In recent years, sudden death due to long-term lack of sleep is common news:
In 2015, 34 year old singer Yao Beina lost her life because she stayed up late and worked too hard, which led to breast cancer recurrence;
In June 2016, Jin Bo, a 34 year old deputy editor in chief of Tianya, died in the subway because of overwork and sudden illness;
The graduate of Sun Yat sen University, who just became a Baidu programmer for four months, ended his life in a dream because he worked 48 hours in a row.
The damage of staying up late for lack of sleep is like a time bomb lurking in people's bodies. You never know when it will break out.
Long term sleep deprivation equals' chronic suicide '
In fact, the vast majority of people who lack sleep can feel the harm it brings to the body: staying up late is slowly destroying people's health.
1. Accelerate skin aging
Enough sleep will give the skin a proper rest and repair the skin tissue. If the body does not get enough sleep, it will release more stress hormone cortisol, and excessive cortisol will break down the collagen in the skin, resulting in skin wax, eye edema, dark circles.
2. Memory and intelligence decline
Only enough sleep can promote the improvement of thinking and learning ability. Lack of sleep for a long time will cause the disorder of nerve center, induce neurasthenia and lead to the loss of concentration and memory, which will greatly affect the efficiency of study and work.
3. Weight gain
The lack of sleep, due to the imbalance of hormones in the body, the hunger will be more obvious, specifically for the increase of appetite, want to eat high calorie food, and thus accelerate the weight gain.
4. Prone to depression
Clinical experiments show that long-term lack of sleep is easy to lead to neurasthenia, depression and anxiety. With the long-term lack of sleep, it is easy to cause neurasthenia and depression, and patients with neurasthenia will aggravate the condition of sleep deficiency. In the past, it will inevitably induce neurasthenia, psychological depression, psychological anxiety and other problems.
It's very important to keep fit and improve sleep quality
1. Comfortable sleeping environment
Sleeping environment must be comfortable and quiet, no noise, clean, proper temperature, and ventilation before sleep, so as to make people calm down, feel comfortable physically and mentally, and greatly improve the quality of sleep.
2. Drink warm milk before going to bed
To improve sleep quality, drink warm milk before going to bed. Milk contains calcium and tryptophan, which can help to inhibit people's excitability, keep the body in a calm state and enter sleep quickly.
3. Soak feet before going to bed
Before going to bed with hot water feet can improve the quality of sleep, we can bubble for 30 minutes, bubble when you can massage the soles and calves, mainly the foot and toes. Foot water generally depends on personal conditions. However, people with diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and people with frozen feet should not soak in overheated water. At the same time, don't go to bed immediately after soaking your feet.
4. Form sleep biological clock
Sleeping at the same time every night helps the body form a good biological clock, and thus looks forward to sleep. Before going to bed, you can relax your body and mind by reading, listening to music and other ways. In the long run, it will form a good sleep habit and greatly improve the sleep quality.
The length and quality of sleep have a great impact on people's body. Only by keeping enough sleep can anyone have enough energy to improve the efficiency of study and work. Therefore, we must cultivate good sleep habits and keep enough sleep to help the health of the body.