Otherside of Midnight

According to studies by sleep researchers across the world, sleep deprivation is detrimental to health.

• Sleep rests and refreshes the brain while its deprivation impairs the mind and dulls the nervous system resulting in neurocognitive disorders. Going sleepless for over a day can affect performance to the same extent as blood alcohol level above the legal limit.
• Sleeplessness disturbs the body's biological rhythms, leaving a person with only 80 per cent of functioning capability.
• Lack of one night's sleep results in a 30 per cent drop in cognitive performance. Poor decision making, irritability, loss of temper and short-term memory loss follow.
• Sleep deficit has been directly linked with susceptibility to coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, even heart failure in extreme cases.
• Fatigue, the most common side-effect of Sleeplessness, often leads to body pains, especially in the lower back and head.
• A mounting sleep debt means a weakening immune system. The body becomes more prone to infections and viral fevers.
• Behavioural effects of sleep deficit include depression, anxiety and a low responsiveness to emergency situations.

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