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Side effects of Sleep deprivation and duration of sleep

In today's modern electronic era people have become a habit of awake for a long time at night. Now many people spend night time use of mobile phones, internet, computers, or television. In the name of modernism the domestic programs such as marriage ceremonies and celebrations are also held in the night that is not a healthy practice. Changes of this modern era system have made negative impact on daily health and sleeping routine besides everyday life. According to a research, today the human being is taking less sleep than its ancestors, which is not a positive habit.

Importance of sleep in our lives:

According to a modern study, human body may survive without eating and drinking for more than a week, but the human body cannot survive a week without sleep. This proved that sleep is essential as eating, drinking and breathing is important for human life. Because when we are sleeping, our whole body and mind are in a state of relaxation, during this our body and brain get relief and the dead cells get repaired, which is essential for health. The whole system of brain is like a factory in which all the cells are engaged in their own specific tasks, as well as during the sleep brain cells perform their specific tasks like clean the ways of brain signals and also clear the non-essential and harmful materials from the brain.

How much sleep duration should be?

Sleep duration should be different in different parts of the age, which is an important requirement. Sleep duration in children is longer than a young person. That is why taking a better sleep should be aware of sleep duration and sleep with the same routine.

Sleep duration table according to different ages:

Why is it necessary to take full sleep in terms of age?

According to the normal age, a young man should take a full 18-hour sleep, many of which have been proven. By taking full sleep our strength increases in defense, increases awareness and memory is better. We can perform well in daily activities. The level of grease in our body remains permanent. It is a feeling of refreshment in the morning after taking full sleep throughout the night. Sleep is also helpful in controlling various diseases in our body, such as diabetes and mental stresses. It is very important to take full sleep for patients with depression. If we want to take full benefits regularly, we should take full sleep. 




Where the benefits of modern age are also the side effects of it as well, there are people taking sleep using modern sleeping pills today, which is a non-physical process and is harmful for health. Modern research is emphasizing that if a person wants to be physically and mentally cured, he should take a healthy sleep of 7 to 8 hours naturally. Usually people have started thinking that taking a few hours of sleep can keep the body healthy, and they also ignore the tiredness and drowsiness during all the day, that is very harmful. They do not know that due to this, dangerous epidemic diseases are causing in the body.

Effects of sleep deprivation on mind:

There are many disadvantages of sleep deprivation which should not be ignored in today’s busiest time. Due to lack of sleep, many diseases occur in human body like psychological and physical diseases and muscles fatigue, get hyper very soon and cannot be paid attention properly. If shortage of sleep becomes a part of permanent routine, it can have a major impact on the cells of brain that can intensify stress to the brain tumor, because the number of cells in an adult person’s mind remains identical to all ages but when people do not take sleep proper then the number of cells starts to decrease and the brain’s ability seems to be less.

Proper sleep prevents from physical and mental diseases:

By taking an essential sleep according to age anyone can avoid mental and physical weaknesses. The people in many countries including in Pakistan do not give importance to sleep now. The main reason is the modern technological life style. People do not take full sleep and move to the valley of death. Some people also think that they can improve their deficiency of sleep in weekends, which is a wrong idea, because sleep is only when it is taken at fixed time.

Four sleeping tips:

1.   Avoid eating food that causes lack of sleep:

Before sleeping should avoid such foods that cause lack of sleep like tea, chocolate, soft drinks and coffee etc., because such foods remove the tiredness from the body and increases the physical strength.

2.   Do not do any physical activity before sleeping:

The temperature of the human body is high in the morning and decreases as the day passes, which indicates that now humans need to sleep. But at this time when we work such a difficult physical work which increases the temperature of our body, it causes obstacles to sleep which is not suitable for health.

3.   Sleep at night is a natural process:

Sleeping in the night and working on daytime is a natural process which is very beneficial for the human body. But when we think that we should work till late night and we will be active that is wrong idea. So for the proper fitness of the body we should take sleep at night and work on daytime.

4.   Drink water before sleep:

If the human body is in thirst before sleeping, the whole body will remain unhealthy and fatigue throughout the body which will cause the sleep deprivation. Therefore it is important to drink water in proper quantity before sleeping so that body is not in thirst and should also be careful not to drink excessive water that causes more urine.