Re: [fast5] Why Sleep is More Important Than We Ever Thought

Friday, August 30, 2013

Re: [fast5] Why Sleep is More Important Than We Ever Thought

Thanks Tamara!

BTW that happens to fit nicely with my uric acid experiment, as yet another variable! Turns out that people who get less sleep ... their uric acid levels go up. It's known that gout is related to sleep apnea, but since gout is also related to obesity which causes sleep apnea, it's hard to know which is the chicken and which is the egg. But with someone sleeping less just as an experiment:

So it was back to the doctor to see what was wrong. The results were unmistakable: my levels of uric acid, a waste product in the blood that results from the body breaking down foods, had gone up — from 409 µmol/l (micromoles per litre) to 417 µmol/l and rising.

Uric acid is associated with diabetes — and gout. For the first time in my life, it seems I had gout in my little toe, according to the doctor.

But there was a longer term worry. Gout is a common form of inflammation.
Inflammation is linked to sleeplessness — scientists at the American Heart Association have found that when we sleep fewer than six hours a night, the levels of inflammatory substances in our blood can jump by a quarter.

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And if the inflammation didn't kill me, obesity would. I have been a muesli-munching vegetarian for three decades, which has helped to keep me on the dietary straight and narrow.

But within just a few days of sleeplessness I was overwhelmed by strange, powerful cravings and I found myself urgently spooning peanut butter and jam straight from the jars and into my mouth.

What was going on?

In fact, it's well known that your appetite hormones get knocked out of kilter by tiredness, wakeful nights and poor-quality sleep.

One study found that cutting sleep down to just four hours increased people's levels of ghrelin, a hormone that increases appetite, by 28 per cent after only two days

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1367811/Sleep-How-losing-just-hours-sleep-YEARS-life.html

On curing gout by curing sleep apnea:

http://www.freewebs.com/goutcure/

There are a lot of other factors that raise uric acid levels, with fructose being one of the big ones, along with certain species of fish and certain meats. But also some that lower uric acid, such as vinegar, lemon juice, egg whites, some vegies and fruits. What I've found is that if I stick to the "low uric acid foods" ... i.e. all the ones that seem to help gout patients ... my hunger level goes WAY down. Now I need to make sure to get enough sleep too!

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:25 PM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:

Why Sleep is More Important Than We Ever Thought

Not sleeping enough-less than seven hours of sleep per night-can reduce and undo the benefits of dieting, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In the study, dieters were put on different sleep schedules. When their bodies received adequate rest, half of the weight they lost was from fat. However when they cut back on sleep, the amount of fat lost was cut in half-even though they were on the same diet. What's more, they felt significantly hungrier, were less satisfied after meals, and lacked energy to exercise. Overall, those on a sleep-deprived diet experienced a 55 percent reduction in fat loss compared to their well-rested counterparts.

More here:
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/why-sleep-more-important-ever-thought-195000601.html

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