What are the dangers of too much sleep

People's lives are busy nowadays, and sleeping in after a busy day or during holidays is their favorite thing to do. However, many people may not realize that the longer we sleep, the better. Long periods of sleep can have an impact on our health. So, what are the dangers of too much sleep? Let’s take a closer look below.

1. Sleeping in will affect gastrointestinal function. Breakfast is usually eaten around 7 o'clock, when the food from dinner has been basically digested and the stomach and intestines will contract due to hunger. People who like to sleep in would rather be hungry than get up early to eat breakfast. Over time, they are prone to chronic gastritis, ulcers, etc., and are also prone to indigestion.

2. Sleeping in often can also affect their memory and reduce learning efficiency. Therefore, "getting up at dawn" is a good habit of life. Even on holidays, we should maintain a normal life routine, go to bed on time, and get up on time.

3. Sleeping in will disrupt your biological clock rhythm. The normal endocrine system and activities of various organs in the human body follow a certain diurnal pattern. This biological law regulates various human physiological activities, making people energetic during the day and sleep well at night. If you have a regular life during normal times but sleep in during the holidays, it will disrupt your body's biological clock rhythm and cause abnormalities in your endocrine hormones. If you do this for a long time, you will feel listless and depressed.

4. Sleeping in can affect the excitability of muscles. After a night's rest, muscles are more relaxed in the morning. Getting up and moving around immediately after waking up can enhance blood circulation in the muscles and increase blood supply, which is beneficial to the thickening of muscle fibers. People who stay in bed too long have their muscle tissue in a relaxed state for a long time, their muscle repair is poor, and metabolites are not eliminated in time. After getting up, they will feel sore and weak legs and discomfort in the waist.

5. Sleeping in for a long time on weekends can cause "weekend headaches." Sudden changes in sleep habits can have a severe impact on the hypothalamus in the brain, which is responsible for hormone balance, leading to hormone imbalance and causing headaches. Moreover, sleeping in will cause you to miss breakfast, which may cause eating disorders.

The above is an introduction to the dangers of excessive sleep. I hope it will help you understand it. Before seeing this, I believe many people would not have thought that sleeping too long would have an impact on our health. Therefore, in the future life, we must arrange our sleeping habits well to avoid causing other harm to our health.