Turn Back the Clock for Better Health

Yesterday, we turned back the clocks and everywhere people got helathier. I heard a stat on the radio the other day that when we turn back the clocks the incidence of heart attacks on that day are cut in half. Why would this be? Last week we talked about the importance of sleep for balancing your hormones. When we turned back the clocks everyone got an extra hour of sleep and since most people chronically undersleep that extra hour makes a big difference for the overall health of our society. So what happens when we undersleep. When we have not rested enough our bodies are under stress which causes a release of cortisol. If we chronically undersleep then our bodies are always under stress which means chronically elevated cortisol. Chronically elevated cortisol makes us insulin resistant, and also ramps down your thyroid. This creates the perfect environment for gaining fat and losing muscle. When we become insulin resistant our bodies also lose the ability to absorb magnesium properly and magnesium is needed for relaxing sleep and smooth funtioning of the heart muscles. So by adding an extra hour of sleep to everyones day we helped a large number of people balance their hormones better and this is the key to better health and body composition. So the take home lesson from all of this is to get more sleep!

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