British researchers have found that lack of sleep significantly affects the course of internal processes in the human body.. If a person sleeps less than 6 hours a day for a week, then this leads to a disruption in the activity of hundreds of genes, according to the online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net In a PNAS publication, the researchers pointed out that their findings could help explain how sleep deprivation contributes to poor health..

For example, the following diseases are directly related to poor quality sleep:.

•Heart diseases;

•Diabetes;

•Obesity;

•Impaired brain function.

However, it is still unknown exactly how the lack of enough sleep negatively affects human health..

Researchers from the University of Surrey took blood samples from 26 people who got 10 hours of sleep every night for a week and compared the results of laboratory tests with those of the same studies, but on the condition of daily sleep of no more than 6 hours..

More than 700 genes have been changed. Each of these sections of DNA has a specific program for protein production.. Thus, the more active the gene, the more protein it produces, which provokes significant shifts in body chemistry..

At the same time, the internal biological clock can also go wrong, because of this, some genes slow down their activity during the day, but this effect is compensated by sleep deprivation..

Professor Colin Smith, from the University of Surrey, commented on the study for the BBC: "

This is especially true in areas related to the immune system and how the body copes with damage and stress..

“Obviously, sleep is key to the recovery of the body and maintaining its functions at the proper level, the ability to withstand all types of damage.. If the body is unable to replenish or repair cells, it will lead to a number of degenerative diseases,” added Professor Smith..

He also emphasized the fact that many people in everyday life are faced with the problem of lack of sleep, which means that such changes can be massive..

Dr Akhilesh Reddy, a biological clock specialist at the University of Cambridge, called the study "

He drew attention to the fact that the main findings were related to the effects on inflammation and the immune system, which could help to trace the connection between these effects and health problems such as diabetes..

The results obtained may also be useful in studying the possibilities of an absolute refusal of sleep or the creation of a drug that can eliminate the consequences of its deprivation..

Dr Reddy explained: “We don’t know what exactly causes all these changes, but theoretically, if we could find a kind of switch for such processes, then people could do without sleep.. But it seems to me that sleep is fundamentally important for the regeneration of all cells..

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