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.
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Your body indicates if you want to sleep or not, and the body clock adjusts itself to a new sleeping habit.point 199 | This depends on light and darkness.point 229 |
If there is sunlight or even artificial light, it senses that you have to be conscious and alert.point 80 | Leaving your body to not get the rest you need.point 118 | So for a day sleep, you need to keep sunlight out of your bedroom to keep your body clock from being confused.point 207 |
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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.point 231 |
Mark Wu, assistant professor of neurology, medicine, genetic medicine and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.point 101 | “What this could cause, they can’t really say except it’s probably not good.point 183 | ”point 190 | 1
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.point 359 |
We think that may be related to the negative health outcomes associated with long-term shift work,” Dijk said.point 101 | “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.point 264 |
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