I don’t think I’ve ever read about any medical research suggesting such a thing, but I suspect that there is a correlation between getting enough sleep and stomach health. This, of course, is just based on my own personal experience. It seems to me that I generally only have stomach problems right after I’ve gone a night or two without getting enough sleep. Surprisingly, that appears to have more to do with it than the kinds of food I eat.
When I was a kid, I always hated to go to bed – and hated to get up. I guess most children are like that. However, for me, this attitude carried over into adulthood. I try to set a strict bedtime for myself (especially when I know I have to get up at 6:00 a.m. to go to work the next morning), but I tend to resist it when that time comes. I can always find ‘better’ things do, like watching a ballgame, surfing the Internet, writing articles/blog posts, or enhancing my websites. These activities often result in my not getting to bed until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m.
This lack of discipline is something that will likely prove very costly to me in the long run. But even in the short term, I’m paying for it with stomach problems like mild nausea and diarrhea. And they tend to hang on until I come to my senses and get several nights of adequate sleep. But since I never seem to learn my lesson, this cycle is repeated over and over again.
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