In today's life, many people often have to stay up late to work, play games, practice movies, but forget the harmful effects of staying up too late.

After a day of work, study and activity, our body will be exhausted, sleep will help the body rest to restore health. We spend all-day activity, and this article will help you know how the effects of staying up late will affect our body:

 

1. Memory loss

According to a study, people who often stay up late will have a five times higher rate of memory loss than the average person. The reason is that sleep time is an excellent time to help the brain rest and remember all the activities that take place during the day. Therefore, if you sleep late often or stay up late until morning for a long time, the brain will not rest and cause memory loss.

 

2. Affects the immune system

Sleep time is when the body produces hormones necessary for maintaining the body's immunity. So if you sleep late or stay up until morning, your body will not have these hormones, making the body's resistance decrease. Besides, staying up late also makes the body tired, lacks energy, and has a weakened immune system. As a result, it is easier for you to get diseases such as colds, respiratory infections higher than people who get enough sleep.

 

3. Fatigue, headache, not concentrating

The brain is the place to receive and process thousands of information every day. So after a long day of studying, working, sleeping will help the brain rest and rearrange all information. But if you stay up late, the brain still has to continue to work during that time, leading to excessive stress in the brain that reduces concentration and increases feelings of fatigue.

Besides, if you stay up late regularly, you will quickly fall into sleep deprivation leading to severe headaches. Experts also stress that a lack of sleep can lead to two common headaches, migraines and tension headaches.

 

4. Increase risk of diabetes

According to many studies, people who sleep less than 5 hours a day are twice as likely to develop diabetes as those who sleep 7-8 hours. This symptom happened because staying up late will disturb the biological clock, which regulates the body's natural sleep-wake cycle, causing an imbalance in glucose.

 

5. Staying up late reduces eyesight


At night, the eyes need to rest after a whole day of work. When we stay up at night, it means that the eyes must continue to work, plus in poor light conditions, vision will gradually decrease significantly. Suppose you stay up late and work with electronic devices such as computer screens. In that case, phones require eyes to adjust and secrete lubricating fluids. The more you look at it for a long time and the light conditions are not adequate, the more lubricating fluid the eyes have to secrete, which is also the cause of dry and tired eyes.

In addition, the light of a computer or phone screen is called blue light. When we work at night, the higher the concentration level, the more your eyes will focus on this amount of light. The nature of blue light is the light with the highest energy of all visible light. As a result, they can penetrate the natural light filtering layers of the eyeball to the fundus and cause retinal damage. Blue light damage is permanent and will accumulate over time, eventually causing eye diseases, especially macular degeneration, a leading cause of eye disease. Blind. Today, macular degeneration is gradually rejuvenating, and many research results show that blue light is a factor that promotes early disease development.

 

6. Endocrine disorders

During sleep, the body secretes a balanced hormone to help the body avoid falling into a state of endocrine disturbance. However, hormones are deficient or imbalanced in people who often stay up late or don't get enough sleep. In women, those who often stay up late cause menstrual disorders, increasing uterine fibroids' risk.

 

7. Affects the digestive system

The stomach lining cells can regenerate and repair themselves at night during sleep. Staying up late makes these cells not rest, leading to weakness. Moreover, staying up late causes gastric juice to secrete more, leading to stomach ulcers if this condition persists or worsens the disease if it has been infected before. In addition, if staying awake to work stressfully or watching stimulating programs, nervousness worsens the gastroduodenal condition.

 

8. Liver failure

According to the biological clock, when we sleep, from about 11 pm to 1 am, the liver performs the task of detoxification, removing excess substances from the body, and making full use of the body's nutrients. Food has been loaded during the day to help the body's metabolism be better. This task is only practical when the body is in a state of deep sleep. Therefore, if you stay up late regularly, the liver cannot eliminate toxins. They remain in the blood for a long time, causing liver damage and susceptibility to diseases like hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, and cancers.

 

9. Skin becomes dull, prone to acne

At night, the skin is regenerated, so staying up late will affect this regeneration and regulation activity. Staying up late also causes dry skin because the skin has a moisture imbalance. Over time staying up late will damage the skin and age quickly. Besides, when staying up late, the hormones in the body will be somewhat disturbed and secrete more cortisol, making the skin greasy, causing clogged pores, and producing acne.

 

10. More prone to depression

Many studies show that night owls who sleep late are more likely to suffer from depression than people who get enough sleep. The reason is that staying up late disturbs the biological clock, which is also one of the causes of a depressed psychological state, anxiety disorders, and depression.

Conclusion

In general, almost everyone knows that staying up late is harmful. However, with today's modern lifestyle, the number of night owls is increasing rapidly and shows no sign of stopping.

To minimize the detrimental effects of staying up late, arrange work, study to sleep earlier, practice the habit of going to bed on time and limit the use of mobile devices, computers.