Ways Sleep can Improve your Health

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Here are a few ways in which a good sleep can increase your health:

Sleep Increases Immunity

  • If you are prone to catch every flu and cold, your bedtime could be responsible.
    Extended lack of sleep can interrupt your immune system, so you’re less likely to fight off infections and viruses.
    Extended lack of sleep can interrupt your immune system, so you’re less likely to fight off infections and viruses.
  • Extended lack of sleep can interrupt your immune system, so you’re less likely to fight off infections and viruses.

Sleep Can Result In Weight Loss

  • Less sleep can make you weigh more! Research has shown that individuals who sleep less than 7 hours per day are 30% more prone to be overweight than those who get 9 hours of sleep.
  • It’s mainly because people who are sleep-deprived have lower levels of leptin, the biochemical that makes you feel full and greater levels of ghrelin, the hormone that increases hunger.

Mental Well-being Is Boosted By Sleep

  • Given that a single restless night can make you ill-tempered and glum the following day, it’s not startling that chronic sleep might result in long-term mood illnesses like depression and nervousness.
  • When individuals with depression or anxiety were surveyed to gauge their sleeping routines, it turned out that most of them had less than 6 hours sleep per night.

Diabetes Can Be Prevented With Sleep

  • Research has shown that individuals who generally sleep less than 6 hours a night have a bigger risk of getting diabetes.
  • Not getting enough sleep could lead to type 2 diabetes by altering the way the body responds to glucose.

Sleep Decrease Risk of Heart Disease

  • Long-lasting sleep deficiency seems to be connected with increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure and greater levels of certain chemicals connected with inflammation, which might put extra pressure on your heart.

Sleep Increases Your Fertility

  • Trouble conceiving a baby has been established as one of the causes of sleep deprivation.
  • Actually, consistent sleep disruptions can harm fertility by decreasing the secretion of reproductive hormones.

Related Video On Sleep

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