Study: Lack of Sleep Bad for Genes

Tuesday, 05 March 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Bad news for those of us who wake up before the sun rises. A new study, reported in today’s Washington Post, has found that a lack of sleep is bad for your genes. Chronic sleep deprivation, which is defined as getting less than six hours of sleep a night for a week, changes the activity of about 3 percent of our genes. Among the genes disturbed by sleepless nights are ones that control “metabolism, immunity, inflammation, and hormone response.”

SOURCE: Washington Post