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5 Ways Staying Up All Night Could be Harmful to Health

Take care of your health through one of them by getting enough sleep! Here are the negative impacts on your health if you don't get enough sleep.
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Do you know if sleep is a perfect time for the body to release the essential hormones, including growth hormone as well as repair important parts, but, what happens to the body when you didn’t get enough sleep?
 
1. Easy to Forget
According to the University of California, lack of sleep affects your ability to bring new information to the brain's “storage”. A series of tests were conducted to measure cortisol hormone production as well as oxygen level. Cortisol has an effect on long-term memory. When cortisol reaches a peak level, it is released in response to concentration. Keep in mind: it is essential to have enough rest to reduce a lack of focus and concentration.
 

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2. Depression
Lack of sleep makes depression even worse. Someone who lacks sleep, and sleeps less than 6 hours have greater levels of depression. Meanwhile, National Sleep Foundation recommends for the appropriate sleep duration remain 7 – 9 hours (adult). Some symptoms of depression are anxiety, often loss of temper, and looking unhealthy. It brings you to the horrible fact that depression causes heart attacks and cancer.
 
3. Gaining Weight
According to the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, staying up late makes someone eat more. In the other words, lack of sleep increases the desire to eat high-fat and high-calorie foods. Lisa Moskovitz, founder of Your New York Dietician says that eating in the middle of the night identically with warmth feels hard to resist for most people.
 

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4. Face Looks Older
Lack of sleep makes skin look older and duller and causes dark circles under the eye. According to a study from Stockholm, people who lack sleep look older than their actual age because their faces look tired. While lack of sleep, the body releases more cortisone hormones that break up skin collagen, which is why the face looks duller and older. If collagen-making works as it should, skin looks smooth, spongy, and full.
 
5. Diabetes
Lack of sleep decreases the body’s ability to digest glucose. While glucose is not digested, it may decrease the metabolic process. Lack of sleep is part of an unhealthy lifestyle. Someone may tend to eat more, smoke, or even drink alcohol without being accompanied by physical activities. People who lack sleep have higher BMI (body mass index) which caused diabetes.
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