Sleepwise Sleep Clinics and Therapy
Sleepwise provides professional sleep therapy services and advice, including clinics, one-
Sleep & Stress
Consultants
since
1999
Sleepwise Sleep Clinics and Therapy
Sleepwise provides professional sleep therapy services and advice, including clinics, one-
Sleep & Weight
There is definitely a relationship between poor sleep and being overweight.
Being overweight contributes to increased snoring, difficulties breathing and, if obese, more serious conditions such as sleep apnoea. Getting comfortable in bed can be another issue for overweight people.
However, research has also suggested that not getting enough sleep can actually make you fat. And this can become a vicious circle. Hormones produced during sleep normally stop -
It works like this:
Short sleep time affects leptin and ghrelin, and test results from people getting 4 hours per night or less will often show lower leptin levels and higher ghrelin levels in the blood plasma. With sleep deprivation, low leptin and high ghrelin can give powerful dual signals that the body has an energy deficit, thus increasing food intake. It’s a double whammy hormone hit that makes you want to eat more. The brain is getting signals that the body is starving, so you crave food.
Losing Some Fat
Remember, losing fat is more important than losing weight. You want to get slimmer and it’s the fat that needs to go. Starvation diets and many fad diets can cause damage and muscle loss, sometimes even damage heart muscles. Also, feeling hungry can keep you awake and cause the problems described above.
We suggest that a good starting point for your plans to lose some fat are these two web sites run by Sleepwise associates:
Our research continues.
If you want to give us feedback on the above please send by email to associates@ sleepwise.co.uk