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Three Ways Sleepless Nights Sabotage Weight - Loss Efforts

P Hamilton-Stubbs July 14, 2017

Not getting enough sleep makes losing weight nearly impossible.  Here are three  ways sleep deprivation  works against you and sabotages your weight loss efforts:

1. Impact of specific  areas of the brain that control appetite.

2. Changes hormones that trigger hunger and specific food cravings

3. Increases the blood level of endocannabinoid.

Not getting adequate amounts of sleep affects two areas of the brain that determine what you choose to eat.  The frontal lobe and primal brain regions.  The frontal lobe is responsible for complex decision making. The frontal lobe helps you reason “I am trying to lose weight.  Do I really want to eat all those calories found in French fries? “ Primal brain regions are associated with motivation and seeking rewards.  When the primal brain overrules the frontal lobe, you rationalize and go for the fries.

Sleep deprivation also changes  3 hormones related to hunger: ghrelin, leptin, and cortisol.  Ghrelin is secreted from the gut and stimulates the hunger centers of the brain.  Leptin  tells you to stop eating.  Leptin signals to the brain  “I have had enough to eat.  I can stop eating now”.  Sleep deprivation causes a increase in ghrelin and an decrease in leptin. Sleep deprivation increases cortisol levels. Cortisol causes you to crave foods.

Lack of sleep affects the endocannabionoid system.  The endocannabionoid system(ECS) is stimulated by endocannabionoids. Endocannabionoids affect the body in a manner similar to how marijuana affects the body.  Endocannabionoids increases appetite and cravings for sweets and fats.  Two types of endocannabionoid receptors have been identified.   Endocannabionoid receptors occur mainly in the brain but are found throughout the body.

Willpower does not overcome the effects of sleep deprivation.  People short on sleep crave sweet, salty, high caloric foods.  The best way to reduce your craving is to get the proper amount of sleep.  

According to the National Sleep Foundation adults 18-64 years old need 7-9 hours of sleep per night.  Older adults need 7-8 hours.  Teenagers and younger children need more than 9 hours of sleep per night.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2013/08/06/poor-sleep-junk-food/

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2016/04/lack-sleep-make-crave-junk-food/

https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/the-connection-between-sleep-and-overeating

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Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs is a nurse MD.  After completing her nursing education with honors at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio,                 Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs pursued her dream of attending a HBCU.  She matriculated at Meharry Medical College where she graduated in the top 4th of her class.

Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs completed an internal medicine internship, pediatric residency, adult neurology residency and child neurology fellowship.  In 1994 she accepted a position as one of only two physicians in the Sleep Disorders Center at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia.  In 1997 she resigned to start a Christian based medical practice, SCCA.

In 2006 she began studying the medicinal benefits of foods. Later she returned to the class room.   She studied herbal medicine at Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, Accre Ghana and is currently studying functional medicine.

In 2014 Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs expanded the services at SCCA and changed to name to reflect her goal for patient care: sleep and total wellness

Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs practices a blend of conventional medicine with the best of alternative medicine, integrative - functional sleep medicine.
 

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