Sleep is always one of the most important factors that people tend to overlook. Not only is sleep crucial for recovery (healing your muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments after a workout), but sleep deprivation leads to an imbalance in your system from a health perspective.
Sleep deprivation may lead to the following side effects :
- Increase in appetite => you experience so many lows due to a lack of sleep that your body starts craving foods that will give you a quick pick-me-up. Foods that do that are usually high sugar/calorie/processed foods.
- Headaches
- Loss of memory
- Increased stress and irritability
- A general increased risk of diseases such as diabetes and heart problems
- etc