Sentences with phrase «ghrelin levels went»

The end result: When sleep was restricted, leptin levels went down and ghrelin levels went up.

«When sleep is restricted to four hours a night, ghrelin levels go up and leptin levels go down,» says National Sleep Foundation spokesperson William Orr, PhD, president and CEO of the Lynn Health Science Institute in Oklahoma City.

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We don't go without food as frequently or for as long as we need to to get our gut hormones back to to a healthy set point (fasting leads to higher levels of ghrelin and neuropeptide Y, both of which are protective against depression.)

If you're losing sleep, if you're sleeping two or three fewer hours per night, you naturally have higher ghrelin levels for longer, which means you're naturally going to seek out food, which means you're probably going to pack on pounds.