Archive for May 19th, 2010
More Sleep More Healthy
You agree with me that it would be ideal that one day had more than 24 hours in order to sleep more. Many people are lifted very early in the morning to begin with their daily activities, returning to their home late and not sleep through the number of hours that are needed (the recommended are 7 hours a day).
And if it added that in some cases cutest sleep, we find ourselves in a complicated area. Sleep little not only generates fatigue and lack of energies but also to long-term can lead to serious problems in our health.
An investigation of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that even a minimum deprivation in the hours of dreams is associated with inflammation in our body, which adversely affects the cardiovascular health.
To check, the researchers made that a group of men and women sleep only two hours during a period of six weeks. As a result of the lack of sleep, noted that increased its concentration of cytokines, which are molecules of the immune system that normally secrete during the infection and inflammation. Read the rest of this entry »