A lack of sleep can have a serious effect on your brain’s chemical balance in a similar way to cannabis, research from the University of Chicago discovered.
So there could be good reason for those horrendous stomach grumbles we experience every time we’ve had an extreme lack of sleep.
The researchers conducted a study on 14 men and women in their 20s, who were invited to spend two four-day sessions at the university’s clinical research centre.
They controlled the time in bed spent by the volunteers, making sure that they had around 8.5 hours of sleep a night on one visit. On another visit , they were only… Read the full story