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Your Physical Health</h1><p id="fe95">When your body doesn’t get the sleep it requires or your sleep pattern are a complete wreck. This takes a toll on your health. Both on the short as well as long term.</p><h2 id="5c48">Weight Gain</h2><p id="2b28">When you don’t get adequate sleep. It disrupts the level of Ghrelin and Leptin in your body. These hormones regulate energy metabolism.</p><p id="be1a">Ghrelin hormone tells your body when you need to eat and when to stop burning calories.</p><p id="cb51">During sleep, Ghrelin level decreases, because sleep requires less energy than when you’re awake. When you don’t get enough sleep. You end up with a higher level of Ghrelin in your body making you hungry all the time.</p><p id="c190">Leptin regulates the appetite, metabolism and calorie burning. It is the chemical that tells your body when you’re full and when it should create energy for the body.</p><p id="a3da">During sleep, Leptin level increases telling your brain it has plenty of energy for the time. When you don’t get enough sleep. Your leptin level decreases which make you feel like you don’t have energy in your body. This makes you want to eat more often to gain that energy.</p><h2 id="4e66">Weakened Immune System</h2><p id="8fe5">When you don’t get enough sleep. It suppresses your immune system.</p><p id="c3a3">A study showed that sleep deprivation decreases the amount of T-cells and increase the number of inflammatory cytokines. This could lead to a greater risk of developing a cold or flu.</p><h1 id="5a21">How Sleep Affects Your Mental Well Being</h1><p id="271d">If you have ever had to pull an allnighter to complete a project or for the finals. You might have noticed how tired you get the next da

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y.</p><p id="4ff4">Sleep deprivation can leave you feeling irritable and exhausted. While this is the short-term effect of sleep deprivation. Being sleep-deprived for a longer period of time might bring some serious issues to your mental health</p><h2 id="5bd9">Stress</h2><p id="a9ab">You might have noticed how easily you get annoyed the next day when you haven’t had a full sleep the night earlier.</p><p id="9a46">Poor sleep makes you stress about the smallest things. To the point where it could even make your regular daily chores seem frustrating. You also get extremely short-tempered.</p><h2 id="aee0">Depression</h2><p id="4f6c"><a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/sleep-and-mental-health#:~:text=Sleep%20deprivation%20can%20affect%20your%20mental%20health&text=Sleep%20and%20mental%20health%20are,insomnia%20or%20other%20sleep%20disorders.">About 65–90% of an adult patient with major depression and 90% of children experienced some kind of sleep problem</a>. Insomnia and other sleep problem increase the risk of developing depression.</p><p id="d663">When you are sleep deprived. Negative thoughts to linger around a lot more than usual. This makes you more anxious.</p><h1 id="9d1e">Takeaway</h1><p id="2a79">You might now know how much important your sleep cycle is. If you’re feeling a bit upset either physically or emotionally and you can’t put your finger into why you’re feeling this way. A quick fix to your sleeping pattern might just do the trick.</p><p id="4de5">If you have trouble falling asleep, You could follow these tips</p><ul><li>Increasing bright light exposure and decreasing blue light exposure</li><li>Not consuming caffeine late in the evening</li></ul></article></body>

How Your Sleep Pattern Takes A Toll On Your Body

This could be the reason why you are gaining weight

In a study carried out among 447 men and women, aged 30–54, who worked at least 25 hours a week outside of the home. It was found that 85% of the participants slept longer on their off days than on workdays.

Those with large differences in their sleep schedules on workdays and free days tended to have bad cholesterol and fasting insulin levels.

When you affect your Circadian rhythm. It regulates your sleep-wake pattern. It takes a toll on your body. Circadian rhythm is also known as the biological clock. It basically tells your body when it needs to sleep and when it need to wake.

Sleep is God. Go worship. ― Jim Butcher

Your body heals when you sleep. Whatever you learn in the day, you solidify it in your sleep.

With most of the countries in lockdown. There has been a drastic decrease in the amount of human interaction that people get. Humans are natured to crave human interaction. This has caused people to interact with social media.

With increased late-night conversation. Most people have completely disrupted their sleeping pattern. This impacts your health in a lot of ways.

How Sleep Affects Your Physical Health

When your body doesn’t get the sleep it requires or your sleep pattern are a complete wreck. This takes a toll on your health. Both on the short as well as long term.

Weight Gain

When you don’t get adequate sleep. It disrupts the level of Ghrelin and Leptin in your body. These hormones regulate energy metabolism.

Ghrelin hormone tells your body when you need to eat and when to stop burning calories.

During sleep, Ghrelin level decreases, because sleep requires less energy than when you’re awake. When you don’t get enough sleep. You end up with a higher level of Ghrelin in your body making you hungry all the time.

Leptin regulates the appetite, metabolism and calorie burning. It is the chemical that tells your body when you’re full and when it should create energy for the body.

During sleep, Leptin level increases telling your brain it has plenty of energy for the time. When you don’t get enough sleep. Your leptin level decreases which make you feel like you don’t have energy in your body. This makes you want to eat more often to gain that energy.

Weakened Immune System

When you don’t get enough sleep. It suppresses your immune system.

A study showed that sleep deprivation decreases the amount of T-cells and increase the number of inflammatory cytokines. This could lead to a greater risk of developing a cold or flu.

How Sleep Affects Your Mental Well Being

If you have ever had to pull an allnighter to complete a project or for the finals. You might have noticed how tired you get the next day.

Sleep deprivation can leave you feeling irritable and exhausted. While this is the short-term effect of sleep deprivation. Being sleep-deprived for a longer period of time might bring some serious issues to your mental health

Stress

You might have noticed how easily you get annoyed the next day when you haven’t had a full sleep the night earlier.

Poor sleep makes you stress about the smallest things. To the point where it could even make your regular daily chores seem frustrating. You also get extremely short-tempered.

Depression

About 65–90% of an adult patient with major depression and 90% of children experienced some kind of sleep problem. Insomnia and other sleep problem increase the risk of developing depression.

When you are sleep deprived. Negative thoughts to linger around a lot more than usual. This makes you more anxious.

Takeaway

You might now know how much important your sleep cycle is. If you’re feeling a bit upset either physically or emotionally and you can’t put your finger into why you’re feeling this way. A quick fix to your sleeping pattern might just do the trick.

If you have trouble falling asleep, You could follow these tips

Increasing bright light exposure and decreasing blue light exposure
Not consuming caffeine late in the evening