“Several vital activities that occur during sleep help people maintain a good state of health and allow the body to function optimally,” they explain from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Therefore, getting enough sleep is essential for anyone, adjusting sleep hours to the life stage in which each one is, since a 5-year-old child will not have to rest the same amount of time as a 70-year-old person.
For many young people and adults, sleeping adequately is something that can be affected because they do not have enough time or due to other problems falling asleep such as stress. Whatever the reason, finding a solution by contacting a medical professional is crucial, since rest is a determining part for well-being.
In fact, there is a relationship between sleep and weight gain, as explained Boticaria García in a video for ‘Uppers Life’, via Instagram. The nutritionist and doctor of Pharmacy talks about how lack of sleep affects our body and mind.
How does lack of sleep affect weight gain?
«In addition to leaving us dragged by life, lack of sleep feeds our chichas. How do you do it? By several mechanisms: Firstly, hormones are altered; lack of sleep can alter the hormones that make us satiated and be less satiated and increase the hormones that make us more hungry», he explains.
And he goes on to detail: «Being sleepy, lack of sleep, can make As we store more fat, it can alter our metabolism and that we have less energy expenditure at rest. In other words, we sleep less and accumulate more fat. Sleeping little also causes us stress, and stress releases the cortisol hormonewhich can make us want to eat more sugar, also cause us to accumulate more fat and also alter the mechanisms of hunger and satiety.
Furthermore, he exposes something that he considers very basic: «When we are sleepy and when we are dragged through life, The last thing we want is to start exercising or take care of our habits. That is, there are many reasons why sleep directly and indirectly affects fat accumulation. The solution: 7 or 9 hours, It’s what science says“It can be done,” concludes expert Marián García, popularly known as Boticaría García.
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