Skip sleep for a few days and you spike your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Tiredness makes you crave carbs and caffeine, which wrecks your sleep further. Your brain gets foggy and your emotions fall apart.
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Sleep is the key for so many things. Even just a few days of poor sleep increases your chance for diabetes, and I believe heart disease too. Cognitive capacity declines pretty quickly. I mean, it doesn't take too much lack of sleep for cognitive capacity to decline. It can contribute to emotional dysregulation. So, you know, people have a poor night's sleep, what do they do the next day? They probably eat more carbs because we seem to like carbs when we're tired. We drink more coffee or whatever stimulant we might consume, most likely coffee. Those 2 things in themselves disrupt the whole system throughout the day, probably screwing our sleep the next night. So it's a vicious cycle. It's just getting worse and worse and worse. Our diet gets worse because we're always tired. So we're eating the not healthiest foods. You have to increase our caffeine consumption because the dose is no longer working, which disrupts our sleep. You do all those things, you're definitely disrupting cognition. So you're not thinking as clearly as you could. You're emotionally dysregulated from all those things as well. And it's just hard to show up in a caring, loving way when you feel like crap and dysregulated and your mind's not working well. So if I was going to recommend anything to anyone at first, You're dialing your sleep.