There is a possibility that today's rampant coronavirus is indirectly associated with a lack of sleep, doctors say.
I have in instagram passed an online broadcast with the best sleep specialist in Russia, somnologist, head Sleep Medicine Center University clinic of Moscow State University Alexander Kalinkin. This is the most important thing.
Why sleep is so important
During sleep, the main biological principle of existence is violated - safety. While we sleep, we are helpless. And animals in the wild also sleep, despite the fact that there are plenty of predators around. But nature takes this risk. This means that sleep is needed to prevent an even greater danger than being eaten.
Sleep and immunity
We often do not pay enough attention to sleep.
There are a small number of people who really need little sleep. In the terminology of doctors, this is called short sleepers.
Over the past hundred years, on average, people have reduced their sleep by 2 hours - from 8 to 6 hours. Meanwhile, there is a direct link between sleep and immunity.
There is a chance that Today's rampant coronavirus is indirectly associated precisely with a lack of sleep - after all, immunity is falling.
It is especially difficult with young people. In 2018 there were global research, which was attended by more than 5,000 people from 331 settlements in Russia. And among the 20-35 year old cohort, 40.9 percent of people with excessive daytime sleepiness were found. There are many reasons for this, and above all - sleep deprivation (deprivation).
Dreams will tell about diseases
Sleep disturbances have always accompanied humanity. For example, in ancient Greece on the island of Kos, where Hippocrates was born, a person with an uncertain diagnosis before prescribing treatment, I must spend the night in a special room of about 12 sq. meters. And in the morning he told the priests what he dreamed, and on the basis of this a diagnosis was made.
There is currently no scientific instrument for assessing dreams. We cannot take and write down a "picture" and then analyze it. Everything is based solely on the words of the patient.
Meanwhile many diseases change the nature of dreams and can quite reliably indicate problems.
- For example, restless legs syndrome (a fairly common neurological disorder that requires treatment) causes dreams in which a person is constantly running.
- Sleep apnea syndrome, bronchial asthma - scenes of drowning, falling into an ice hole, into some kind of viscous substance.
That is, the disease often suggests a diagnosis in dreams.
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