Lack of sleep is comparable to alcohol intoxication

every five hours of wakefulness can be correlated with the effect of alcoholic beverage in terms of how the brain works, reports Voxy. So, if a person stays awake for 20 hours, then it can not function fully as a person exceed the established acceptable dose of alcohol, in which you can sit at the rul.

So, after a sleepless night driving is strictly prohibited. Due to the lack of sleep the body increases the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol. Few drops the temperature of the body, and the immune system ceases to operate at full capacity. But the brain in such a situation has the same effect as if intoxicated. From the point of view of the task at hand-eye coordination, every waking hour extra corresponds to the concentration of alcohol in the blood of 0, 004%. So, people who slept less than five hours, a loss of coordination. Most often, this problem facing young people, because they do not experience lack of sleep. Then, according to statistics, in this age group are cases of sleep disorders. And the number of people with this type of problems is increasing.

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