9 Reasons Why Your Hands Are Shaking

Being very sleep-deprived can exacerbate your body’s normal tremor so that your hands wind up shaking noticeably.Sleep deprivation can heighten your body's usual tremor, Pinky Agarwal, M.D., a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Washington, tells SELF.This is what experts often call an enhanced physiologic tremor, which is when your body’s normal inconspicuous quivering becomes more noticeable for some reason (as opposed to your body shaking perceptibly because of an underlying health condition, which we’ll get to in just a bit).