Sleep, It works Prevent Disease

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Closed his eyes and body energy not necessarily be a problem for you doubled that tend to have difficulty sleeping at night. In fact, if you sleep less than 7-8 hours a night, you are risking health.

Imagine a drug that could treat various health problems, ranging from cancer, heart disease, excess weight gain to a drug that can improve memory and performance of the athletic, or just the flu. Actually, the answer is not a medical drugs, such as injections or oral medications. We even have known him since long. “Drugs” is sleeping.

According to experts, sleep at least 7-8 hours a night is the ideal time for the body to get “treatment” efficacy. Unfortunately, as the latest poll results by self.com, approximately 15 percent of us only slept for six hours a night.

“Sleeping is no different to diet or exercise,” said Carol Ash DO, sleep specialists in Jamesburg, New Jersey, as Legal lansir from self.com, Monday (25/1/2010).

We know that eating 10 percent more calories per day can add 15 pounds of body weight during the year. But, we do not understand that sleeping less than ideal sleep time, carrying the same risk of being overweight.

In fact, women who slept five hours a night at least the possibility of increasing the minimum weight 33 pounds in the next 16 years than those who slept seven hours or more. According to a report of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

That is just the beginning. Another fact to say, very good for our body to recover after the event through the five stages of sleep a night.

The first four stages is the key to improving health metabolism, learning, and recall (memory). While the fifth or final stage (rapid eye movement / REM) necessary to restore the mood and form emotional memories. Missed one or two cycles, then the immune system, heart health, brain function, will be disrupted.

More than 8 hours

Sleep more than eight hours is also not good for the body; raise the sugar levels are identical with type 2 diabetes, according to the journal Diabetes Care. And sleeping more than nine hours associated with increased risk of death, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego.

Less than 7 hours

If you sleep less than seven hours each night, probably three times as you suffer from cold and flu. The reason, sleep helps improve the body’s response to infection. Excess weight is also a concern. We produce more ghrelin hormone associated with appetite and less leptin when we lack sleep.

6 hours or less

You may think your body functions running fine when sleeping six hours or less. But, sleeping six hours or less a night just for two weeks will affect your memory, time to react to a thing, the brain and cognition in general. The same result happens if you stay awake for more than 48 hours. Thus confirmed a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

5 hours or less

Slept five hours or less will weaken the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels, which double your risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the journal Diabetes Care. And people who slept five hours or less a night, 50 percent more likely experience high blood pressure than those who slept more than six hours. This is likely due to increased hormone levels of cortisol, stress hormones that constrict the heart arteries, according to a report in the journal Sleep.

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