Sci is about to embark on what she suspects will be two or three months with very little sleep, due to various personal and professional matters, and of course, blogging matters. And while she was discussing this with some friends, one of them brought up something very interesting:
She said “does anyone else feel COLD when they don’t get sleep?”
And it occurred to me that she was very right. When I haven’t been sleeping enough, I get COLD. I wake up freezing and end up bundling up in various thick, fuzzy sweatshirts and grasping on to mugs of hot coffee (though the coffee, of course, has a dual purpose). And so we started wondering, is this normal or anecdotal?
Being an awesome scientist herself, my friend hit the Pubmed, and a few moments later, she handed me this:
*pauses for a moment to put on fuzzy slippers*
Vaara et al. “The effect of 60-h sleep deprivation on cardiovascular regulation and body temperature”. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2009.
Filed under: Physiology/Pharmacology | Tagged: blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, sleep, sleep deprivation, temperature regulation | 27 Comments »
