Can’t Sleep? Turn On Some Tunes! - I Spy Physiology Blog

Can’t Sleep? Turn On Some Tunes! - I Spy Physiology Blog

Credit: iStock/Motortion You have probably struggled with falling asleep at some point in your life. When you don’t sleep well, you may feel less happy or experience reduced cognitive speed, otherwise known as “brain fog.” Chronic sleep deficiency increases the risk for depression, high blood pressure and the development of various diseases. Having trouble falling asleep or poor sleep quality may stem from feelings of stress and anxiety, externa…

Sleeping is so vital that, if you are awake for more than 70 hours in a row, you can die, says Victor Manuel Rodríguez Molina, academic of the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of UNAM. “If there is total sleep deprivation in that period, the whole organism is in a supreme stress. There is an excessive discharge of its adrenal systems, cortisol. And the function of the heart, kidney, lungs, which can cause death,” says this spe…