{"id":16472,"date":"2021-08-16T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16472"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:00:40","slug":"are-you-suffering-from-pandemic-induced-sleep-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/are-you-suffering-from-pandemic-induced-sleep-deprivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Suffering from Pandemic-Induced Sleep Deprivation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recent pandemic changed the entire world. Not being able to meet with friends, watch a movie, enjoy live music, and staying at home instead is definitely a sign of weird times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One particular change the pandemic caused is sleep deprivation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With most people staying at home, binge-watching movies, playing video games, learning how to cook, becoming obsessed with plants, and more the concept of sleep and sticking to a normal schedule got lost for some people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although many experts say that pandemic-induced sleep deprivation will go away once the world gets back to normal, you should probably get ahead and fix your sleeping habits now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>How can sleep deprivation affect your health?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continuous sleep deprivation can have fatal consequences, such as hypertension, obesity, depression, stroke, diabetes, and risks of getting a heart attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aside from the long-term effects, you might also experience immediate effects from sleep deprivation, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Excessive daytime sleeping<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Impaired memory<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stress\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lack of alertness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best way to avoid these adverse effects is to try to sleep better. However, it is easier said than done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Tips to improve sleep<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Stay away from phones and tablets when it\u2019s bedtime<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether you are scrolling your news feed on social media or watching videos&#8211; it\u2019s very easy to lose track of time when you fall into that rabbit hole.\u00a0<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Avoid eating large meals before sleeping<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eating a big meal can keep you awake longer and might even keep you up all night. But if you are starving, make sure you only eat small portions.<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Time management<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you need to finish something for work or study for a test&#8211; you might want to try sticking to a strict schedule and improve the way you manage time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Things might get back to normal soon, but it is always better to start improving your pandemic-induced sleep deprivation now&#8211; it\u2019s for your health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent pandemic changed the entire world. Not being able to meet with friends, watch a movie, enjoy live music, and staying at home instead is definitely a sign of weird times. One particular change the pandemic caused is sleep deprivation.\u00a0 With most people staying at home, binge-watching movies, playing video games, learning how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[1344,1345],"class_list":["post-16472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-covid-sleep-problems","tag-pandemic-sleep-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472","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=16472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}