Health reflects your sleeping pattern?

[Brad]

Do you think your sleep pattern affects your overall health?
What are some indications you've had verifies your answer?

[Matt]

yeah I feel crap if I don't get a lot of sleep. I get headaches if I haven't had enough sleep and just get grumpy as ****.

[scottish]

I don't, regardless of how I sleep I'm always well.

[_HeyyItsHannah_]

Of course it does aha. When you are asleep you do some of the most important tasks.

Your body repairs itself while you are asleep. Fights infections off, repairs tissue, etc. It's been shown that if you don't get enough sleep, you have a much higher risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, or stroke.

Your hormones get messed up if you don't sleep. When you are sleeping, hormones get released to promote health and growth. As your brain is doing the "clean out" that it needs to go on to the next day fully functional.

Sleep totally changes the way your body functions and responds. If you don't get enough sleep, your immune system isn't able to respond and fight correctly. This means you are sick more often.

If it's an ongoing sleep deficiency, just like if you are lacking any other huge necessary thing that you need to survive, your body goes in trauma-fight mode. Or survival mode. Everything goes haywire as your body is fighting for its life to be able to stay awake because you have stressed your body so much that it's not able to perform correctly.

Think about it. Your brain is working all day. It's working ALL the time. During sleep, it's still working, but it is able to "rest" a bit or think back on the day and go through a deep introspection. To analyze or process memories, information, that you need to remember. If you don't give your body the type of rest it needs, It overworks and goes haywire.

Sleep isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for survival.

Either way, you will end up sleeping anyway. Whether you are in an important event, whether you are 10k feet in the air. Whether you're just sat on the couch watching netflix. Your body and brain doesn't care. It does what it needs to in order for survival. It'll eventually shut down and you'll sleep anyway. It's your body's natural response to making sure you aren't laying in the ground next to Aunt Sally.



For myself, yeah. I can get 8, 10, 5, 19 hours of sleep and i'm still tired. My body is trying to hard to function. But then and again, I have many chronic illnesses. No matter how much sleep I get I am always tired. Some days are better than others, but it just doesn't matter. I'll feel really bum one day and the next I may feel a bit better. It's hard to say for me I guess haha .

[buttons]

heavy periods = loss of iron. poor diet = unable to replace iron = chronic fatigue

also i grind my teeth at night, more so due to anxiety, so i used to wake up with a headache 2-3 times a week before my mouthguard