The importance of sleep to health

Due to physiological, psychological and social factors, insomnia has long been commonplace in modern society, but this does not mean that insomnia is a normal phenomenon. A large number of research results reveal that insomnia, even lack of sleep, will damage health and reduce physical function. The University of Surrey in the United Kingdom published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, saying that if you sleep less than 6 hours every night for a week, the functions of 765,438+065,438+0 genes in the human body will change, including metabolism, inflammation, immunity and anti-stress.

Lack of sleep can also disturb the biological clock. Once the normal sleep pattern of human body is constantly destroyed, it will make people mentally unstable, hinder the supply of body functions, cause permanent damage to human organs and physiological tissues, and cause many diseases. On June 8, 2006, the headline article of Yishou Digest published a research conclusion: when sleep deprivation reaches a certain level, it will cause serious harm to the body, including dry skin, slow response, hearing loss, deafness and tinnitus, loss of appetite, obesity, and the incidence of gastric ulcer, heart disease, cold and other diseases will increase.