Contents:
- Medical Video: Is Sleep Deprivation Making You Fat?
- What is metabolism?
- What are the metabolic changes that occur due to lack of sleep?
- 1. Impaired glucose metabolism, triggering diabetes
- 2. Make excessive appetite
- 3. Reducing the body's ability to undergo physical activity
- 4. Trigger obesity and sleep disorders
Medical Video: Is Sleep Deprivation Making You Fat?
Sleep is the only way that the body can rest completely and restore energy. Decrease in the brain's ability to think is the main impact when a person lacks sleep, but on the other hand also occurs various metabolic disorders of the body. Even though it happens slowly, it can have a serious health impact and be more difficult to eliminate.
What is metabolism?
Metabolism is the body's process of using energy, to carry out various functions in the body. Everyone's metabolic rate is different, can be influenced by physical energy used, brain work in thinking and concentration, or the activity of the thyroid gland. The higher the metabolic rate used when on the move, the longer it takes for the body to rest by sleeping. Usually, adequate sleep in normal adults is around 7 to 8 hours every night.
When you lack sleep, your body will adjust your metabolic rate, but this change will have an impact on metabolic activity in terms of both hormone secretion and the way the body burns calories. Although it occurs slowly, metabolic changes due to a lack of consistent sleep will reduce the physiological functions of the body and the quality of one's health.
What are the metabolic changes that occur due to lack of sleep?
Here are some metabolic changes when a person lacks sleep:
1. Impaired glucose metabolism, triggering diabetes
Lack of sleep can reduce the level of glucose tolerance or the availability of glucose in the blood, and increase the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in the blood. However, lack of sleep can also affect glucose tolerance in the brain and other body tissues. In a long time, sleeping less than six hours can trigger a decrease in glucose tolerance of up to 40% and this can lead to the development of diabetes mellitus.
2. Make excessive appetite
This is one of the triggers for obesity in individuals who do not get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation is known to increase hunger hormone (ghrelin) and reduce satiety hormone (leptin) to half of normal conditions compared to when getting enough sleep.
Changes in these hormones can begin to occur when adults sleep less than 8 hours. Lack of sleep also decreases a person's ability to deal with stress and increases the desire to eat foods that are sweet, salty, and high in carbohydrates. In addition, increasing the time to wake up and less time to sleep also gives a person the opportunity to eat more food.
3. Reducing the body's ability to undergo physical activity
The reduced level of physical activity when lacking sleep time is natural, because energy and metabolic rate decrease. Decreasing physical activity is also inseparable from the balance of the hormones leptin and ghrelin.
Decreasing the intensity of physical activity also determines calorie needs, so that less active moves can affect the balance of calorie intake and expenditure needs. In addition, a decrease in physical activity in someone who lacks sleep often is not accompanied by restrictions on calorie intake due to appetite, so it is easy to trigger obesity.
4. Trigger obesity and sleep disorders
Obesity is one of the triggers for reduced quality and duration of sleep. Moreover, obese people are more at risk of experiencing sleep apnea which is a sleep disorder that stops the rhythm of breathing while sleeping. As a result, a person will experience fatigue and feeling weak during the day.
Metabolic disorders such as excessive appetite and accompanied by a lack of physical activity when lack of sleep can lead to obesity, then this condition can trigger sleep disorders that will worsen the condition of obesity and again cause metabolic disorders. Therefore, overcoming obesity becomes very without improvement in the quality of sleep.
