As the saying goes: "spring sleeps, autumn sleeps, summer sleeps, winter March sleeps.". "The weather is getting warmer. For office workers, they should be energetic, but why do they feel tired at work and always want to sleep? What's the matter with spring sleepiness?
Although spring poverty is just a folk saying, there is no corresponding professional term in medicine, but from the perspective of human body, it can indeed find a scientific explanation.
Why is there spring sleepiness?
First of all, similar to the rhythm of a clock, the human body also has an invisible 'biological clock', which is a 24-hour circadian rhythm from day to night, which is affected by light and darkness, reminding the body when to go to bed and when to get up.
And we also have a watchmaker in our body, which is a hormone that can regulate sleep, called sleep hormone, also known as melatonin.
Because of the principle of the earth's revolution, after the vernal equinox, the days get longer and the nights get shorter. Melatonin, the watchmaker, sets the biological clock a little faster every day in spring to keep up with the changing pace of the seasons.
However, when the winter and spring seasons change, the natural environment changes greatly, many people's physical adaptation is relatively slow, and they are still in the inertia of staying indoors for a long time in winter, with less exercise and less natural light contact, which will affect the normal secretion of melatonin and slow down the pace of the biological clock.
In this way, the time inside and outside the body will be inconsistent, and the quality of sleep may be reduced. If the sleep shortage accumulates to a certain extent, the 'alarm clock' of the biological clock will be disabled, and even the 'automatic power off and charging' will be automatically turned off at other times. It will become a common occurrence that people can't wake up in the morning and feel depressed during the day, which is what we often call 'spring sleepiness'.
Therefore, to sum up, 'spring sleepiness' is likely to be the result of asymmetric rhythm of natural changes and body changes.
In this beautiful spring season, you are so sleepy that you can't open your eyes. When you are typing and holding meetings, you can't help nodding, and you even want to fall asleep when you stand up.
How to alleviate 'spring poverty'?
In order to deal with this state of lethargy, some people may want to buy melatonin health products to take, improve sleep conditions.
We do not recommend this, because the safety and effectiveness of health care products have not been fully understood, and buying them casually will have adverse effects on the body. If you want to eat melatonin health care products, please be sure to ask your doctor, do not blindly buy.
Here, we offer you a few scientific ways to alleviate the "spring sleepiness":
How to prevent spring sleepiness
1. Adjusting the biological clock
Some people want to ease the spring sleepiness, they will sleep more every day, want to relieve this way, but this is not feasible. Sometimes more sleep may not relieve the spring sleepiness. At ordinary times, we only need to sleep about 8 hours a day. We just need to develop a biological clock, go to bed at about 10 o'clock every night, and then sleep for 8 hours, then we won't have spring sleepiness.
2. Proper exercise
When there is spring sleepiness, it is likely that you do not exercise, because in winter, the weather is cold, less exercise, which will make the blood circulation blocked, if the blood supply to the brain is insufficient, it is easy to have sleepiness. So every day to adhere to the appropriate exercise, can promote blood circulation, let the brain become excited, will not want to make sleepy.
3. Massage the head
Spring sleepiness is caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain, so we can massage our brain every day to help the brain promote blood circulation and absorb enough blood. And massage the head can also alleviate brain fatigue, play a role in alleviating spring sleepiness. It is very suitable for white-collar workers to solve the problem of sleepiness at work.
4. Take a nap
If you want to relieve spring sleepiness, you must take a nap. Because when we take a nap, we can relieve the fatigue in the morning, so that we can have enough energy to work in the afternoon, so that we will not have the spring sleepiness caused by brain fatigue. But the nap should not be too long. If the nap lasts more than half an hour, it will make us sleepier and sleepier. It's better to keep it at about 20 minutes.