A new infographic was recently developed to demonstrate many of the points that we make regarding the dangers of sleep deprivation. If your goals for this year included losing weight, and living healthier, we are certain that sleep is key.
In the book Lights Out written by TS Wiley, she points out three big risks among others of not sleeping enough.
1. Obesity
Obesity, according to common wisdom, points to a high-fat diet. But fat consumption, weather saturated or unsaturated causes no release of insulin. There's no possibility of storing fat in fat cells unless insulin opens the receptors, and only eating sugar can make that happen. That's why Type I diabetics who have no insulin die emaciated. Obesity is simply a different symptom of the same syndrome that causes everything else that plagues modern man. Lack of sleep.
When it comes to obesity and Type II diabetes, it really does add up; too much light equals summer, summer comes before winter, so putting on a fat coat from an appetite controlled by the light, which indicates what season it is, makes sense. If you just continue that summer behavior, no matter what the real season is, because your global positioning system Is confused by artificial lights and long days, inevitable Type II diabetes also seems reasonable to assume.
The infographic above shows that you lose 14.3 pounds per year for every hour that you sleep more instead of stay up to eat and watch TV.
2. Cancer
Studies have linked three types of cancers- breast, colon and prostate to obesity. The New England Journal of Medicine "indicated" that it is, in fact, not how much fat women eat, but how fat women are that affects their potential for breast cancer. We would call that a big clue if researchers understood how we get fat. The authorities are now able to recognize obesity as a symptom (not a cure) of another disease. If there is a link between obesity and cancer, and obesity is directly caused by elevated insulin levels from sleep loss, then insulin must be implicated in the rise of cancer. If high-carbohydrate diets are responsible for consistently elevated insulin levels, then the coming of electric lights and processed foods should correspond perfectly with the increase of cancer. It does.
The infographic above shows an additional 200% of risk of cancer from less sleep than what is necessary.
3. Heart Disease
What's happening to the biggest clock in your body when the light never sinks into the sunset? When the fuel that feeds your heart never varies and the panic perceived by your head never ends? So many things you can't even imagine. For one, when you don't sleep, your heart dies. Just like that.
Your heart has a seasonal metabolism, just like your brain. Your summer heart runs on straight sugar (glucose) and your winter heart runs on free fatty acids. Because it's always summer in our hearts, our arteries never get a chance to use up all the cholesterol. In addition, your serotonin keeps building, leading to ultimate serotonin resistance, which gives you high blood pressure on the way to blood clots, and- as long as the lights shine- your cortisol stays up. And you know what chronic high anything means.
The infographic shows a 100% higher risk of heart disease if you get less than 7% sleep per night.
On January 27 in 1880 Patent #223,898 was granted to Thomas Edison, for "an electric lamp for giving light by incandescence". Yay for Edison, not so much for us, since the beginning of electric has been the beginning of the end for us.
The last fact shown on the infographic is that if you are sleep deprived you are 20% more likely to die 20 years earlier than if you were sleeping the necessary amount of time. Consider the facts suggested, and sleep on it.
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