India, Oct. 28 -- Sleep is often postponed to make time for everything you couldn't fit into the day earlier. After the long, hectic work hours, nighttime becomes the only time for leisure, to chat, catch up on shows and long-pending calls. But before you realise, you are left craving for more: one more episode, one more hour of scrolling, one more reason to stay up.

This trade-off will weigh heavily on your health. Sleep is one of the key pillars of good health. Cutting corners on it doesn't just leave you groggy in the morning; it affects your major organs, like the brain and heart, too. HT Lifestyle reached out to experts to understand how poor sleep affects health.

Dr Ritu Jha, director and HOD of Neurology at Sarvodaya Hospital, Se...