Too Little Sleep? Here’s How It Messes with Your Weight and Blood Sugar

• Can’t sleep at night? Read to know the importance of a sleep schedule. 
• Struggling with weight gain? Try scheduling your sleep.
• Still facing trouble maintaining a stable blood sugar level?

Staying up late at night or not being able to sleep can affect your blood sugar levels and body weight and lead to other severe health-related conditions. The National Sleep Foundation states that an adult human should sleep for 7 to 9 hours every night. Disturbances in your sleep can hamper your metabolic system, affect your weight, and put you at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. 

Let’s talk about how a lack of sleep affects your body weight.

Metabolic Problems

Disturbance in metabolism can lead to weight gain and irregular blood sugar levels. Sleep regulates the processing of insulin but also hinders weight loss efforts.

Disturbed level of Hormones

An imbalance in leptin and ghrelin hormones can increase your appetite, making you crave high-calorie food and resulting weight gain.

Less Physical Activity

Sleep-deprived people may have a lazy day and decreased physical activity levels, resulting in weight gain.

Brain Functioning

Lack of sleep can be directly associated with brain functioning. Sleep and brain functioning go hand in hand. Making choices or picking up the good, healthy things gets on the troll.

Now let’s talk about how a lack of sleep can affect your blood sugar levels –

Problems related to insulin

Lack of sleep can decrease insulin sensitivity, affecting the body’s sensitivity to insulin. This leads to putting you at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Stress Hormone

Less sleep can lead to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol. High levels of cortisol can be related to blood sugar levels.

Inflammation in the Body

Sleep deprivation can lead to inflammation or oxidative stress and high levels of C-reactive protein, which can increase sensitivity to insulin and affect blood sugar levels.

Sleep Apnea

It is a disorder in which a person finds difficulty breathing while sleeping. It can be related to diabetes, especially type 2.

Make an effort to get to bed on time and sleep for at least 7 hours. This will have a good impact on your metabolism and blood sugar level.