Yaaawn - Ack!
Oct. 5th, 2003 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerA chronic lack of sleep may cause far more serious problems than a tendency to nod off the next day. People who do not get enough sleep on a regular basis may become less sensitive to insulin which, over time, can raise the risk of obesity high blood pressure diabetes In fact, Dr. Eve Van Cauter at the University of Chicago found that chronic sleep deprivation--6.5 hours or less of sleep a night--had the same effect on insulin resistance as aging.
Just like poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, chronic stress and aging, sleep loss is a risk factor (for type 2 diabetes).
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body loses its ability to respond to insulin, the body's key blood sugar-regulating hormone. This insulin resistance causes blood sugar levels to rise, which in turn can increase the risk for a number of serious medical complications including kidney damage, heart disease, blindness and lower limb amputations.
According to the study healthy adults who averaged 316 minutes of sleep a night--about 5.2 hours--over 8 consecutive nights secreted 50% more insulin than their more rested counterparts who averaged 477 minutes of sleep a night, or about 8 hours.
As a result, "short sleepers'' were 40% less sensitive to insulin.
The researchers suggest that sleep deprivation, which is becoming commonplace in industrialized countries, may play a role in the current epidemic of type 2 diabetes. A poll by the National Sleep Foundation found a steady decline in the number of hours Americans sleep each night. In 1975, the average American slept 7.5 hours, down from 9 hours in 1910. Today, adults sleep about 7 hours a night.
American Diabetes Association's Annual Meeting June 25, 2001 Philadelphia
Note that 6.5 hours of sleep a night is chronic sleep deprivation. Hands up thos people that regularly get less than that?
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Date: 2003-10-05 02:23 am (UTC)Unless you mean the weekends. I average about 4-5 hours a night on weeknights, and about 12 on weekends :P
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Date: 2003-10-05 02:26 am (UTC)I usually get about 6 hours per night.
I suddenly feel tired. And I have a pain. :-(
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Date: 2003-10-06 02:31 am (UTC)And doctors don't care about accurate diagnoses of the problem, only about makeshift solutions in capsule form :(
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Date: 2003-10-13 03:48 am (UTC)my problem is constantly waking up, which cuts my sleep time.
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Date: 2003-10-13 04:47 am (UTC)It would just cost a shit load of money.
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Date: 2003-10-13 08:30 am (UTC)I need to get a sleep study done on me but I can't work out how to find where I cn just walk in and book one. Everythign needs a referral. Pity my work's private med insurance probably won't cover it (pre-existign condition, you see)
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Date: 2003-10-13 10:05 am (UTC)They watch you not sleeping and figure out why?
The amount of tired I am when I wake up too early so far outweighs the amount of tired I am when I go to bed at 1am. My brain just refuses to turn off.
I also wake up several times a night and get back to sleep after a few minutes or as much as an hour.
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Date: 2003-10-14 01:14 am (UTC)I wake up from 2 to well, many, times each night, as you say, sometimes going straight back to sleep, sometimes being awake for hours.
It's not (usually) my brain running though, even when I wake very early and can't get back off. I find good nutrition helps a bit.
Having said all this, I went to bed just after midnight last night and woke when Sean's alarm went off at 7:15. That's equalling my all time record. I then went on to sleep in 5 minute chunks until I had to get up for work.
Mind you Saint always said that I was awake more than I realised - I suppose that I might wake up and go back to sleep and forget it.
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Date: 2003-10-14 02:08 am (UTC)Last night I slept almost reasonably, didn't take too long to get to sleep and I don't remember waking up that much until 8am.
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Date: 2003-10-14 05:47 am (UTC)I get semi-cramp in my calves, quads and hams a lot - if I stretch in the night, especially, it can be a fine line to tread in order not to get a nasty cramp. It doesn't seem so bad during the day for some reason (though it still happens). Maybe that's all it is.
I can't breathe if I lie on my back, I do know that. If I wake up from a hideous nightmare, I will invariably find that I'm on my back.
But, since I'm female and thin, nobody really thinks I'm a candidate for nightime breathing problems.
Huh?
Date: 2003-10-05 09:52 am (UTC)Katja
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Date: 2003-10-05 01:36 pm (UTC)On my days off (normally Sunday & Monday) though, I quite happily sleep til at least noon, sometimes later if I'm trying to catch up on previous missed sleep.
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Date: 2003-10-05 07:18 pm (UTC)weeknights generally between 7 and 8 in-bed hrs; hard to tell how many sleep-hrs that is since sometimes i fall asleep right away and sometimes i stay awake on purpose, thinking about things. weekends usually 8-12 hrs.
i did notice last week, when i was getting less sleep than usual, that after one night where i was up really late, my nose was runny all the next day. either the beginnings of a cold which didn't develop any more than that (possibly due to my use of neti-pot), or allergies. so sleep-deprivation seems to lower one's ability to fend against illness and/or allergies too.
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Date: 2003-10-06 11:06 am (UTC)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
6.5 hours?
Yeah. Maybe someday, I will sleep that long again.