C. Booth
Last Updated on January 7, 2021
© 123RF.comEveryone has experienced sleepless nights whether by binge-watching episodes of Game of Thrones or just by stressing over many things. Since we were kids, we have heard people telling us that a good night sleep is very important to our physical, emotional, and mental health, and obviously, they are right.
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Sleep deprivation can cause serious issues to the brain, it can affect your ability to think clearly, make decisions, and react to situations. Also, it can lead to psychological problems that are very hard to treat. So, we asked our doctors, and we looked through many studies and they all had so many things to say.
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Blood Pressure
According to Sheldon G. Sheps, M.D, for the Mayo Clinic, less than 6 hours of sleep ups our risk to have high blood pressure because the body can’t regulate the production of stress hormones when we lack sleep.
So, if your sleepless nights were the result of stress in the first place, your body can translate all of this into a physical problem like hypertension, which is bad news! A high blood pressure can lead to strokes,
Car Accidents
According to the Foundation for Traffic Safety, drivers who had five to six hours sleep per night are more likely to get into a car accident compared to drivers who sleep for more than seven hours. Technically and physiologically, if you are sleep deprived, then your level of impairment is comparable to someone who is drunk.
Furthermore, and according to another research from 2017, when your eyes are tired and blurry, they delay communication between neurons in the brain, which dangerously affect the decision-making while driving.
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