A person is just beginning to understand what a dream is. But today science already knows what terrible consequences its deficiency threatens, how it prolongs youth and what a natural alarm clock is.
Lack of sleep kills creativity
Leaders should be more attentive to the sleep of their subordinates. And not even because lack of sleep can reduce the productivity of an employee, but because it completely negates his creativity. According to a 1999 study, sleep deprivation primarily affects the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for innovative, innovative ideas and self-control. Thus, after 24 hours without sleep, a person completely loses the ability to make adequate decisions. And, despite the fact that some employees boast that they have enough for a couple of hours to sleep, their experiments, in fact, only negatively affect the quality of their work, if it is associated with intellectual activity.
Sleep prolongs youth
Sleep and youth are inextricably linked. The more correctly a person sleeps, the slower his body will age. The secret is in melatonin, a hormone that is responsible for healthy sleep in our body. Scientists from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the SORAN conducted research that confirmed that melatonin prevents and cures diseases that develop with age. It also prevents breast and small bowel cancer. But his education is closely related to the dark, especially between 00:00 and 04:00 hours of the night. Therefore, staying awake at night is extremely harmful to the body.
Another useful hormone that is produced during sleep is growth hormone, which is also called the "elixir of youth." The largest amount of growth hormone is produced during sleep from 22:00 to 24:00. Growth hormone is known to enhance protein synthesis, help burn fat and repair body tissues.
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Men are more likely to fall asleep while driving
If you are not getting enough sleep, you should not count on the air conditioning and loud music to save you from falling asleep while driving, which can always become fatal. Somnology researcher Walsleben argues that you put yourself at the same risk as if you were drunk on the road: “The body is like a computer. If it is discharged, it can suddenly shut down at any minute. Oddly enough, this warning applies more to men, who, according to statistics, fall asleep twice as often as women. So, if your eyes start to stick together on the road, it is better to follow Walsleben's advice - stop in a safe place and take a nap.
Sleep helps to assimilate information
A great excuse for students who sleep in class - they simply process the data they received on the previous pair. Sleep after school has been shown to improve information absorption, research published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE in 2012 showed. The researchers attribute this to the fact that memory improves during sleep.
"Natural alarm clock" - hormone
Probably, each of us woke up at least once a few minutes before the alarm clock, especially when he knew in advance that it was simply necessary to wake up. This is the merit of the so-called "natural alarm clock", namely, adrenocorticotropic hormone. Scientists believe it has something to do with minimizing stress to the body during waking. But, what is most interesting, we can consciously control it. When studying the properties of adrenocorticotropic hormone, an experiment was carried out in which a number of subjects pre-programmed themselves to awaken at a certain time. In this case, they really woke up on their own when they needed. So if you need to set your inner alarm clock, just be aware of when you really need to get up.