Health damage
It may be a lengthy evening to watch your favorite series, read a book, or study a lot to compensate for what they couldn't do during the day, but be careful! did not? Read on to know!
One popular English proverb says that "the hour of sleep before midnight is equal to two hours after it," and in Egypt most mothers find the phrase "night sleep is not like day sleep" on their children's ears.
This is not only the opinion of popular quotes, but thousands of scientific research around the world indicate the harm of watching over physical and mental health, pregnant health and the natural development of children and fetuses.
What happens in the body as a result of staying up late and lack of sleep?
Sleeping at night is associated with the secretion of the hormone melatonin, which increases its secretion in the dark and reduces the presence of daylight.
And when you stay up late and reduce the number of hours of sleep at night, you deprive your body of producing enough of it, and the levels of this hormone in your body disrupt, which negatively affects the regularity of the following functions you have:
Rates and times of sleep and waking up (biological clock).
body temperature.
Fluid balance inside the body.
Feeling hungry and full.
Stages of sleep
In order to understand how sleep can adversely affect your health, it may be useful to familiarize yourself with the different stages of sleep a person is going through, and their relationship to nightlife.
During sleep, a person has two main stages of sleep:
1- Rapid Eye Movement -REM stage
During this stage, thoughts, memories, and events experienced by the individual during the day are addressed, and dreams also occur during them.
2- Non Rapid Eye Movement - Non-REM
During this stage, many vital functions are renewed, and in the deep stage of this stage (known as "slow wave sleep"):
The brain recovers from overwork during the day.
It secretes hormones, which helps the body to rebuild itself after the effort lost during the day.
The period during which you benefit from "non-rapid eye movement sleep" varies, according to the time you bed.
If you go to sleep between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., your body benefits from a greater amount of "non-rapid sleep movement", compared to someone who sleeps between three in the morning and eleven in the morning.
Although you both get the same amount of sleep (8 hours), staying up late deprives the second of the effects of fatigue in his mind and body during waking up.
The physical damage to sleep
These are the most important physical harm damages:
1- Negative effect on heart health
Lack of sleep at night (less than five hours) and its increase (nine hours or more) negatively affects heart health, but the risk of coronary heart disease or stroke rises in the case of lack of sleep.
So, if you are staying up long and you have to wake up early to perform your tasks and work, then you risk the health of your heart.
2- High risk of cancer
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the risk of breast, colon, rectal and prostate cancer rises in people who sleep less than 7 hours at night.
3- Reduced sexual desire in men
Sleeping five hours or less at night reduces testosterone production by between 10% and 15%, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in June 2011.
4- Obesity and overweight
Sleeping leads to an imbalance in hunger and satiety, which often leads to overweight and obesity, and research indicates that people who sleep less than 6 hours at night are 30% more likely to develop obesity than others.
The reason for this is because staying up and lack of sleep stimulates the secretion of ghrelin responsible for feeling hungry and reduces the secretion of leptin (Leptin), which is responsible for feeling full.
Likewise, the lack of sleep not only stimulates the feeling of hunger, but also raises appetite more towards carbohydrates and foods saturated with fat.
Also, obesity in this case may raise the line of diabetes!
5- Exposure to driving accidents
Staying up long hours and sleeping less than 7 hours a day, while a person has daily work tasks, has to wake up to do it, increases the risk to his life, as a result of increased opportunities for traffic accidents due to a lack of focus.
Causes of psychological, nervous and cognitive damages
These are the harms of watching over your mental health and cognitive abilities:
1- Insomnia
Staying up late at night leads to sleep disturbances, on top of which is insomnia, and it means facing severe difficulty in falling asleep or falling asleep.
2- Loss of focus and learning difficulties
Staying up late at night affects alertness, attention, and the ability to preserve and understand information, as well as the ability to accurately judge matters due to a lack of focus.
3- Forgetting
Scientific research indicates the importance of sleeping enough hours at night to stabilize the information in our minds and make us less likely to forget.
4- Depression
A study conducted in the United States of America in 2005 showed that people who tend to sleep and sleep less than six hours a day are more likely to develop frustration and depression.
In another study of 10,000 American citizens in 2007, it appeared that people with insomnia were more likely to experience depression.
Harm harm to the skin
When you don't get enough sleep, your body secretes more cortisol, which is closely related to feeling stress:
What negatively affects collagen and protein in the skin.
It causes dark color and wrinkles, as well as dark circles around the eyes, which may cause premature aging of your skin.
