C. Booth
Last Updated on January 7, 2021
To make it easier, we will list the two main reasons how sleep deprivation can hurt your heart:
– High blood pressure (as we mentioned before).
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According to a small 2016 German study, young and healthy shift workers noticed that their blood pressure, stress hormones, and heart rates increase after only one night of sleeping only for three hours, which is a scary thing!
Obviously sleepless nights can affect our health very negatively, and it somehow creates a short-cut towards death, too!
Getting Sick
If you noticed that you are getting sick way too often, then you are not sleeping well (or not washing your hands). According to a research that was published in a 2015 issue of Sleep, people who sleep less than five hours per night are 4 times more likely to catch a cold or the flu, compared to those who sleep for 7 hours or more.
Our immune system launches an inflammatory response when we don’t get enough sleep, and that inflammatory makes it impossible for the body to fight off an invasion of illness-causing virus or bacteria. The effects can happen in less than five days.
Junk Food Cravings
You might think that this is normal and as human beings, we crave junk food all the time. But, do you know that exhaustion has the same effect on your brain as smoking marijuana?
Some researchers found that people who have only one night short of sleep have higher levels of endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol in their brain, and it is a chemical that causes the cravings for smoking marijuana.
However, if you feel sleepy and “snacky” at the same time, you will start consuming more calories than you need which leads to gain weight and a high cholesterol level that increases your chances of having a heart attack.
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