Lack of sleep is a risk for mental and physical health

When you only sleep for 5 to 6 hours everyday, you put at risk your mental and physical health. Even when it has become a habit. Repeating a moderate deficit of sleep, like one to two hours per night, accumulates and may adversely affect the health, explains researcher Dr. Michael Grötsinger from the Deutsch Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and nervous Medicine (SGPPN) in Berlin.

Particularly affected are the heart, cardiovascular system, hormonal balance, regulation of blood sugar and the ability to respond and the immune system also changes. The concerned should not participate in traffic, operate machinery or enter the operating room. Unfortunately the concerned do not feel bad and do not recognize that they are tired, warns researcher Dr. Gryotsinger.

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Sleep Disorders: narcolepsy

If you have problems sleeping and it affects your mental, physical and emotional condition, then it is possible you are suffering from Sleep Disorders.

What is narcolepsy?

Chronic sleep disorder characterized by sudden onset of sleep and wasting drowsiness during the day.

People who suffer from narcolepsy find it very difficult to stay awake for a long time. Narcolepsy is often confused with depression,

What are the signs and symptoms of narcolepsy?

• Excessive daytime sleepiness
One of the main features of narcolepsy is uncontrolled sleep during the day with huge drowsiness. People who suffer from narcolepsy fall asleep without warning, anywhere and anytime.

• abrupt loss of muscle tone
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Not really clear why we sleep?

For decades, scientists are trying to unravel the mechanism of sleep and still have not succeeded in clarifying this matter.

According to the allegations of U.S. experts in sleep and, supported by their colleagues from around the world, one thing is certain: mammals die without sleep.

Continued absence of sleep leads to hallucinations, changes in mood and in some cases even death.

There are two phases of sleep, in which the eyes move rapidly under the eyelids, and the other which do not move quickly.

That in which the eyes move slowly are to conserve energy, and virtually stops the aging of the body, this is something like quiescent sleep. Metabolism is slowed and the processes in the body are running very slowly.

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