5 compelling reasons to sleep less on weekends

Almost everyone loves sometimes for a long timesleep, especially on weekends. On the one hand, this is good, because our brain really needs sleep in order to streamline the information collected throughout the day. A couple of years ago, we also wrote that regular sleep is critical for muscles, immunity, intestines and many other body systems - these systems themselves can even influence when you and I will feel cravings for sleep. However, numerous studies have found that too much sleep is just as bad as not enough. Let's figure out right now how many hours a day a person needs to sleep and what can happen if you regularly sleep too long.

Scientists have a lot of evidence that long sleep is bad for the human body

Content

• 1 How many hours do you need to sleep
• 2 Why you can not sleep for a long time
  • 2.1 Headache due to long sleep
  • 2.2 Long sleep causes back pain
  • 2.3 Long sleep can worsen depression
  • 2.4 Long sleep provokes heart disease
  • 2.5 Long sleep increases the risk of death

How many hours do you need to sleep

According to WebMD, the amount of sleep you needhuman being is constantly changing throughout life. For example, newborn children sleep 20 hours a day - at this time they produce growth hormone, immunity is strengthened, and many other processes important for development take place. Gradually, a person’s sleep becomes shorter, so for children of 6-7 years old, 12 hours is enough, and in adolescence, only 9 hours can be allocated for sleep. An adult needs 8 hours of sleep - if a person experiences a lack of rest, health problems arise, such as an increase in the likelihood of a stroke and anxiety.

Newborn babies sleep 20 hours a day because they need it to develop.

Also for the required duration of sleep is stronglyaffects overall health. For example, during periods of high stress, the body may need to sleep longer than usual. The same is true for colds and other illnesses - in such situations, our body needs more energy than usual.

IMPORTANT: relatively recently, scientists have found that ifa person often sleeps during the day, he may have serious diseases. About why frequent daytime sleep can be an alarming sign, you can read in this article.

Why can't sleep for a long time

Healthy sleep is good.But sometimes people sleep for 12 or more hours, and the reasons for this are different. Most of the time, people just try to sleep in on the weekends because on weekdays they had to get up early for work. However, sometimes people sleep a lot due to health problems. For example, some men and women often want to sleep because they suffer from sleep apnea - holding your breath during sleep that interferes with proper rest.

People sleep for a long time for various reasons, but in any case, you should not lie in bed for more than 9 hours.

Whatever the reason for a long sleep, it is better not to lie in bed for more than 9 hours a day. Perhaps the points listed above will convince you to follow this advice.

Interesting fact: sometimes people fall asleep and wake up only after a few years. This phenomenon is called lethargic sleep, and you can read more about it in this material.

Headache due to long sleep

For many people, after too much sleep beginsheadache. Experts believe that this is due to the fact that after about 8 hours of rest, the hormone serotonin gives the body a signal that it has had enough sleep. If a person continues to sleep despite these signals, nerve cells stop getting the resources they need to stay active: water, food, and so on. As a result, when a person gets up after too much rest, their brain is in a state of energy deficit.

Back pain due to long sleep

Once upon a time, doctors said that with pain inback needs to go to bed and get a good rest. But those days have passed, and today experts know that sometimes rest can even increase pain - physical activity is very important for the human body, and in the absence of movement, different parts of the body can start to hurt. After all, it is not in vain that after waking up, we are all recommended to do a warm-up! People who lie on a bad mattress and pillow are especially at risk of suffering from back pain.

Long sleep can cause back pain

Long sleep can worsen depression

Typically, people with symptoms of depression complainfor insomnia. However, according to statistics, about 15% of people with depression, on the contrary, sleep too long - more than 9 hours a day. Experts recommend fighting this, because excessive sleep in some cases only exacerbates depression. The fact is that in order to recover, people need to maintain a healthy sleep time, and this is exactly the above-recommended 8 hours a day.

Long sleep provokes heart disease

Scientists once conducted a study involving 72000 women. As part of their scientific work, they compared their daily routine with their health status and found that participants sleeping from 9 to 11 hours were 38% more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease than others. How long sleep is so bad for the heart, scientists still do not know. However, it can be assumed that this is due to a long stay in a stationary state.

Too much sleep can lead to heart disease

Long sleep increases the risk of death

Numerous studies have shown that sleepersmore than 9 hours a day, people risk dying earlier than those who sleep 7-8 hours. The specific reason for this phenomenon has not been established, but there is a suggestion similar to the truth. Above, we listed that excessive sleep harms the brain, back, heart, and can also aggravate depression. Perhaps it is precisely because of the combination of these consequences that people live less?

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