How Sleep May affect Weight Loss

Does the amount of sleep you get affect whether or not you lose weight? Well at first this may seem like a bizarre question but is it as out there as it sounds. Just recently it would seem that some revelations have come to light. About the quality of the sleep that you get and the quantity also, what has come to light is it can affect the hormonal activity within your body.

David Rappoport, who is a director on something called the sleep medicine programme says that having poor sleep patterns, and sleep itself, can change things within the body itself, members of the medical profession have long since known that sleep affects the hormones within body.

The research was based around two hormones ghrelin and leptin, these two hormones tend to affect our appetites, and depending on the amount of sleep you either do or don't get will affect these two hormones. Have you ever had a rough night's sleep, and then the next day no matter how much you eat you still feel unsatisfied if that is the case. Then there is the proof.

Other studies that were done on people the ones, that had less sleep, were found to have higher ghrelin and lower leptin, levels and ate more food as a result of sleep deprivation which lasted over two days. Also people were monitored who had less than eight hours sleep per day, and it was found that these people were overweight as a result of this and had more body fat.

Time to get more sleep me thinks.

Via http://onhealth.webmd.com