Stress and sleep loss can each raise your stroke risk, even for young and healthy people, according to a new study released by researchers in the Netherlands. The scientists determined that for healthy young men whose sleep was restricted in the lab, their white blood cell count spiked as if their immune system had been [...]
Study: Sleep Loss Has Same Effects on Body as Physical Stress
July 2, 2012 | Posted by
Missing one night of sleep can have the same effects on a person’s immune system as experiencing physical stress, according to a study done in the Netherlands. The study, published in a journal aptly called Sleep, showed that men that were kept awake for 29 hours showed an increase in white blood cells called granulocytes [...]
