What difference could an extra hour of sleep make in your life? Maybe quite a lot, some experts would say. Studies show that the gap between getting just enough sleep and getting too little sleep may affect your health, your mood, your weight, and even your sex life.
If you're getting less than the recommended seven or eight hours of sleep a night, here are some reasons that you should shut down your computer,silence or turn off your mobile device, and go to bed an hour early tonight.
1. Better Health : Getting a good night's sleep won't grant you immunity from disease. But study after study has found a link between insufficient sleep and some serious health problems, such as heart disease, heart attacks, diabetes, and obesity.
2. Better Sex Life: According to a poll conducted, up to 26% of people say that their sex lives tend to suffer because they're just too tired. There's evidence that in men, impaired sleep can be associated with lower testosterone levels -- although the exact nature of the link isn't clear.
Of course, not getting enough sleep can affect your love life in less direct ways too. "If you're a 28-year-old who's so exhausted you're more likely to fall asleep during a date at the movies, that's not good".#laughs#
3. Less Pain: If you have chronic pain -- or acute pain from a recent injury -- getting enough sleep may actually make you hurt less. Many studies have shown a link between sleep loss and lower pain threshold. Unfortunately, being in pain can make it hard to sleep.
4. Lower Risk Of Injury: Sleeping enough might actually keep you safer.When you're overtired, you're more likely to trip, or fall off a ladder, or cut yourself while chopping vegetables,household accidents like that can have serious consequence when one is exhausted.
5. Better Mood: Getting enough sleep won't guarantee a sunny disposition. But you have probably noticed that when you're exhausted, you're more likely to be cranky. That's not all. "Not getting enough sleep affects you emotionally". "When you're too tired, you're more likely to snap at your boss, or burst into tears, or start laughing uncontrollably."#Guilty ad charged#
6. Better Weight Control. Getting enough sleep could help you maintain your weight -- and conversely, sleep loss goes along with an increased risk of weight gain.
#Do you know why? Part of the problem is behavioral. If you're overtired, you might be less likely to have the energy to go for that jog or cook a healthy dinner after work,so it is obvious you fall asleep the moment you step into your house,sleep for few hours and then wakeup to start making dinner or you are likely to stop at an eatery to have a snack or may be junks.
#Result: people who are tired are just plain hungrier -- and they seem to crave high-fat and high-calorie foods specifically.
7. Clearer thinking. Have you ever woken up after a bad night's sleep, feeling fuzzy and easily confused, like your brain can't get out of first gear?#lol#
"Sleep loss can affect how you think,"It impairs your cognition, your attention, and your decision-making." Studies have found that people
8. Better memory. Feeling forgetful? Sleep loss could be to blame. Studies have shown that while we sleep, our brains process and consolidate our memories from the day. If you don't get enough sleep, it seems like those memories might not get stored correctly -- and can be lost.
People who didn't sleep in between were much more likely to "remember" a word that they hadn't actually seen before.#funny huh#.
9. Stronger immunity. Could getting enough sleep prevent the common cold? One preliminary study put the idea to the test.
People who got seven hours of sleep a night or less were almost three times as likely to get sick as the people who got at least eight hours of sleep a night.Still, you can’t go wrong getting eight hours of sleep when possible.
Make a change tonight.
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