What Happens With Sleep Deprivation?

After a few sleepless nights, it doesn’t take long to cross over into a chronic sleep problem. Over time you don’t even realize how tired you are… you tend to run on empty. We become impaired and don’t even know it. There are subtle signs or red flags that clue you into when you’ve crossed over to the chronic sleep category. Be aware!

Signs You Have A chronic Sleep Problem.

• You're moody. This is a tough one because who isn’t moody from time to time? But this is different – now your fuse is really short. It’s the little things that are getting to you.

• You find yourself sick all more often. It seems like you just got over one illness and boom! you're sick again. Losing sleep weakens your immune system. A recent study found that people who get 5 hours of sleep or less are four times as likely to catch a cold than someone who slept 6 hours.

• Munchies! Do you find yourself eating more? Well, there's a reason for that. Short sleep cycles lower the level of leptin your body makes (the hormone that decreases your appetite!)

• How’s your libido? The last thing you want to think about let alone do when you crawl into bed is sex. The only thing you want to do is sleep.

• You can’t make a decision to save your life. When you're low on rest, the frontal cortex of your brain is impacted negatively, and there goes your decision-making process.

Sleep is incredibly essential for your health, vitality, and safety. We need it for all our bodily functions including repairing damaged skin cells to flushing out the toxins that build up in your brain.
Hopefully, listening to this episode of Graceful Healing helps to shed some light on tips and strategies to combat sleep deprivation.

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