As the New York Times, a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine is published, quoted studied 153 men and women for two weeks. In this study, the researchers examined the quality and quantity of people every day. Every five days, questioned by researchers in a quarantine area with a flu virus.
Respondents who slept less than 7 or 8 hours a day, three times as many colds as those who slept an average of 8 hours per day.
Sleep and immune system are closely linked. Body that the lack of rest is not a good immune system, because there is no chance for peace has. The body can not use the cells in the defense against viruses.
Previous researchers have also found that mammalian sleep is sufficient to ensure a high level of white blood cells that fight disease in the production function. To increase white blood cells, but not with red blood cells.
"Especially in sleep duration would be sufficient to increase the body's immune system and well protected," said researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Getting enough sleep is not only prevents someone from influenza, but also capable of handling. If the influence of metabolic systems of the body are exposed to disturbed so that the body has to adapt again, and getting enough sleep can be overcome.
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