Sleep less than 8 hours? You’re not just tired, you’re inviting these 5 serious diseases:

News India Live, Digital Desk: In today’s ‘hustle culture’ life, it takes less than 24 hours. Work pressure, scrolling on social media till late night and the same rush again the next morning… if anything is sacrificed the most, it is our sleep. “What will happen if we sleep a little less?” – Thinking this has become our habit. But do you know how much this ‘little less sleep’ is taking a toll on your body and mind?

Sleep is not just a way for the body to rest, it is an essential biological process that ‘resets’ and ‘repairs’ our body and mind. When we compromise with this, we are unknowingly inviting many serious health problems.

Know here the 5 big and dangerous disadvantages of getting less sleep:

1. Heart is becoming the target (risk of heart attack increases)
This is the most shocking and serious threat. When you get less sleep, levels of stress hormones (like cortisol) increase in your body. This increases your blood pressure and heart beat. If this happens for a long time, the risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke increases manifold. You are not giving your heart the rest it needs to stay healthy.

2. Mental fog and bad decisions (impact on mental health)
Have you ever felt that after less sleep you forget small things or are unable to concentrate on any work? Lack of sleep directly affects the performance of your brain. Your thinking power, concentration and decision making ability reduces. You feel emotionally weak and start getting irritable or angry over small things.

3. Weight gain (a recipe for obesity)
If you are not able to lose weight even after going to the gym and dieting, then perhaps your sleep is to blame. Taking less sleep increases the level of hunger-inducing hormone (ghrelin) in the body and reduces the level of hormone (leptin) that signals fullness. outcome? You feel hungry again and again, especially feel like eating sweet and unhealthy things, which increases obesity.

4. Weakening of the body’s shield (weak immunity)
Sleep works to strengthen our body’s immune system. While you sleep, your body makes proteins called ‘cytokines’ that fight infection. Taking less sleep reduces the production of these proteins, due to which you start falling ill very often. When the weather changes, the first person to catch cold is you.

5. Increased risk of diseases
Lack of sleep is not limited to heart diseases only, it can put you on the verge of many more serious diseases. Due to continuous lack of sleep, the risk of type-2 diabetes and some types of cancer also increases.

So, make your sleep a priority. This is not a luxury, but the biggest necessity for your healthy life. Make sure to get 7-8 hours of deep sleep every night to recharge your body and mind, because nothing is more important than your health.