However many people underestimate the negative impact of the physical and mental condition due to lack of sleep or insomnia. It says sleep can also be a reliever number of health problems. Do you not believe? Here it is seven health disorder that can be treated with sleep, as reported by the Huffingtonpost.
- Weight gain
- Risk of Getting Diabetic Lack of sleep causes a person to easily hungry and love to eat sugar and fat-laden foods, and this triggers another problem, namely the risk of type 2 diabetes.
- Not interested in having sex WebMD reported both men and women will tend to be lazy or not interested in having sex when they are sleep deprived.
- Memory decline Cut hours of sleep as well as limit the time it takes a person to acquire the most important phase in which rapid eye movement sleep (REM). The bad news, this is the closest phase influence on the improvement of learning and memory. So people who sleep less, their memory will decrease.
In the body of people who haved good quality sleep, excessive calories will not hoard to increase energy. This was confirmed by a study that says that children who have adequate hours of sleep consume fewer calories. Similarly, adults who sleep enough, they tend to choose smaller portions of food than their colleagues who lack of sleep.
People who sleep quite well more wise in choosing foods. From a study, found that people who sleep less tend to consume more high-calorie snacks and junk food than when they slept enough.
Not only that, people who sleep and wake up at the same hour each day was also reported to have a number of lower body fat. All of these studies show the strong relationship between sleep and the hormones that regulate hunger.
A study in 2012 found the lack of sleep impairs the response of fat cells to insulin. No wonder after four consecutive nights experiencing sleep deprivation, sleep-deprived people will have insulin levels dropped by 16 percent and sensitivity of fat cells they also drop as much as 30 percent. This leads to obesity or diabetes prone participants.
This means that there is not only an indication of the mood a person experiences fatigue but also because of hormonal factors. Some studies also found a link between sleep patterns with hormone testosterone in men, ie the lack of sleep lowers levels of the sex hormones.
