Sleep factors in on weight and aging
Not getting enough sleep can make you fat…and possibly old.
A new study showed that not getting enough sleep hurts the ability of fat cells to respond to insulin efficiently. Bottom line of this small study: you retain lbs when you skip ZZZs.
And according to study co-author Matthew Brady when seven thin, young, healthy twenty-somethings got only 4.5 hours of sleep, after just four days, “it is the equivalent of metabolically aging [participants] 10 to 20 years.”
Impaired Insulin Signaling in Human Adipocytes After Experimental Sleep Restriction: A Randomized, Crossover Study. Josiane L. Broussard,et al Annals of Internal Medicine, 16 October 2012 Vol 157, No. 8 http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleID=1379773