Posts Tagged ‘Sleep deprivation’

How Sleep Deprivation Can Lead to Health Problems

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

From the Desk of Dr. Alan Weidner
www.massage-chair-relief.com

The recession, plenty of problems in your personal life, seemingly endless battles you need to fight each day at work, uncertainty, the sudden nature of problems that crop up unexpectedly will all add up to cause extremely high levels of stress on our minds and bodies. If you can’t sleep at all or even if you have disturbed incidences of sleep almost every night, it’s not looking good. The price you pay for such a prevailing condition can be quite high. As nights pass by without sleep, your body takes a tremendous blow, your health gets severely affected, it isn’t safe and it could turn out to be really pricey. The worst part is that sleep deprivation or Insomnia is not painful leading too many people leaving these conditions unattended.

Slow responses and lack of alertness: According to webmd.com, lack of sleep or sleep deprivation leads to a decreasing level of performance at work and tends to pull down your alertness levels during the normal functioning of the day by a whopping 32%. Talking about work, sleep deprivation is also touted as the culprit at many occupational hazards leading to fatal accidents at work place.

Radiant health and a positive, up-beat life is your right. Relationships can be ruined, life can turn ugly and seemingly nothing could stop you from self-destruction if you don’t do something about it today.

Link: EZine Articles
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Sleep-Deprivation-Can-Lead-to-Health-Problems&id=5538761

Sleep Deprivation Can Kill You Faster than Starvation

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Try as you might, it is impossible to go without sleep, sooner or later you’re bound to fall asleep. There have been various experiments conducted on lab rats, leading to a conclusion: complete sleep deprivation leads to death even faster than starvation. Sleeplessness can destroy the body, and after a certain point it’s virtually impossible to prevent sleep.

If you’re sleep deprived, you first become irritable, then forgetful. Without sleep it gets harder and harder to concentrate, and the simplest task becomes impossible to complete, not to mention something more complex, like driving a car. Extended periods of sleep deprivation also lead to reduced immune system response, fluctuating blood pressure and changes in metabolism.

However, sleep can’t really be utterly understood; there’s no obvious chemical change, such as the buildup of carbon dioxide when we don’t breathe, to explain its effects. The body simply shuts down when we sleep, while the brain keeps going.

You can last a while without food, but complete sleep deprivation will kill you without a doubt. You need sleep to function and survive, and without it the brain cannot do anything. Even though sometimes we wish the day had more hours, and we ignore sleep for other “more important” activities, sleep deprivation will only make everything worse.

Link: EZine Articles
http://ezinearticles.com/?Sleep-Deprivation-Can-Kill-You-Faster-Than-Starvation&id=4679476

Dr. Alan Weidner
www.massage-chair-relief.com