonin supplements might be helpful in treating sleep disorders, such as delayed sleep phase, and providing some relief from insomnia and jet lag.’’
“This study suggests that mistimed sleep can alter circadian rhythms, so the cycling of many, many genes is impaired,” said Dr.
Mark Wu, assistant professor of neurology, medicine, genetic medicine and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. “What this could cause, they can’t really say except it’s probably not good.”
A senior study author Derk-Jan Dijk, a professor of sleep and physiology at the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom said,”These are quite fundamental processes that are being affected.
We think that may be related to the negative health outcomes associated with long-term shift work,” Dijk said. “Shift workers are at higher risk for many health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, disrupted menstrual cycles and cancer,” he stated.