Sleep Deprivation And What It Could Do To You

Getting adequate good night sleep is one of the most important thing you need to have in life. Nothing that you do in life such as exercise, taking balance nutrition diet or even popping multivitamin pills would help if you don't get to achieve adequate quality sleep in life.

Forget about what Donald Trump says when he mentioned that sleep is a waste of time. Apparently successful people like him have too much going chasing after big bucks and it seems to these folks life is less important than wealth. As for the rest of us, getting adequate sleep is critical to our overall wellbeing. Michael Jackson died due to the powerful and dangerous sedative combination of drugs that he took to help cope with stress and sleeping disorder.

Some people pop pills such Ecstasy or take caffeine laden drinks such as thick coffee to race and beat time. You can't have your ways to deal with lack of sleep by relying on drugs. Many life are at risks as a result of such irresponsible actions on the part of coach and cab drivers, truck drivers and other critical job positions that requires mental focus and alertness.

You will have to work twice as hard and earn twice as much if you fall ill due to lack of sleep. Surprise and you think that is nonsense? Unless you are living under the rock, you would probably knows that medical expenses in some countries could be quite terribly expensive. Unless you kick the bucket quickly or you recover quickly or you have comprehensive health insurance coverage, prolong medical treatments can drain and empty you off all your life savings.

Millions of people around the world suffers from sleeping disorder. You may or may not feel the immediate side effects of lack of sleep. Some people could go on for days or even weeks or months sleeping on average 5 hours or left without experiencing or showing symptoms associated with lack of sleep. Some people are less tolerant to lack of sleep and show signs such as fatigue, inability to control emotion or temper, inability to focus, decreased work productivity when they don't sleep well for just couple of days.

Those who has greater tolerance for lack of sleep potentially risk long term health problems if they don't address sleep disorder at the soonest opportunity. Sleep depth accumulates and once it reach the threshold, triggers uncontrolled avalanche of health problems such as hormone imbalance, high blood pressure, depression, heart attack and to certain extreme cases, sudden death.

Sleep deprivation is equally as dangerous as alcohol abuse. Sleep deprivation increase stress and this in turn causes hormone imbalance which in turn further aggravate your sleep disorder problem.

So do yourself a favor, don't take sleep deprivation lightly and assume everything will be fine. You are just kidding yourself because somewhere down the road, your body will give away and leave you beyond repair.