NEVER do this in bed (kills metabolism)... A shocking new study from the Annals of Internal Medicine shows a common mistake nearly EVERYONE makes in the bedroom is absolutely killing their metabolism. Not only does this mistake BLOCK your ability to reduce fat, it also gums up your hormones, drives up hunger, ages you rapidly, saps you of energy and damages your mental functioning. Whats worse, this mistake can force an otherwise healthy person to show the same type of insulin resistance and blood sugar problems as a full-on type 2 diabetic! Unfortunately, most people dont even KNOW they are making this mistake...and whats worse, the solution that fixes it in only 15 minutes a week isnt widely publicized. More on that in a bit. The mistake I am talking about is impaired sleep. WARNING: Dont fool yourself and think, oh, I can sleep later, I am too busy to sleep, sleeping doesnt make a difference. If you had a choice between exercise and sleep for your health and waistline, hands down, sleep is the winner...here are the 5 reasons why: ============================ Reason #1 ============================ Not getting enough sleep makes you RAVENOUSLY hungry and skyrockets your cravings for the worst food possible. How? Another study published in the Public Library of Science shows why. First, impaired sleep causes leptin, your Im full hormone to go DOWN by 15.5%. Second, it causes your Im hungry hormone to go UP by 14.9%. This sends your appetite wildly out of control -- you wake up starving and completely useless until you can binge on the worst foods. If that wasnt bad enough, impaired sleep gets you addicted to the WORST foods possible, driving your cravings for sugar, sweets and sugary carbs (breads, pasta, etc.) through the roof! ============================ Reason #2 ============================ Leptin, the Im full hormone, also controls your metabolism by influencing your thyroid hormone. So when you dont get enough shut-eye and leptin goes down, your thyroid also goes down, which causes your metabolic rate (how many calories you burn at rest) to absolutely PLUNGE! The result? More of the food you eat gets parked on your belly and thighs instead of being turned into energy to power you through the day. It gets worse... most people dont know that the majority of the fat burning process actually happens WHEN they sleep! During sleep, leptin triggers specialized calorie-burning fat cells (yes, you read that right) to burn up excess calories that you dont need and to release that energy as heat. So when you miss out on that deep slumber, you deprive yourself of the PRIME fat burning window where the inches start to disappear. ============================ Reason #3 ============================ Sleep deprivation also depresses how sensitive your cells are to insulin. If you are LESS insulin sensitive, you need to crank out MORE insulin to clear any excess blood sugar that may be floating around. And more insulin causes a double fat-making whammy by telling your liver to turn the food you eat into fat AND by locking fat in your fat cells so it cant be released to be burned. Adding insult to injury, your body perceives lack of sleep to be a threat to its existence, so it fires up your stress hormone cortisol, which has been directly linked to excess belly fat. ============================ Reason #4 ============================ Impaired sleep also damages your brain, cognitive abilities and mood. Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester, completed a study showing that when we sleep, our brain flushes out potent neurotoxins that are normal by-products of our waking activity. But if you let those by-products accumulate without taking out the garbage, VERY bad things happen -- like brain fog, impaired memory, wild mood swings and trouble focusing. Inflammation and oxidative stress also run rampant, causing even further damage to your brain and putting you at risk of developing age-related diseases such Alzheimers. ============================ Reason #5 ============================ You ever see someone who hasnt gotten a good nights sleep in a few days? They look totally ragged, wasted...and strangely...OLDER. Thats because lack of good sleep ages you rapidly by robbing you of the small window of opportunity during which your primary youth hormone works its magic. I am talking about growth hormone -- your master rejuvenation hormone that mostly only comes out at night, helping you re-build and repair and keeping you young. Aside from making your skin ragged, wrinkly and dry, lack of growth hormone also dramatically alters your body composition, shifting it to be MORE fat and less muscle -- NOT what you want! So heres my 4-step formula to getting more sleep and cranking up your metabolic engine: - Step 1: Go to bed 15 minutes earlier each week until you get to 7-9 hours of sleep. - Step 2: Make your bedroom completely dark, which maximizes your hormonal response. - Step 3: Calm down your brain before bed -- no TV, no internet, no exercise, nothing. - Step 4: Eat at least 3 hours before bed time -- anything less kills fat burning. WARNING: This formula wont boost metabolism and fight aging if you are eating the WRONG foods as most people unknowingly do. Your metabolism will come to a halt, your energy will plummet, your thinking will slow and the ravages of aging will set in regardless of how much shut-eye you get. For information on the foods to eat, please contact us at bodyinbalance101@gmail or call 619-368-3502
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:19:20 +0000
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