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Pain is not a word that’s often thrown into the conversation on poor sleep, even though poor sleep can lead to muscle and joint pain. Instead, a conversation on poor sleep ushers in thoughts of bags under your eyes, a cartoon animal taping his eyelids open, and sluggishness that’s only fixed with a cup of coffee. But those pesky bags under your eyes are the least of your worries when poor sleep is a nighttime ritual.

Poor Sleep & Pain Go Hand-In-Hand

Research proves that poor sleep:

• Lowers your pain tolerance
• Increases the intensity of your pain
• Increases your chances of experiencing chronic pain

What the above bullets mean is that poor sleep changes your resiliency to pain,

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Sleep is a five-letter word that you develop a push-and-pull relationship with as you age. As a child, you’re forced to go to bed, dragging your favorite tattered blanket across the floor as you and your footed pajamas reluctantly listen to who’s in charge. Your pre-teen and teen years come next, riddled with activities and responsibilities that make sleep look like your nemesis instead of your ally. From demanding extracurriculars to mountains of homework, sleep takes a backseat to the things in your life that bring judgment,

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The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reports that “1 in 3 adults don’t get enough sleep.” Why does it matter if you’d rather devote hours toward binge-watching Netflix and diving headfirst into the black hole of social media than sleep? An article entitled The Unstoppable Power of a Good Night’s Sleep reports that sleep deprivation leads you to:

• Be “more stressed, creating a higher risk of developing hypertension.”
• Be “more likely to experience weight gain.”
• “Have a higher risk of developing cancer.”

Benefits of Sleep

The before-mentioned article also points out how great sleep,

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Korean researchers recently published a study in the Korean Journal of Family Medicine, showing a connection between sleep duration and stress levels.

Researchers collected data for nearly 9,000 Koreans, measuring sleep duration, depression symptoms, and stress severity. They then divided the individuals into 7 groups based on how much they regularly slept:

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