Small Zheng, 26 years old, graduated from 985 University, work hard, career small success, typical of the contemporary good youth.
Only, every time I see him, he looks listless.
One time when we were chatting, he complained to us that he was dying. Every night, no matter tired or not, as long as lying in bed, must be dragged to 2 o'clock in order to fall asleep, which is his previous long-term late night overtime work left behind the sequelae.
Because of this reason, Zheng's eye sockets are getting deeper and deeper, the circles under the eyes are getting darker and darker, hair loss started early, the whole person looks like 40 years old. Moreover, two years of marriage, Xiao Zheng's wife has not been successful in getting pregnant, go to the hospital to check only to find that it is Xiao Zheng's problem - long-term late night, resulting in a serious decline in the quality of his sperm.
The doctor gave two choices - either change jobs or change lives.
When he said that, we all looked at each other in disbelief, because this did not just happen to Xiao Zheng.
Our colleagues in the company sleep less than six hours on average, and most programmers go to sleep after 1:00 p.m.
Every night at 10:00 p.m., nearby office buildings are still brightly lit;
Every time I send out my friends' circles in the middle of the night, a group of night owls will immediately come out of the crowd to leave their comments and likes;
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Staying up late is the norm for young people nowadays, and engineers and programmers have become synonymous with sudden death after staying up late.
Some time ago, Kaka sent a microblogging:
After returning home from a dinner party with friends at night, as usual, I played with my cell phone until 1:30 in the morning. The next day when I rolled over and was ready to get up, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my neck, and after two or three seconds, the back of my head hurt like a needle, and right after that, the pain turned into a warm current. A large amount of cold sweat began to break out on the body, and in a matter of seconds, the sweat dripped from the arms to the floor.
After calling 120, she felt no more strength in her body. Fortunately, the bruising in her brain did not impede the optic nerves and after resuscitation Kaka was back on her feet.
The tweet caused a huge ****storm online.
Why is that?
Because it has happened too many times and everyone is at risk of repeating it.
Surveys done by the WTO in 2012 showed that the percentage of people suffering from various types of sleep disorders in China was as high as 38.2 percent, far exceeding the global average of 27 percent.
2017 Amazon China Sleep Map even showed that more than 80% of Chinese people sleep less than 8 hours.
Nowadays, the pace of society is getting faster and faster, and the sleeping time of the Chinese people has turned into a sponge that can be squeezed at will, and we compress it again and again just to squeeze a little bit more good feeling, wealth and backbone out of it.
But the practice of exchanging night for work and life for the future really pays off.
Many of my friends around me are lamenting the fact that they used to study in college every night to cultivate immortality, and now only a few years after joining the workforce, stay up two or three hours at night, the next day is guaranteed to be weak, blurred vision, a cloudy brain.
A large part of the money earned every month is spent on health care, thermos cups soak goji berries, yam stewed pork ribs, something to eat a lot, the result is not as good as the daily square dance mom and dad.
The Chinese Association of Sleep Medicine has also released a survey: 90% of young people sudden death, cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction are related to staying up late. Every day we joke and exaggerate with "sudden death", "liver", "overwork" these words, in fact, is not far from us, the long-term vicious cycle caused by the evil consequences, but also eventually The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on your own.
Because the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in our country is currently in a sustained period of increase, and there is a clear trend of rejuvenation. Each year, the number of sudden cardiac deaths exceeds 540,000, which is equivalent to about one person per minute.
In addition to cardiovascular disease, long-term stay up late triggered by reduced immunity, liver function damage, vision loss and other problems are a serious threat to our health. The most obvious performance is to stay up all night people mostly dark yellow skin without elasticity, eyes, dull behavior, at the same time, easy to get fat.
Living in a huge pressure of the country, has been because of staying up too late and paid too many painful price.
A scientific research group has done such a test, the human life rules completely reversed, sleep during the day, night activities, after a period of time found that those related to biological rhythms of more than 1,000 genes expression is inhibited.
That is to say, in the long run, the body will change at a fundamental level. Whatever the consequences of such changes, a disrupted biological clock undoubtedly increases the risk of disease.
Another finding that is even more immediately obvious and expected is that staying up late can lead to an increase in bad habits like drinking and smoking. Even if your sleep schedule is only slightly delayed by 2 or 3 hours, and the total length of sleep remains the same, late nights make it easier to pick up these habits, which pose even more deadly health risks than staying up late itself.
And, in daily life, staying up late is also contagious, living together with family members, friends, classmates over time also developed similar late sleeping habits.
One man's death, the whole family's bad luck.
The media reported an incident earlier this year.
A family in Shanghai discovered after a medical checkup that almost everyone in the family was in trouble. Two parents were working late every night to start their own businesses, and one had high blood pressure and the other hyperthyroidism. The son, who is in his third year of high school, also suffers from insomnia and anxiety because he stays up late, partly because of the pressure of studying and partly because his parents often go to bed late.
Staying up late has become a regular occurrence and a common illness.
So what should we do to minimize staying up late?
Drink a glass of hot milk before going to bed. A mild hot drink helps to soothe the emotions and get to sleep quickly.
Make sure you get some exercise during the day. Exercise breaks down accumulated cortisol quickly, so you'll feel relaxed afterward.
Recreate appropriately and keep in touch with friends. Healthy relationships and healthy sleep habits go hand in hand.
Soak your feet before going to bed. This is the easiest and most practical way to de-stress and relax before you go to sleep.
Don't take the chance that you'll be able to make up for your late-night sins later, as the body's breakdown is often silent and unforeseen.
Don't wait until your life is gone, then regret, late!