Is the link due to?
1. Lack of sleep messing up metabolism and hormones or body recovery?
2. Lack of sleep being an additional problem caused by something else (Stress, overwork, bad diet, etc.), thus lack of sleep becomes more of a sign, and less of a cause, of obesity creating problems?
3. The behavior of those that lack sleep? They’re stressed out, impulsive, prolly work shitty jobs with no free time and therefore gravitate to, or are only provided, fattening junk?
4. Any combination of the three?
I read an article saying night owls die earlier and it just goes on to say “We ALL know night owls drink beer and alchohol, which causes problems” like I’ve never drunk in my life, that wasn’t a genuine study. Is there a similar thing here?
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Hi, I’m a big human and recently diagnosed with sleep apnea. I’m almost 40yo and I only just learned the intrinsic union between sleep and your hormones / metabolism.
Being fat can cause poor sleep. But poor sleep can also cause you to get fat.
Though not a direct answer to your query, this is very relative. When you sleep and can’t breathe well, your body is effectively starving for oxygen. Whenever your body starves for anything it needs to survive, it goes in to emergency mode to salvage and hang on to everything it can in order to survive. This starving of oxygen also affects your cortisol hormones. Which triggers fight or flight responses cause your body is being attacked by not getting what it critical needs. Cortisol also PACKS on fat cells, again, your bodies way of hanging on to everything it can to protect itself just in case you never get calories again.
So when you’re starved of oxygen your brain does all kinds of things, it slows metabolism to help your body systems run on dormant mode (packing the fat cells full while using them way too slowly)
There is also ample evidence that if you don’t get good sleep (thru all healthy sleep stages) your body never fully rests and it’s burning out your ability to perform daily repairs to your metabolism / cell turnover / hormone cycles.
Also, you can totally have apnea as a thin ‘healthy’ person. Folks often don’t realize they have apnea cause they’re asleep! You might wake up multiple times a night thinking you have to pee or roll over, when your body was actually jolted awake by you choking.
Case in point, I lost 25lbs the month I started using my CPAP. I didn’t diet or make any changes beyond I was breathing better during my sleep cycles. I have more energy, and I can tell that my hormones are regulating more (periods have been like clockwork since I began)
Wild that they don’t educate us better in how imperative sleep and sleep health / apnea is until it’s already a big problem.
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