It is said that nothing is easy for adults except getting fat.
But there are many reasons for getting fat, diet, exercise, stress… But there is a reason for getting fat, I really didn’t expect it.
That is —– if you don’t get enough sleep, you will gain weight!
Well-researched data show that people who slept 6 hours a day gained significantly more weight than those who slept 7 hours, and people who slept only 5 hours Sleeping for 6 hours will add more weight.
Now I finally find out why I am always sleepy and hungry every night?
Why does not getting enough sleep cause an appetite?
Some people will ask, since staying up late will make you fat, why are there always people who stay up all night but “make people haggard for Iraq”?
Sorry, the weight these people lose by staying up late is valuable muscle in the body, not fat, and may also put you into a “fat-prone” physique.
Lack of sleep for a long time causes the body to stimulate the adrenal glands to secrete adrenal hormones, a stress hormone that causes the adrenal glands to enter a fatigue-prone state. state, and the body’s fat will continue to accumulate, it will be difficult to reduce.
If you want to lose weight smoothly, sleep can prevent the secretion of stress hormones.
At the same time, if people lack sleep, they will increase appetite hormones to speed up secretion and reduce appetite suppressant hormones, which will make us more eager to eat high-calorie foods food.
Therefore, sleep less and you might overeat and gain weight the next day!
Chronic lack of sleep also carries these risks:
1. Endocrine disorders
The impact of endocrine health on the human body is very large.
Especially for female friends, if endocrine disorders are caused by staying up late for a long time, the incidence of gynecological diseases will be significantly increased, especially gynecological tumor diseases that are extremely harmful to health. .
2. Decreased sleep quality
For friends with better physical fitness or younger age, staying up late to work overtime or to relax and go to bed frequently, these views and practices are very undesirable.
Staying up late can seriously disrupt the biological clock, causing the body to become overexcited, which can easily lead to severe insomnia.
In addition, staying up too late will greatly increase the frequency of palpitations, dreams, and easy waking, and significantly reduce sleep quality. When the quality of sleep is too low, no matter how long you sleep, you can’t really get your body to rest effectively.
Under normal circumstances, it is best to go to sleep before 10 o’clock at night, which is very helpful for improving sleep quality and restoring energy and physical strength smoothly.
3. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
In the process of staying up late for a long time, the burden on the heart will be significantly increased, and the abnormal contraction of blood vessels will be stimulated.
In this case, the chances of developing blocked blood vessels will be significantly increased. If it is left unchecked for a long time, it is easy to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the later stage, which will cause serious harm to physical health.
Especially for those who have entered middle-aged and old age, due to the increase of age and the decrease of blood vessel elasticity, if you continue to let go of the bad habit of staying up late at this time, it is easy to suffer from heart failure due to damage to the health of blood vessels. Stroke, stroke and stroke crisis.
4. Increased negative emotions
People who often stay up late have a much higher amount of negative emotions than ordinary people.
Especially for office workers who are busy with work and under pressure, if they stay up late, it is very likely that excessive fatigue will lead to lethargy and lack of energy. , memory loss, unresponsiveness and other problems.
Over a long period of time, the accumulation of negative emotions will not only have adverse effects on physical health, but even lead to mental illness in severe cases.
You can’t make up for lack of sleep!
Some people stay up all night and come back, usually to comfort themselves—-it’s okay, the big deal is to make up for sleep the next day!
Actually, people who sleep less than 7 hours a day can still maintain strong physical strength. Such people are really rare, and they are just a few people with extraordinary talents.
If you occasionally stay up late, you can make up for it by taking a nap, but if you stay up all night for a long time, you won’t be able to make up for it.
Most people need 7-9 hours of sleep. No matter how much you practice, lack of sleep means lack of sleep. Don’t deceive yourself and call yourself a “sleep-less elite”.