Lack of sleep can make you fat

It turns out that poor sleep, such as from chronic insomnia, disrupts one of our hunger hormones, which can make us fat.
There are many factors that will run down the body, and make you at risk of obesity. Sleeping allows the body to repair itself and combat the day’s stresses. When you feel tired or sleepy, that’s your intelligent body telling you what it needs. Pushing your limits by taking caffeine or other stimulants can cause the body to ultimately break down. Sleep deprivation affects the body much like stress, increasing cortisol levels, distorting thyroid hormone levels, and elevating glucose and insulin. All of these factors contribute to WEIGHT GAIN.

The research explores how lack of sleep can impact appetite regulation, impair glucose metabolism and increase blood pressure.

Sleeping is not a time waster either. When we sleep, the body gets rid of waste products, circulates minerals, vitamins and hormones, and allows the body to naturally defend and repair itself from potential diseases. Since toxins are stored in fat cells, allowing the body to detoxify itself each night as you sleep will improve you ability to lose weight.

The studies revealed how signals from the brain, which control appetite regulation, are impacted by experimental sleep restriction. Inadequate sleep impacts secretion of the signal hormones ghrelin, which increases appetite, and leptin, which indicates when the body is satiated.

"Future research should determine whether efforts to improve sleep can also help prevent the development of these diseases or improve the lives of patients with these conditions".