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What are the symptoms of oversleeping?
According to the National Sleep Foundation, excessive sleeping may lead you to experience the following symptoms:
- Productivity issues.
- Low energy during the day.
- Symptoms of anxiety.
- Memory issues.
- Extreme sleepiness unresolved by napping.
- Extreme fatigue unaffected by how much you sleep.
What are the negative effects of sleep?
After several sleepless nights, the mental effects become more serious. Your brain will fog, making it difficult to concentrate and make decisions. You’ll start to feel down, and may fall asleep during the day. Your risk of injury and accidents at home, work and on the road also increases.
Are there any benefits of oversleeping?
Research found that people who slept longer had more calcium buildup in their heart arteries and less flexible leg arteries, too. Your best bet is to shoot for 7-8 hours of slumber each night for peak health benefits.
Can sleep make you fat?
Here’s why that’s bad: When your body doesn’t respond properly to insulin, your body has trouble processing fats from your bloodstream, so it ends up storing them as fat. So it’s not so much that if you sleep, you’ll lose weight, but that too little sleep hampers your metabolism and contributes to weight gain.
Can oversleeping be harmful?
Oversleeping can be harmful. Oversleeping (usually defined as more than nine hours a night) has previously been linked with health problems like diabetes and obesity – yet few consider eight hours to fall into that bracket. Sure enough, the National Sleep Foundation (UK) recently published new guidelines, produced with a team of medical scientists,…
What are the dangers of sleeping too much?
You’re at higher risk of heart disease.
What are the signs of sleeping too much?
You’re experiencing brain fog.
How to stop oversleeping?
A few more things that can also help you fight this battle and stop oversleeping are: Take a cold shower when you get up or just splash cold water on your face. Get a loud alarm clock and place it where you will have to get up to turn it off. Try to reduce caffeine intake in day hours.