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Introduction

What is sleep? Sleep can be described as a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended. “Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together”.  This famous quote from Thomas Dekker really interpret why every people need enough sleep. A good quality of sleep ensures body, mind and also mood to refresh. Sleep also essential for resting cardiovascular system. Researchers have found that people with normal or high blood pressure experience a 20 to 30 per cent reduction in blood pressure and 10 to 20 per cent reduction in heart rate. Therefore people cannot deny the role of sleep in their lives. What will happen if people lack of sleep? Are there any serious impacts that might influence life in future?

Body paragraph

A)    One of the prime effects of sleepless is it can affect our physical state

1)      Poor skin texture, puffy eye bags, fine lines and dark circles. In long term can cause skin to age faster compare to well-rested individuals.

i)        According to Dr. Howard Murad (2008), lack of sleep contributes to the continuous release of cellular water that exposed skin to look older than they should be.

2)      Gaining body weight due to over consumption of food  than usual and potentially lead to obesity

i)        Conducted by few researchers at the University of Chicago (2010), both male and female respondents consumed fairly large calories from snacks and carbohydrates after five and a half hours of sleep compared to eight and half hours mainly caused by the increasing of ghrelin, a hormone that excites appetite, and decreasing of leptin, which indicates repletion.

B)    Lack of sleep can also affect people’s mental state

1)      Less efficient in thinking and learning affect one’s attention, alertness, concentration, problem solving and decrease their ability to memorize things.

i)        By referring to Siebern, (n.d), when people are in drowsiness state, they often unable to remember and kept lose things frequently.

ii)      Based on Siebern, (n.d), moreover, they are lack of ability to concentrate due to drowsiness will lessen the memory. 

2)      A person will feel more depress because feel more stressed and mentally exhausted

i)        Researchers from University of Pennsylvania (1997) note that, the symptoms such as stressed, angry, sad and mentally exhausted happens when a person has less than five hours of sleep a night for seven consecutive nights.

C)    Other consequence of lack of quality sleep is health.

1)      Without proper sleep, people will have high tendency to get heart disease because body produces more stressed hormones than the usual.

i)        Lauderdale, (2008) has found that the risk of coronary artery calcification, which happen because calcium deposition in the coronary arteries that narrowing blood vessel, will be lower by 33 per cent, only with one extra hour of sleep per night.

2)      Cancer because of the over exposing to lights can prevent the release of melatonin to cancer fight.

i)           Researchers from Stanford University, (n.d) suggest that a cancer can be avoid if a person get a good sleep since citing melatonin is released during sleep.

ii)          The researcher also added that cortical production (involved in regulating immune system activity and act as vital players in recovery also increased during sleep.

Conclusion

As conclusion, lack of sleep in daily life might lead to other serious consequences such as negative effect on health. People might get exposed to heart disease and more badly, cancer if they do not have enough sleep.  Moreover, lack of sleep also associates with mental problems such as less efficient in brainwork and also increases risk towards depression. Furthermore, without a good of quality sleep, people tend to have poor skin texture and increase in body weight. It is essential to have a proper sleep to ensure we can give the best of our performances for the next day. Based on quotes by Karl Kraus “He who sleeps half a day has won half a life” indicates that person have a happy undisturbed sleep will always succeeds in everything they do.