Lack of sleep

Lack of Sleep May Zap Cell Growth, Brain Activity

"When we misalign our behaviour with our circadian clock, for example by creating jet lag, or by working as a night owl, we do not only disrupt normal physiological processes such as cycles of appetite and body temperature," said one of the researchers Albrecht von Arnim from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US.
 

 

"This work in plants suggests that we may also be interfering with a more fundamental cellular process, protein synthesis," Mr Arnim noted.