Often stay up late, can you affect your memory?

In modern society, staying up late has become a common way of life for modern people. Whether it is a student in class or an office worker, staying up late has become the normal life of most people.

A friend asked: Can you make up your sleep by staying up for a few days, finishing what you are doing, or entering the weekend holiday?

My answer is: this "long day and long night" way will not make up for it, but will disturb the body's biological clock, thus causing sleep rhythm disorder and insomnia.

This kind of "camel sleep" is more psychological self-comfort, rather than real sleep. If you really need to stay up late, the remedy can be to take a nap in time or go to bed in stages in time. Remember not to sleep with a camel with a long night and a long day.

First, in order to minimize the harm of staying up late to the body, we must first find out what harm it does.

Staying up late hurts yin. Huangdi Neijing records: nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter. It corresponds to the sun during the day and the yin at night. Nourish yang during the day and yin at night. If you stay up late at night, you can't raise this yin, or you hurt it.

Second, if you really need to stay up late, you should remedy it in time before hurting Yin and Yang, so as to minimize the harm of staying up late to the human body. There are the following remedies.

1, black bean medlar: black beans enter the kidney and look like kidneys. Known as "Kidney Valley" is well-deserved, it can not only nourish kidney yin, but also reduce deficiency fire in kidney, and can also treat oral ulcer and acne caused by staying up late. Needless to say, Lycium barbarum can clear liver and improve eyesight, benefit kidney and replenish essence, and nourish liver and kidney.

2. Longan meat: Longan meat can treat shallow sleep, insomnia and MUBI caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen. The main ingredient of the famous Yuling ointment is longan pulp.

3, tremella: white into the lungs, white food usually has the effect of moistening the lungs, so the best way to moisten the lungs is tremella, a common ingredient in the family kitchen, which can be made into cold dishes or tremella porridge.

4, Ziziphus jujuba seed: Ziziphus jujuba seed tea, into the heart, nourishing blood and nourishing the liver, peace of mind and nourishing the heart. Proper drinking of Ziziphus jujuba seed tea can effectively inhibit the activity of the central nervous system and make the body quickly fall asleep.

5. Astragalus membranaceus: Astragalus membranaceus soak in water, tonify qi and blood, tonify kidney and strengthen yang, tonify middle energizer, improve sleep and enhance human immunity.

6, yam: spleen and stomach, help digestion, kidney and essence, lungs and cough.

7. Nut foods: walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, sweet almonds, etc. These types have the effects of promoting fluid production, relieving cough, moistening lung, relieving asthma, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, regulating stomach and strengthening brain.

The above is to reduce the harm of staying up late to the body through diet therapy after staying up late for insomnia.

Number one: breathe 4-7-8. The method is simple: inhale for 4 seconds, then hold your breath for 7 seconds, and finally exhale for 8 seconds. After three cycles, you will feel sleepy. Do it twice a day for two months, and you will fall asleep immediately within 1 minute.

Second: Meditate and fall asleep. If you can't sleep at night, you might as well use meditation to help you improve your sleep. When you have insomnia, empty yourself and imagine yourself in a beautiful picture, which can be any place that makes you feel comfortable and relaxed, such as the prairie and the seaside. When you relax and indulge in it slowly, you will soon fall asleep. Stick to it for a while and get into the habit, and you can fall asleep immediately after 1 minute. This is also the way we often say that we can't sleep and count sheep.