The mystery of sleep still remains unsolved for mankind. Someone sleeps 8-10 hours a day, and someone goes without sleep for several days in a row, allocating time to visit the kingdom of Morpheus according to the residual principle. However, we all tend to explain our failures with sleep problems: the day didn’t work out - apparently, she got up on the wrong foot, got into an accident - it’s all to blame for lack of sleep, nerves are naughty - the reason is the nightmares that haunted the day before.

If a night's sleep is really so important to us, why do we pay so little attention to it? Maybe it's time to take up the rules of healthy sleep and classify night vigils as bad habits that spoil health and destroy families.?

Without sleep, a person becomes irritable and unbalanced, poorly remembers and reproduces information, is not able to make decisions quickly, and inadequately assesses what is happening..

In addition to the nervous system, the body as a whole also suffers.. Disturbed hormonal balance, antioxidant defense system. Without sleep, a person ages faster. In recent years, scientists have linked the development of obesity, diabetes, impotence, infertility, and even cancer to lack of sleep..

Inadequate sleep is especially bad during any illness.. In the absence of sufficient night rest, stress hormones are intensively produced, which, with prolonged exposure, inhibit the processes of recovery, healing and regeneration in tissues, reduce immunity.

The well-known case of American teenager Randy Gardner, who got into the Guinness Book of Records - he did not sleep for 264 hours! By the end of the experiment, the student practically could not speak and think, suffered from persecution mania and hallucinations.. His act was regarded as dangerous to life and health, after which such records were no longer registered..

How to sleep, what time to go to bed and when to get up? All this largely depends on lifestyle and habits..

Sometimes a person exhausts himself with night work, sleeps a few hours a week and believes that this is the norm..

The fact is that the compensatory capabilities of the body are huge. There are cases when, during the Great Patriotic War, people worked for many months with little or no sleep and rest, paying their debt to the Motherland..

However, the price of such a rhythm of life can be very high: sooner or later, overloads exhaust the body's reserves and lead to the development of serious diseases, sometimes fatal..

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