To maintain a healthy brain and body, it’s important to get between seven to nine hours of sleep a night. But, according the the CDC, only one in three adults get that amount of sleep. Not getting enough sleep increases your risk for chronic health conditions including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and mood disorders. In addition to those health conditions, here are four things you’ll notice after one night of bad sleep.
Less Focus
During your sleep, your memories reactivate, connections form, and information gets transferred from short-term to long-term memory. When you don’t sleep well, it can affect the way you retain information, your concentration, and your memory. Bad sleep can affect your focus making it hard to care for someone, operate heavy machinery, and driving.
It comes as no surprise that we’re more irritable when we haven’t slept well the night before. Things that usually don’t bother you, may make you snap as you have less patience when you have lack of sleep.
When you haven’t gotten enough sleep, your body stops producing chemicals that signal to your immune system on how to react to infections and inflammations.
