Long-term sacrifice of your own sleep is likely to cause very serious harm to the body. The best sleep time for the human body is eight hours, and long-term sleep is not enough for eight hours. The body will undergo a series of changes in terms of both organic and functional aspects. So what happens to your body when you sleep less than eight hours a day?


1. It is likely to cause the memory of the human body to decline. When the human body sleeps at night, it stores the knowledge learned during the day to synthesize new transmitters. If you sleep for less than eight hours in a long period of time, it is likely that the knowledge and skills that the human body has learned cannot be stored in the brain in time, resulting in a decline in the memory of the human body.


Some things in daily life can't be remembered very clearly, and often forget some basic things. For children, if the sleep time is less than eight hours per day, it is likely to cause a decline in the memory of the human body, resulting in a decline in academic performance.


2, it is likely to cause frequent colds and fever. In daily life, we can see that many people have to work overtime and night because of some corresponding work, and after working overtime for a period of time, the body immunity will decline, and they will often have a fever. A cold fever is hard to heal.


This is because when the human body is sleeping, the immune function will begin to repair, and if the long-term sleep is insufficient, the human body's immunity will be reduced, which may cause viruses and bacteria to invade the human body. Therefore, in order to enhance the body's ability to resist various viruses and bacteria, it is necessary not only to ensure adequate nutrition, but also to ensure adequate sleep.


3, it is likely to cause frequent nausea and vomiting. We can see that many people who like to work overtime and night are likely to cause damage to the gastrointestinal tract. On the one hand, it is often nausea and vomiting, and on the other hand, it may cause discomfort in the gastrointestinal tract. Many people get up especially in the morning, often feel nausea and vomiting, and after irritating substances, it is likely to cause symptoms of nausea.


The human body will eat a lot of food during the day to replenish energy in time, and only when sleeping, the gastrointestinal tract will begin to repair. If you sleep for less than eight hours for a long time, it is likely to cause damage to the gastrointestinal tract, which can cause frequent nausea and vomiting.


4. For children, sleeping less than eight hours a day is likely to affect the growth and development of children. The secretion of various hormones in the human body has its own regularity of time as with the circadian rhythm. There is also a saying in the folks that if a child lacks sleep, it is likely that the child will not grow taller.


This is because for children, only when they are sleeping, the body secretes growth hormone, and long-term lack of sleep is likely to cause insufficient growth hormone secretion in children. If a child sleeps less than eight hours a day, it will not only affect the child's growth and development, but also affect the child's brain development.


So how to do it is good for sleep?


Bathing your feet before going to bed is a very good habit. In daily life, many people do not sleep well because on the one hand, because the work pressure is too great, it is difficult to fall asleep when thinking about sleep, and some people are sleeping because of some organic diseases during sleep. Poor quality.


Therefore, in order to improve sleep, you can use hot water to soak your feet before going to bed. There are many important acupuncture points on the feet. Frequent use of hot water can not only promote blood circulation in the human foot, but also relieve stress. Helps improve sleep quality. Especially for the elderly, as the age increases, the demand for sleep is also less and less, so for this part of the population, often using hot water to soak the feet can improve the quality of sleep.






Keeping exercise for 30 minutes every day is good for improving sleep. The nature of many people's work today is mental work, and the probability of a physical worker's sleep problems is much lower than that of mental work.


Therefore, whether it is due to mental stress caused by sleep problems, or due to sleep problems caused by hardening of the arteries, you can use hot water to soak your feet every night to promote acupuncture communication throughout the body and promote blood circulation throughout the body.


Many people complain that they don't have time to go to the gym, so they can't keep exercising every day, but get up early every morning. If the place is close to the company, they can go to work every day by bicycle. Or you can get up and exercise for a while before you work. These free time can be used to ensure the amount of exercise every day.






It is guaranteed to lie in bed before 11pm every night, which is also good for sleep. The liver detoxification time of the human body is between 11:00 and 13:00. If you go to bed before 11:00 every day, it is likely to cause difficulty falling asleep, which may affect your whole night's sleep.


Sleeping for more than eleven o'clock in the long term is also likely to cause liver metabolism problems, resulting in liver damage. Therefore, in order to ensure good health, it is best to lie in bed every night before 11 o'clock. At this time, you can listen to some light music to regulate the brain's neurotransmitters and promote sleep.






I don't want to watch some horrible movies before going to bed every night, and playing mobile phones before going to bed can greatly affect the body's sleep. With the development of electronic devices, many people now brush their vibrato before going to bed, and brush microblogging, but in the process of watching these short videos, it is easy to cause the passage of time, which will cause the human body to sleep very late.


Looking at some horror movies before going to bed, it is likely to cause excessive excitatory neurotransmitters in the human brain. If you sleep, it may cause difficulty falling asleep on the one hand, and it may lead to increased dreams on the other hand. The quality of sleep can easily lead to mental exhaustion the next day