We know that sleep recharges our energy and that lack of sleep will affect our daily function and freshness, but these are just simple and superficial problems of lack of sleep. The cumulative effect of sleep deprivation can be devastating for our health. Some of this information will surprise you, but will explain some things that you may not have linked to your sleeping habits:

Cancer: Particularly breast cancer and prostate cancer. In fact, the link between lack of sleep and cancer has been investigated in such a comprehensive way that the World Health Organization defined shift work as a carcinogen.

Weight Gain: For those who try to maintain a healthy weight, lack of sleep is not recommended at all. Fatigue makes people hungrier, and people who don’t sleep enough hours tend to consume hundreds of calories more a day.

Increases The Risk Of Infections: Studies have revealed that pro-inflammatory proteins are found in large amounts in people suffering from a lack of sleep. The tendency to inflammation is a danger in itself that can lead to many other diseases.

Depression: Lack of sleep not only affects the physical state, but also the mental state. One of the common side effects of lack of sleep is depression. The psychological distress that comes with decreased sleep is a fertile ground for various mental-health issues.

Decrease In Emotional Intelligence: Lack of sleep is not expressed only in personal emotional damage. A person who doesn’t get enough sleep finds difficulties to connect and read the feelings of others, including family, friends, and colleagues, which may turn out to have serious consequences.

Weakening Of The Immune System: It’s well known that when you’re sick you need to rest a lot and let your immune system do its work, but the immune system’s ability is a two-way street. It means that if rest is working better to speed up the healing process, restlessness hurts its abilities and leaves our body vulnerable to disease.

Increases The Risk Of Diabetes: Many studies have shown that lack of sleep increases the body’s resistance to insulin. The meaning of this effect is that it significantly increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes.

Permanent Damage To The Skin: Lack of sleep causes the body to release excess amounts of the stress hormone cortisol. One of the actions of this hormone is breaking down the collagen in the skin, the protein that keeps our skin smooth and supple.

Neuronal Waste: New research created a debate among researchers about the ways in which sleep promotes the removal of ‘neuronal debris’ from the brain. This in turn may affect neurological conditions like MS, Alzheimer, and ME.

Decrease In Life Expectancy: The statistics on this issue are clear – people who sleep less than six hours a night have four times the risk of death in the next ten years than people who sleep six hours or more at night.

Heart Disease: Tension and stress caused by lack of sleep causes the body to release hormones that can cause a heart attack. In fact, people who sleep less than six hours a night increase their risk of death by 48% as a result of heart complications later in life.

Our lives work better when we sleep well and there’s so much going on in our heads, it’s no wonder sometimes we find it difficult to let the melatonin release into our brains and let it relax into a deep sleep.

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SleepWell – A meditative CD that helps you relax withoutdoing it consciously.

Notebook – It’s amazing how appreciating what we have achieved enables us tolet go of what we haven’t. Spend five minutes before you go to sleep writingdown five good things that happened that day, even if it’s just “I’ve survivedanother day.”

LoveurSleep – Oral vitamin Spray will help your body create the melatonin youneed naturally and you will find yourself drifting off into a deep slumberwithout thinking about it. However, consult your doctor before taking it ifyou’re already on medication.

Lavender Candle – Relax in thebath before bed and let the aroma relax your mind.

Lavender Pillowcase Spray – Give your pillowcase thatperfect relaxing smell for you to rest your weary head on.

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