Most Replayed Moment: The Link Between Weight Gain and Sleep! Are Sleep Trackers Harmful Or Helpful?

Uh mentioned earlier that when people don't get enough sleep the chance of obesity And weight gain increases. How how does that happen? What's the mechanism? So w there are probably many mechanisms, but one of the the ones that is best understood is that we know that when you're sleep deprived, or indeed when your sleep is disrupted by anything else like

for example, sleep apnea, there are changes that occur in terms of hormone levels of of uh hormones that regulate our appetite. and our satiety. And so even a single night of sleep deprivation can result in a dramatic increase in your calorie intake. uh overnight. There have been some studies done, for example, in um nurses. So uh there was a study done that followed up nurses for eighteen years.

and they looked at their weight and how much they slept on a regular basis. And what they found is that those Nurses that were sleeping less than about six hours a a night on a regular basis. First of all, started off at the beginning of that eighteen year period. uh at a slightly higher Wait.

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