What are the effects on my body due to the lack of sleep?

What are the effects on my body due to the lack of sleep?

Chris Idzikowski (Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: What happens to my brain when I sleep?; What happens to my muscles when i sleep?; What happens to my breathing when I sleep? and more...

The effects on the body due to lack of sleep are marginal at best when lots of sleep is missed it's different. Lots of people, when they become sleep deprived, ethically or even unethically for a long time, end up falling asleep. When one's looking at animal experiments, and there one finds ten to twelve days into sleep deprivation the rats will die. If you selectively deprive them of a particular stage they will take longer to die. The curious thing is that we're not absolutely sure of what the cause of death is. The animals lose control of their body temperature and their body temperature starts to go down. Or it could be a general septic reaction within the body to not being able to rest properly. There is this problem of distinguishing between lack of sleep and lack of rest. In some ways, I almost can't answer the question. It's not good for one, not getting enough sleep, but the precise reason why - we're not entirely sure.