Sleep Is Critically Important For Your Health For So Many Reasons, For Example…

Loss Of Sleep Increases Inflammation

Sleep disturbances are associated with inflammatory disease risks and increases in all cause mortality.

A review of 72 studies were evaluated looking at inflammatory markers in the blood: C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα).

CRP is commonly used as an indicator of inflammation (primarily) and a non-specific marker for many diseases. Generally the CRP higher the level, the higher the risk of these serious health problems.

IL-6 is another inflammatory marker also associated with disease processes.

Sleep and Inflammation Study

• Sleep disturbance was associated with higher levels of CRP and IL-6.
• Shorter sleep duration was associated with higher levels of CRP.
• Extreme long sleep duration was associated with higher levels of CRP and IL-6.
• No significant changes in TNFα were found with sleep changes.

CONCLUSIONS: Sleep disturbance and extreme long sleep duration are associated with increases in markers of systemic inflammation.

Increases in inflammation are associated with more pain and an incredibly large number of diseases.

In the study mentioned above, we see that sleep quality and quantity can increase your inflammation and has been shown to put you at risk of an early death as well as greater risk of other health problems and pain.

In another blog post, I talked about how the standard American Diet increases inflammatory blood markers and increase the risk of chronic pain.

Interestingly, these same markers of inflammation have been shown to be reduced with Chiropractic Treatment. 

In order to change our health and our family’s health – we have to look at health differently.

If you live in Texarkana area and are suffering with chronic pain or any neuro-musculoskeletal health problem, then contact Hagebusch Chiropractic.

We’re here to help.

 

Reference:

Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Jul 1;80(1):40-52. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.05.014. Epub 2015 Jun 1.
Sleep Disturbance, Sleep Duration, and Inflammation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies and Experimental Sleep Deprivation.

Irwin MR1, Olmstead R2, Carroll JE2.