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Lack of sleep may cause dehydration.

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Adults who sleep just six hours per night usually tend to be dehydrated than those that sleep longer, in response to recent research published online within the journal Nov. 5, 2018. to sleep. The findings suggest that among the symptoms of insufficient sleep, comparable to fatigue, fuzzy pondering and morning headaches, could also be resulting from dehydration.

Researchers checked out the danger of dehydration in nearly 20,000 American and Chinese adults. In each populations, those that reported sleeping six or fewer hours had the next risk of dehydration than those that slept seven to eight hours consistently. The researchers hypothesized that this finding may reflect the nocturnal rhythm of a hormone called vasopressin. During sleep, the pituitary gland within the brain uses vasopressin to signal the kidneys to retain fluid within the body as an alternative of excreting it through urine.

Normally, the pituitary gland releases more vasopressin later within the sleep cycle, so if an individual wakes up early, less of the hormone reaches the kidneys to conserve water. The best natural treatment is to get more sleep. But in case you can't do this, drink at the least one glass of water while you first get up.