Metabolism and SLEEP 😴

TAKING ACTION:

✅Do you struggle with sleep (quality or quantity) during the holiday season? If you want your metabolism to work best for you, I encourage you to make it a priority this season!

✅As always, share your weekly wins below! Let’s celebrate! 🎉

Okay, okay, I know it’s Friday and we’re used to having loads of celebratory fun on Fridays 😉; however, I’d be remiss if I didn’t talk about this subject—how your sleep affects your metabolism. Since the holiday season often brings along late nights and a lack of sleep, it’s something we need to talk about. We’re still going to celebrate—after we talk about sleep and metabolism. 😉

If you’ve been around long enough, you already know that sleep is high on the totem pole when it comes to your ability to burn fat. It’s critical when it comes to your health and fat loss journey, and a lack of sleep negatively affects your metabolism in the following ways:

😴 Your basal metabolic rate is affected by your thyroid hormones. Without getting too science-y 🤓, your thyroid is responsible for hormones that boost metabolic rate. Sleep affects your thyroid and its hormones. In short, poor sleep can lead to poor thyroid health. Poor thyroid health leads to poor metabolism.

😴 A lack of sleep also negatively affects metabolic function by altering the way your body processes glucose. When you’re sleep deprived, it is difficult for your body to regulate blood sugar, which in turn negatively impacts your metabolism.

The research regarding metabolism and sleep is ongoing, but what I know for sure is that sleep is of the utmost importance. It affects our hunger/satiety hormones (leptin and ghrelin), as well as our stress hormone (cortisol). All of these impact our ability to burn fat, so at the end of the day, get more sleep this season if you can. 😉

🎉 Friday Fun Fact: Humans are the ONLY mammals willing to delay sleep. All other mammals and animals seem to be a little wiser than us when it comes to honoring sleep. No wonder humans are so stressed!

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