Stress Affects Sleep

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As we know, healthy sleep is means obtaining adequate amount of quality sleep. It should be a complete process of sleep cycles throughout the night.

Getting healthy sleep is important as getting balanced diet and regular exercise. It can't be denied that sleep deprivation affects your physical and emotional health. That's the core reason to make healthy sleep a main component to living a healthy lifestyle.

Stress can cause our muscles to tense, prevent us from being in relaxed state. Therefore, stress affects our sleep.

Stress hormone, Cortisol is secreted into the bloodstream during our body's response to stress. When we feeling stressed, the higher and prolonged cortisol levels in the bloodstream could cause negative effects such as imbalance of blood sugar (hyperglycemia), higher blood pressure, suppressed thyroid function, and decreased in bone density and muscle tissue as well as insomnia.

It is always recommended to manage our stress well and have better quality of sleep.

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