If you don't get a proper night's sleep, it can really screw up your metabolic health.

Let me read to you from this published paper.

The paper is called Roll of Sleep and Sleep Loss in Hormonal Release and Metabolism.

I'll link up to this paper, it's not written by me, it's written by a couple of researchers,

and I'll link up to it in the show notes.

Here's what it says.

Epidemiological studies in adults and children and laboratory studies indicate that sleep

restriction results in metabolic and endocrine alter nations, including decreased glucose

tolerance, decreased insulin sensitivity, increased evening concentrations of cortisol,

increased levels of grellen, it's a hunger hormone, decreased levels of leptin and increased

hunger and appetite.

Essentially, there's a very clear correlation between lack of sleep or poor quality sleep

and this metabolic disaster where your body craves food, stress hormone is elevated, blood

sugar is elevated, hunger signals are elevated, it's very, very difficult to keep your weight

in balance.

Now, when your metabolism is out of whack, that might show up as gaining weight.

For some people, they don't actually gain weight, but their body composition gets messed

up, meaning you gain fat, lose muscle.

This doesn't necessarily happen to everybody, it doesn't necessarily happen today, but

for anyone who's concerned about their health, for anyone who's focused on body composition

and or your weight, your sleep is really important.

Something I've struggled with for a long time, something I'm researching and learning about

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