What Happens If You Sleep Late Everyday And 15 Side Effects Of Sleeping Late.

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What Happens If You Sleep Late Everday?

Sleeping late for 1-2 days is literally fine, but making it a regular habit is something that raises the risk of serious health issues. The most common symptoms of sleeping late are headache, dizziness, and body pains. The side effects of sleeping late or lack of sleep begin after 24 hours.

What Are The Causes For Lack Of Sleep?

The causes for lack of sleep are:

• Poor lifestyle
• Empty stomach
• Financial issues
• Insomnia
• Improper shelter
• Climatic conditions
• Stress
• Failures
• Anxiety
• Health issues
• Personal issues, etc.

What Happens If You Sleep Late But Get 8 Hours?

Yes, it fine to sleep late at night and get 8 hours of sleep. Because the aim of sleeping is to reduce body-mental stress and provide rest to the body. Though very few people prefer to sleep late at night till mid-day, it is nature's law to work in the day and rest at the night. It's your call what you choose and how you wish to be.

Every living creature has a sleeping cycle that regulates the stability of the body. The sleeping cycle helps the body to get a sufficient period of rest or sleep. Human beings need 6-8 hours of sleep regularly, if you miss few hours of sleep at a certain time it may be covered in the upcoming or successive days.

How Does Lack Of Sleep Affect You?

Lack of sleep alters your metabolic functions, mental stability, digestion, brain and nerve responses leading to different biological distress to the body. If you do not get sufficient time to sleep then your brain loses its calm and causes over-thinking, frustration, abnormal response for certain situations, and other effects.

15 Side Effects Of Sleeping Late:

Sleeping is similar to a break that your body requires from your daily work. Think if you are in a class and the teacher continues the class even during your break or leisure time, how it feels? angry and frustrated right. Similarly, the body shows its anger and frustration in the form of symptoms.

1. Headache:

Sleeping helps the brain and other organs to reduces the workload stress up to a certain extent. The body works for the whole day, out of 24 hours it should get about 6-8 hours of rest. If you fail to provide the sleeping hours to the brain, it starts facing distress leading to migraines and headaches.

Due to lack of there is an increase in the production of certain proteins in the body that leads to pain and these proteins decrease the body's ability for facing the pain and cause headaches.

2. Weight Gain:

Irregularity in sleep causes a change in the metabolic function and decreases utilization and absorption of the food consumed by you. Due to this, fat deposition in the body increases that leads to weight gains.

So, it recommended walking 10-15 minutes after having food and prior to going to bed.

3. Fatigue Or Tiredness:

Again, the main causes for symptoms of sleeping late or irregularity in sleep are related to metabolic functions and the brain. If the body faces inadequate sleep, it expresses its requirement of sleeping in the form of tiredness or fatigue. Tiredness is the stage that defines to provide rest and reduce workload. Thus, sleep correctly at the appropriate time.

4. Causes Pain In Joints, Back, And Neck:

The cause for pain in joints, back, and neck is inflammation of the body which in turn is caused due to lack of sleep. It is believed that lack of sleep can also worsen arthritis. 

It is obvious that the whole day of work, the muscles of the body would be tired and at this condition, if the body doesn't get proper sleep it results in pain and aches.

5. Weakens Your Immune System:

According to the studies, sleeping enhances the production of proteins called cytokinins through the immune system. The cytokinins in turn improve sleep and help the body to fight against inflammation and infections.

If the body gets inadequate sleep it results in decreased production of cytokinins that leads to weakening of the immune system.

6. Causes Mental Illness:

Abnormal sleep reduces the stability of the brain and decreases its functioning and responses. This instability in the brain triggers improper decision-making, deprives your calmness and thinking ability, and leads to mental illness.

7. Digestive Disorders:

Lack of sleep or sudden change in the timing of sleep in a routine life leads to digestive problems. As the body was adjusted to your previous timings of sleep, it needs some days to get adjust to changes in your timings. The common symptoms of digestion related constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, indigestion, etc. 

During sleep the energy requirement to the body is less compared to the daytime, hence the absorption and utilization of food are reduced during the night due to which the digestion process is majorly dependent on your sleeping time. So to avoid the complications sleep at the appropriate time and sleep for sufficient hours not more or less.

8. Breathing Issues:

During sleep, the breathing intensity is not the same as when you are awake. If you are awake late at night the chances of exposure to respiratory infections like cold and flu are high. The other causes of lack of sleep on your respiration or breathing are shortness of the breath, asthma, sleep apnea, etc.

9. Risk Of Developing Type 2 Diabetes:

Do you know how lack of sleep causes diabetes? What is the relation between sleep and diabetes? 
Lack of sleep alters the function of insulin and leads to insulin resistance in the body which means the body fails to utilize the glucose for energy requirements.

Thus, due to insulin resistance, the body cells fail to utilize insulin hormone for the conversion of glucose into energy, and hence the blood glucose level in the body increases leading to diabetes. 

10. Lowers Sex Drive:

As you know, lack of sleep causes mental illness, headaches, stress, tiredness, etc. so it also affects your sex life. When your mood is not well, you obviously won't be able to fulfill your sexual desires. The secretion of hormones responsible for love-making also reduces due to lack of sleep. It may also cause erectile dysfunction.

11. Increase Blood Pressure (Hypertension):

Yes, sleep and hypertension are interlinked. Sleep helps to control blood pressure. When a person is sleeping, their blood pressure is low when compared to their awaken state. Thus, lack of sleep refers that a person's blood pressure is not reduced and due to continuous waking leads to hypertension.

12. Decrease Alertness:

Due to lack of sleep, the pressure on your brain increases which in turn disturbs your decision-making and thinking abilities, calmness, and decrease your attention or alertness, or awareness to your surrounding.

Sometimes the decrease in alertness may be dangerous to you, as it may lead to accidents, injury, or other damages to you and society.

13. Increases Risk Of Heart Disorders:

Demand and supply is the major reason for most of the disorders. During the daytime, the requirement of oxygen is more due to more work and loss of energy but it is low at the night and while sleeping. Thus, if you are awake at night the pressure on the heart to pump the blood to all the body parts increases that may increase the risk of developing heart disorders like heart attack, heart failure, and also high blood pressure.

14. Causes Anxiousness After Wakeup:

With deprived sleep the emotions like fear and worry increase. It also leads to overthinking, stress, etc. These feelings lead to anxiety in a person. You might have noticed, a person, when woke after late-night sleep, would not be mentally stable, the tone and words while speaking would not be normal. So allow them to drink a glass of water and sit 5-10 minutes calmly then they might feel normal.

15. Results In Hallucinations:

Hallucinations are the causes of over-thinking, thus from reading all the above topics you might have some idea how it causes hallucinations right. Lack of sleep resists you from thinking or observing the things surrounding you due to which you stop analyzing the things and see what your mind shows you.

So start sleeping correctly and stop the symptoms.

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