Lack of sleep increases the risk of developing chronic diseases by 20%.

These conclusions were made by scientists from University College London. They interviewed seven thousand people aged 50-70 and analyzed their medical records for the last quarter of a century. The increased risk of developing chronic diseases may be due to the fact that due to lack of sleep, brain cells do not have time to repair the damage to the genome that accumulates during wakefulness. Also, due to lack of sleep, failures in other recovery processes may begin.