If you sleep less than six hours a day, we have bad news for you

If you sleep less than six hours a night, you cause the same damage to your body as when you consume alcohol.

Lack of sleep leads to the risk of obesity, depression, heart attack and stroke.

However, new research indicates that lack of sleep can have dangerous consequences for the brain. If you are awake for 18 hours a day, the effect on the brain is the same as when you are drunk, according to the results of the latest study.

Also, lack of sleep makes you a bad and dangerous driver.

"Sleep plays an important role in the regulation of hormones that affect hunger, and lack of sleep increases appetite and leads to overeating, and later obesity," says neurologist Adrian Owen, reports Nezavisne.