• April 23, 2024

One night with less than six hours of dream It seems harmless, but what happens when this episode is repeated day after day. Obviously your organism is going to claim you, because studies confirm the damage you do if you do not Do you sleep the necessary .

Specialists of the National Sleep Foundation they claim that for the organism he regenerate , people between 26 and 64 need sleep between seven Y nine hours by night . Ignoring this warning can be worth the following consequences. "

1. You increase the risk of suffering a cerebrovascular event

Who sleep less than six hours per night are four times more likely to suffer a cerebrovascular accident because it is associated with increase in blood pressure , greater blood coagulation and cardiac arrhythmia , researchers from the University of Birmingham .

2. Causes the loss of your memory

It has probably happened to you that when you wake up frequently you feel tired and you tend to forget things more. Over time, this response becomes more acute and you brain he deteriorate , causing you permanent cognitive damage . This is because you do not allow time for the memory storage functions to be reactivated, explain scientists from the University of California .

3. It predisposes you to the Alzhaimer

Sleep accelerates the cleaning of toxins of the brain , but not completing the necessary hours, the body accumulates beta-amyloid, a toxic substance that predisposes Alzheimer's , researchers conclude University of Rochester of the United States.

In addition, researchers in neurology of the University of Uppsala , in Sweden, find that insufficient sleep hours increase the presence of enolasa and the S-100B protein in the blood, responsible for the brain and brain lesions neurodegeneration .

4. You kill your sexual desire

Sleep specialists ensure that both sleep deprived men and women have thelibido lower and show less interest in the sex . They have low energy and are regularly tired .

A study published in the magazine Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that men with apnea dream they have low levels of testosterone , situation that conditions them to a lower sexual desire.

5. Your skin reflects it

The body speaks for itself, being the skin is the largest organ manifests it with dry and a "yellowish" tone, which is known as skin sallow . There are also dark circles, bags. What is more, the lines of expression are accentuated and inflaman the eyes.

The above happens because the body releases too much cortisol hormone stress , that in excessive quantities can break the collagen of the skin which is in charge of giving tonicity and elasticity, says Phil Gehrman, specialist in sleep disorders .

6. Your vision weakens

Lack of sleep is associated with a double vision , tired Y cloudy . The longer you are awake, the more visual faults you will have. The eyes are open, but visual information is not processed normally because the frontoparietal area of ​​the eye is affected. brain , Michael Chee , of the Duke University in Singapore.

7. You generate overproduction of urine

While Do you sleep , your body decreases the normal production of urine, although if you deprive yourself of dream you provoke the callproduction of night urine , linked to the nocturia That is the need to go to the bathroom many times during the night.

8. You do not respond to vaccines

When you do not sleep enough, you immune system It does not work properly. A study in which a group of people were vaccinated against Hepatitis A , who slept for four weeks an average of eight hours a day, developed two times more antibodies against hepatitis A than those who slept little.

9. You feel unhappy

A study directed Daniel Kahneman , psychologist and Nobel Prize , concludes that a bad night of dream It is one of two factors that ruins the mood of women during the day. They are irritable , annoyed and without motivation , which prevents him from enjoying what surrounds them.

10. You welcome the overweight

A recent study of Weill Cornell Medical College of Doha in Qatar notes that those who lose only 30 minutes of sleep from Monday to Friday are 72% more likely to develop obesity compared to those who sleep eight hours.

To avoid all these effects, experts advise having a Exact time for rest , same that you must follow the weekends. The debt of dream It is a very high price that you pay with your health and emotional well-being.