Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Sleep deprivation
One of the things I always get told off for is my habit of staying up till wee hours in the morning. It started years ago, in not so good days. As my office is in the front and lounge is upstairs I stayed in the kitchen/dining room/study as long as possible to avoid going upstairs until no one was awake except me.
Then I started taking outside assignments and eventually got other offices. Late nights then were necessary to keep up with the work. When manual work changed to computer assisted there was no excuse to stay downstairs. By then it was also not necessary to avoid going upstairs so I transferred my PC and the desk in the lounge.
All my catching up on paper work and social interaction starts after 9 pm so I still don't go to bed any earlier. When my mum stayed with me for 5 months she tried to police my sleeping patterns. She would send me off at a reasonable time but I sneak out again once she went in her bedroom. LOL. She is my mother after all, so she knew my tricks and she would come out again too. Then we sit and talk till wee hours in the morning...lol.
In the morning I had to get up at 6.30 am, so for years I have survived on around 4 to 5 hours sleep each night.
No wonder I am stressed and mildly depressed, at times - I am told. No wonder my health and beauty (!) suffered - I am told. Then the cruch came. I am trying to lose some weight without success and I was sent this message.
"Research has shown that people who suffer from sleep deprivation are more likely to put on weight the results concluded that people only four hours a night were almost 75% more likely to be overweight, probably due to the effect on hormone balance.
Sleep deprivation lowers leptin, a blood protein that suppresses appetite and seems to affect how the brain senses when the body has had enough food. Sleep deprivation also raises levels of grehlin, a substance that makes people want to eat.
And it hurts "executive function" - the ability to make clear decisions, said Dr Eichling, a sleep and weight-loss specialist that offers health and weight management programs, especially for business executives.
"One of my treatments is to tell them they should move from six hours to seven hours of sleep" he said.
There may also be an ancient link between the ancestral brain of ancient man that caused the body to store fat during summer's short nights in preparation for the long nights and resulting food shortages of winter. This could form the link between sleep and weight increase.
Now in modern times sleep deprivation can be brought about by many different causes such as stress which in turn effects sleeping patterns which then in turn could trigger a prehistoric brain reaction, telling the bodies metabolism to store body fat."-
OK...I am convinced !!!! My New Year's resolution is to get more sleep. Now let me think. If I slept for 10 hours how much weight will I lose? LOL. Sorry, you are right. I promise I will try to be good. Good night, it's only 12.45 and I am going.
Then I started taking outside assignments and eventually got other offices. Late nights then were necessary to keep up with the work. When manual work changed to computer assisted there was no excuse to stay downstairs. By then it was also not necessary to avoid going upstairs so I transferred my PC and the desk in the lounge.
All my catching up on paper work and social interaction starts after 9 pm so I still don't go to bed any earlier. When my mum stayed with me for 5 months she tried to police my sleeping patterns. She would send me off at a reasonable time but I sneak out again once she went in her bedroom. LOL. She is my mother after all, so she knew my tricks and she would come out again too. Then we sit and talk till wee hours in the morning...lol.
In the morning I had to get up at 6.30 am, so for years I have survived on around 4 to 5 hours sleep each night.
No wonder I am stressed and mildly depressed, at times - I am told. No wonder my health and beauty (!) suffered - I am told. Then the cruch came. I am trying to lose some weight without success and I was sent this message.
"Research has shown that people who suffer from sleep deprivation are more likely to put on weight the results concluded that people only four hours a night were almost 75% more likely to be overweight, probably due to the effect on hormone balance.
Sleep deprivation lowers leptin, a blood protein that suppresses appetite and seems to affect how the brain senses when the body has had enough food. Sleep deprivation also raises levels of grehlin, a substance that makes people want to eat.
And it hurts "executive function" - the ability to make clear decisions, said Dr Eichling, a sleep and weight-loss specialist that offers health and weight management programs, especially for business executives.
"One of my treatments is to tell them they should move from six hours to seven hours of sleep" he said.
There may also be an ancient link between the ancestral brain of ancient man that caused the body to store fat during summer's short nights in preparation for the long nights and resulting food shortages of winter. This could form the link between sleep and weight increase.
Now in modern times sleep deprivation can be brought about by many different causes such as stress which in turn effects sleeping patterns which then in turn could trigger a prehistoric brain reaction, telling the bodies metabolism to store body fat."-
OK...I am convinced !!!! My New Year's resolution is to get more sleep. Now let me think. If I slept for 10 hours how much weight will I lose? LOL. Sorry, you are right. I promise I will try to be good. Good night, it's only 12.45 and I am going.
# posted by butterflyuk : 1/11/2005 02:29:00 am
