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How Can Lack of Sleep Hurt My Relationship With My Partner?

How Can Lack of Sleep Hurt My Relationship With My Partner? (0:54)

Sleep is critical to our health and well being; if you get poor sleep regularly, it will impact your health and by extension, your relationship with your partner. Watch internist and sleep expert Carol Ash, DO, explain why sleep is so important.

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Lack of sleep we are finding more and more the research is showing us sleep is critical for your health and well being. So for whatever the reason if you are not sleeping well you really want to figure out how you solve it. So what could you possibly experience if you are not sleeping well at night? Well we know if you get less than six hours of sleep at night or if your sleep is poor quality you are at risk for cardio vascular disease and that includes hyper tension, which is high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes you will find that your premature aging and sleep for quality or not getting enough of it is been linked to many of the common disease we hope to prevent and treat.

Such as diabetes also increase weight gain, so your emotions will be more fragile and it will cause your relationship to deteriorate. If you are irritable you are just not going to be getting along.