We just passed our holiday season, and holiday is often noted as period for weight gain. Eventually, weight gain can lead us to….obesity. Today, the problem of obesity is so alarming that several millions of USD is being spent on researches on the best way people can avoid it with minimum effort. Recently, our First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House is gearing up for a campaign to end the obesity epidemic and raise the health in this country. She really concerned about this problem because currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight – and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Now, you may wonder: what can cause obesity? Well, one of the main cause of obesity epidemic is a hormone called cortisol.
Cortisol is a hormone, produced by the adrenal gland when the body is under stress. Cortisol is released as part of your daily hormonal cycle, but it can also be released in reaction to perceived stress as part of the body’s fight-or-flight response that is essential for survival. Cortisol helps your body more effective at producing glucose from proteins, and is designed to help quickly increase the body’s energy in times of stress. But stress–both physical and emotional-–can lead us to a constant state of excess cortisol production. Excess cortisol stimulates glucose production. This excess glucose then typically is converted into fat, ending up as stored fat in your body.
But, never fear, though: Growth Hormone is here. Also known as the “fountain of youth”, growth hormone is the single most effective compound your body can produce to affect both fat loss and muscle gain. The more you produce, the faster you’ll lose fat and build muscle. It’s just as simple as that. Now, in addition to that awesome little fact, growth hormone is going to whoop cortisol’s ass and help you burn belly fat. But how can we get our body to produce more growth hormone?
You’ve probably heard that one of the ways to reduce your cortisol levels is to get more sleep. That’s something you hear on nearly all the medical TV shows. What you don’t hear is the reason. You see, sleeping is one of the main ways by which your body produces growth hormone. Or, saying it another way, while you're asleep is your body’s primary opportunity to produce growth hormone. And, as I stated previously, growth hormone is one of the main hormones that reduces the effects of cortisol.Sleep more and you’ll produce more GH.Produce more GH and you’ll have less cortisol. Got it? But there's a problem….
You see as we get older, our need to sleep relatively decreased. Recently, according to a study conducted by the Sleep Journal and published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society, the time spent eight hours for sleep by older adults will continue to experience significant declines with age. Older adults often wake up and spend more time while awake than those of younger adults. Deep sleep which is the most important stage of sleep to restore energy, decrease in duration as you age, the study said. And this could be a problem because as I mentioned before, sleeping can help your body produces more GH, and if you lack of sleep you would still have high cortisol level and your obesity problem won't solved. So, what are we gonna do now? Is There any solution to this? Of course there is.
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