Sleeping late at night has become very fashionable these days. You party well into the wee hours of the morning and then manage to get a few hours of sleep before you have to rush to office. Sometime stiff work targets can also keep you awake till late night. Sleeping late at night comes with a price. Usually the price you have to pay is sleeping less or at least not as much as you should.
If you are a night owl who enjoys lazing away in front of television till late in the night, then change your sleep habits immediately. Even if you are an ambitious workaholic who can't manage to sleep before midnight every day, you need to rethink your goals in life. Sleeping less than 6 hours at night is not an option. Ideally you should be getting 8 hours of sleep in a day.
WHAT SLEEP POSITIONS SAY ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY
Every time you sleep late and night and wake up with a foggy head, your brain has suffered a tiny concussion. Although your brain will get back to normal with a night of proper rest, you need to imagine the magnitude of damage you are doing to your brain cells.
Here are some of the worst effects of sleeping late at night and not getting enough sleep.
Weight gain is directly proportional to less sleep. If you don't sleep for at least 6 hours at night, your fat metabolism is disturbed. Besides, the more you stay up at night; you tend to munch of high fat foods.
Staying up late at night destroys your white blood cells that give your body immunity. That is why; sleeping late at night means weakened immunity.
If you keep sleeping late at night every day, after a point of time you will not be able to sleep early at all. This is called the delayed sleep syndrome where your sleep cycle begins late.
Sleeping too late at night consistently makes you prone to heart diseases. Sleep deprivation is one of the main causes of rise in the number of patients with heart diseases these days.
Sleeping late spoils the hormonal balance of your body. It can make you glucose intolerant as the amount of insulin your body produces comes down. The final result of this is diabetes.
Most of cannot afford to wake late even if we have slept late. That is why; sleeping late gives you less hours to rest. This puts pressure on the heart and leads to cardiac arrests.
If you are not getting optimum amount of rest, you are bound to be stressed all the time. This eventually leads chronic high blood pressure.
Every time you sleep late and wake up feeling groggy in the morning, your brain has suffered a tiny concussion. The human brain is equipped to deal with such small shocks but over a period of time it leads to brain damage.
Sleeping less and at odd hours affects your central nervous system. This makes your natural reflex system weak.
Reduced life expectancy is a cumulative effect of all these factors. If you do not have a healthy lifestyle, you will not live your full term of life.