| When it comes to sleep, like anything else in life, | | | | other health issues that make exercise more |
| has been reported that moderation is key for | | | | difficult. |
| good health and long life. Sleeping too little causes | | | | Headaches and Back Pain and other minor illnesses |
| health problems, but did you know that sleeping | | | | cause people to sleep more than usual. But did |
| too much can cause the same or more medicals | | | | you know that over sleeping causes headaches? |
| problems such as diabetes and heart disease and | | | | When you over sleep your brain produces more |
| is linked to weight gain, Parkinson's and | | | | serotonin a hormone that affects our |
| depression? Are you sleeping too much? | | | | neurotransmitters causing a headache in the |
| Researchers do point out that the amount of | | | | morning. Too much time in bed can cause |
| sleep varies with age and that people that are | | | | stiffness resulting in back pain. It is not only |
| stressed or sick will tend to sleep more. Other | | | | important for you to have the right mattress for |
| factors that cause over sleeping are those that | | | | your back you also need to keep a regular |
| have less access to health care which may have | | | | exercise program to keep the weight off and not |
| undiagnosed mental and physical illnesses such as | | | | lay down longer than seven to eight hours. The |
| heart disease and depression. People that abuse | | | | longer you stay in bed, the longer it will take your |
| alcohol and drugs are inclined to over sleep. Then | | | | back to adjust to your redistributed weight and |
| there are those that just love to sleep or at least | | | | stiffness upon standing. |
| like to take a nap in the afternoon. | | | | Mental Illness is associated with irregular sleeping |
| The National Sleep Foundation recommends that | | | | habits. Depression can worsen when you over |
| adults should get around seven to nine hours of | | | | sleep and it is important to maintain regular |
| sleep a night. Some research has found that long | | | | sleeping habits to recover. SAD or seasonal |
| sleep durations of nine hours or more are | | | | affective disorder is a condition were your brain |
| associated with illness and death. What medical | | | | produces too much melatonin because there isn't |
| problems cause people to sleep too much? | | | | enough day light hours which causes people to |
| Hypersomnia is a medical disorder that causes | | | | sleep longer and take naps in the afternoon. SAD |
| people to experience extreme sleepiness during | | | | triggers feelings of despair, misery, guilt, |
| the day which is not relieved by napping. People | | | | hopelessness or anxiety. You may find normal |
| with hypersomnia crave sleep and can suffer | | | | tasks become frustratingly difficult, you may cry |
| from anxiety, low energy and lack of | | | | for no apparent reason or be unable to |
| concentration. They not only sleep at various | | | | concentrate. Exercise, taking Vitamin D and light |
| times during the day, they also sleep for long | | | | therapy help those that suffer from SAD. |
| periods during the night. Causes of hypersomnia | | | | Cardiovascular diseases are 38% more likely to |
| are brain damage, clinical depression, uremia, | | | | happen for those that sleep nine to 11 hours a |
| obesity and fibromyalgia. Symptoms are like those | | | | night according to a report by The Nurses' Health |
| with other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, | | | | Study involving nearly 72,000 women than those |
| sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome (RLS). | | | | that slept seven to eight hours. With ten hours' |
| Some people get hypersomnia as a result of drug | | | | sleep, the death rate from a heart attack or |
| or alcohol abuse, drug or alcohol withdrawal or as | | | | stroke for women over 70 increased 167%, while |
| a drug side effect as with some psychotropics | | | | for men aged 50 to 59, it increased 286%. |
| for depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder. | | | | Researchers have not yet identified a reason for |
| Kleine-Levin Syndrome (aka Sleeping Beauty | | | | the connection between oversleeping and heart |
| Sickness) is the most recognized form of | | | | disease as the evidence does not show which |
| recurrent hypersomnia, though it is very rare, | | | | came first-the arterial disease, or the tendency to |
| these people often sleep up to eighteen hours a | | | | sleep longer than average. |
| day and yet do not feel refreshed upon waking. | | | | Parkinson's is more probable or twice as likely to |
| Patients that suffer from Kleine-Levin Syndrome | | | | develop for those people that sleep at least nine |
| only wake up to go to the bathroom and eat. | | | | hours verses those that sleep on six hours or |
| When they are awake they tend to be confused, | | | | less. A study done by the National Institute of |
| lethargic and are indifferent to the world around | | | | Health, a U.S. government body studies 80,000 |
| them. Many cannot go to school, work or even | | | | nurses over 24 years and found that those that |
| care for themselves. The cause for Kleine-Levin is | | | | slept eight hours were 60% prone to the disease |
| unknown. This disorder affects teens more that | | | | while only 10% for those that slept seven. The |
| adults and in many cases disappears as | | | | most at risk were those that slept at least nine |
| mysteriously as it appears; often when patients | | | | hours a night or 80%. At the end of the study |
| reach their twenties. | | | | 181 developed Parkinson's. |
| Non-insulin dependent (type 2) Diabetes has been | | | | What they did find interesting was that night-shift |
| linked to those that sleep more than nine hours | | | | workers had lower levels of the hormones |
| and less than five hours a night by a risk greater | | | | melatonin and oestradiol. Some scientists believe |
| than 50% as a result of a study of almost 9,000 | | | | higher levels contribute to the development of |
| Americans. It is not known why longer sleep | | | | Parkinson's and a need to sleep may be an early |
| durations contribute to diabetes, although | | | | sign of the condition. Other symptoms include |
| increased time asleep to compensate for lack of | | | | tremors, stiffness and gradual slowing down of |
| sleep is one possible reason. There are more | | | | the body. Further research is needed to make a |
| studies needed to determine if longer sleep | | | | final conclusion how sleep is related to Parkinson's. |
| periods actually worsen the metabolic syndrome | | | | It's a matter of life and death as studies show us |
| which is a cluster of risk factors including high | | | | that people who sleep nine hours or more have |
| blood pressure, obesity and insulin resistance which | | | | higher death rates than those that sleep seven to |
| contribute to heart disease and stroke. | | | | eight hours a night. If you feel you are sleeping |
| Obesity affects those that sleep too little as well | | | | too much consult with your doctor as he may |
| as those that sleep nine to ten hours a night. | | | | recommend further test to determine why you |
| According to a report, 21% of those monitored | | | | over sleep, as too much sleep can be an |
| over a six year period were more likely | | | | underlying medical condition. Keeping a sleep |
| overweight when sleeping too much than those | | | | journal of your sleeping habits will help the doctor |
| that slept seven to eight hours even when taking | | | | determine if a sleep study is necessary. Sleep |
| in to account caloric intake and exercise. In | | | | experts recommend that having a sleep routine |
| another measure, nearly half of those who slept | | | | and getting seven to eight hours of uninterrupted |
| nine hours or more each night were physically | | | | sleep a night will keep us healthy and live a long |
| inactive during the day, which was associated to | | | | life. |