Cosmetic Surgery & Beauty #72

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It’s official
WOMEN
NEED MORE SLEEP
THAN MEN
If you’re one of those women who hits the snooze button
while your boyfriend or husband is already up and at ‘em,
here’s some validation for you. Science now says that women
actually need more sleep than men to function properly.
A recent study from the National Institutes of Health in
the US examined whether or not gender plays a role in the
relationship between sleep and health.
Subjects were 210 healthy men and women without a
history of sleep disorders, and researchers rated both their
frequency of sleep and sleep-related symptoms.
Overall poor sleep quality, more frequent problems falling
asleep and longer periods to fall asleep were associated with
greater psychosocial distress, higher fasting insulin, fi brinogen
and infl ammatory biomarkers – but only for women.
In the study, men showed no increased risk of developing
the ailments that aff ect women when they are sleep deprived.
So, what does this all mean? It means women who get
more or less the same amount of sleep as men are at a higher
risk for long-term health problems such as cardiovascular
disease, Type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.
But why? The researchers believe the reason women are
more aff ected by poor sleep quality than men all comes down
to the way our brains function, specifi cally the way tryptophan
(an amino acid that helps us create key proteins), serotonin
(the “happy hormone”) and melatonin (the “sleep” hormone)
function diff erently in the male and female brains.
Ladies, now there’s a good excuse for sleeping in – do it
for your health!
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