Sleep: Is Too Much of a Good Thing Bad?

Sleep: Is Too Much of a Good Thing Bad?

 

 

There is nothing better than coming home after a long hard days work and crawling in to your comfy bed, sleeping the night away. Although sleep is essential to your health, oversleeping is associated with other health risks including heart disease and diabetes. According to WebMD Researchers are careful to note that two other factors are associated with oversleeping, depression and low socioeconomic status.

How do you know when too much is too much?

Well, you have to consider the person, their age, their lifestyle, activity level and medial illnesses. On an average researchers believe that you have to sleep anywhere from 7-9 hours a night. Anyone who sleeps less than 5 or more than 9 on a regular basis are shown to be 50% more likely to suffer from diabetes. Also, 15% of people who suffer from depression are more likely to sleep more than 9 hours a night.

People who oversleep often times wake up with bad headaches, this is one of the causes that oversleeping has on the neurotransmitters of the brain. Even people who change their sleeping patterns dramatically cans suffer from such headaches. An example of this would be Monday through Friday you wake up at the same time and Saturday you decided to sleep in. Many people complain that they have less energy, feel sluggish, and are overall find themselves in a worse mood when they change their sleeping patterns dramatically or oversleep.

According to HealthGuidance.org, “Studies conducted on people have shown that those that oversleep have a 38% increased chance of suffering from coronary heart disease. Even though it is not fully understood why yet, there is concern that people who sleep over 9 hours every night have a higher death rate than those that sleep for 7-8 hours.”

So the next time you decide you want to sleep 12 hours that night, consider the following ideas and set your alarm at a maximum of 9 hours!

 

 

source :http://dmes.com