If You Don’t snooze, You Could Lose..

I have been seeing a lot on the subject of sleep lately!  Kind of made me sleepy!  

In a perfect world, they say your body needs 8.6 - not 8 - hours of sleep a night!  In my world I am lucky to get 6 - 7 hours!  They say, if you miss this timing, you’ll promote fat storage and the risk of lowering you immunity.  Secondly, if you don’t honor this sleep cycle, you’ll also miss your detox cycle by 2 hours.  This means your toxins keep stocking up, causing aches and pains, high blood pressure plus suppressed detox pathways in the kidneys and liver.  

Sleep deprivation and obesity are often bedfellows because your body cycles are in sync with the rising and setting of the sun.  If you don’t allow this to happen, your endocrine system begins to panic and stress out!  When stressed out, certain hormones, primarily cortisol, are released.  When cortisol courses into your system, the pancreas gets involved, perceiving all the excess cortisol to be sugar, and hence begins an attempt to drive the excess sugar into the cells.  Since there’s no room in the cells, the cortisol is shunted into the fat storage tanks!

OK - I feel like the most stressed out, sleep-deprived person in the world!  With a really healthy diet and a great workout program, it is all manageable!  Try and stay in a healthy daily routine and you might not have to buy stock in Ambien! I would love to wake up everyday as beautiful Sleeping Beauty!

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Yesterday’s wisdom - never go to sleep angry!  Now they say - get some sleep!  Sleeping on it until the next day - you might actually see things clearer!  Sleep is a powerful antidote to stress!  GOOD NIGHT!