Going to bed late and getting up early can be a common habit of adult men working in stressful jobs. But a new study has found that not getting enough sleep may lead to dehydration.<\/p>\n
Published in the journal Sleep,<\/em> the new research from Pennsylvania State University in State College examined the records of more than 20,000 young adults who were considered healthy. The participants answered questions about their slumber habits and provided urine samples so the scientists could look for two marketers of dehydration.<\/p>\n The team found that participants who got six or fewer hours of shut-eye nightly had higher concentrated urine than the participants who got around eight hours nightly. In fact, those who got fewer hours of sleep were 16% to 59% more likely to be dehydrated.<\/p>\n For participants getting nine or more hours of sleep nightly, there was no link to dehydration.<\/p>\n Although the research doesn\u2019t prove causality, they theorize that the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin might be to blame for the association between lack of sleep and dehydration.<\/p>\n \u201cVasopressin is released both more quickly and later on in the sleep cycle,\u201d says Dr. Asher Rosinger, one of the study\u2019s authors. \u201cIf you\u2019re waking up earlier, you might miss that window in which more of the hormone is released, causing a disruption in the body\u2019s hydration.\u201d<\/p>\n The team is calling for more research, including a longitudinal study that can look at dehydration at baseline and then again after a week without enough sleep.<\/p>\n Dehydration is about much more than a hangover after a night of binge drinking. It can cause fatigue and muscle weakness, and also impair cognition and impact your mood. Staying hydrated also improved your kidney health.<\/p>\n The researchers recommend that if you feel tired during the day, don\u2019t reach for coffee or an energy drink, but rather water.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going to bed late and getting up early can be a common habit of adult men working in stressful jobs. But a new study has found that not getting enough sleep may lead to dehydration. The Research on Dehydration Published in the journal Sleep, the new research from Pennsylvania State University in State College examined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,690],"tags":[864,724,693,865],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","category-wellness","tag-dehydration","tag-health","tag-sleep","tag-sleep-deprivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Theory on Why<\/h3>\n
Why Dehydration is a Big Deal<\/h3>\n