You might sometimes wake up hungry. This is because lack of sleep affect your eating patterns and can cause weight gain. Check out the article we found at Articles Mercola.
There are many theories as to why skimping on sleep makes you eat more. Including by increasing the “hunger hormone” ghrelin and decreasing the hormone leptin, which is involved in satiety.
The featured study authors suggested, however, that sleep deprivation may also increase your desire to seek out food as a reward.
On a typical day, your 2-AG levels tend to be low overnight then rise slowly until they peak in the afternoon. But in those who were sleep deprived the levels stayed elevated until late in the evening.
Correspondingly, when the participants had less sleep they reported increases in hunger and appetite and were less able to inhibit their junk-food consumption. They ate snacks with more carbohydrates along with close to double the amount of fat and protein compared to when they were well rested.
Another revealing study showed that one night of sleep deprivation led to impairments in insulin sensitivity similar to those caused by six months of eating a poor diet.
Insulin resistance, by the way, drives not only weight gain but also chronic diseases like cancer. This may be part of the reason why men who had trouble sleeping were found to be twice as likely to develop prostate cancer compared to those who slept well.
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