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If sleep deprived, does it make you more susceptible to catching diseases such as flu / noro-virus because your immune system becomes not as strong?
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Yes: In normal sleep, delta phase sleep phase in adults is when important tissue recuperation and regeneration occurs. Measurable amounts of human growth hormone (hgh) are released during this phase of deep sleep that during interrupted or deprived sleep fails to occur. That is why particular sleep disorders need to be clearly diagnosed and appropriately treated.
Answered 1/28/2013
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