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.

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.

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