Sleep is crucial for both physical and mental health, yet it’s often overlooked. Prioritizing sleep can improve your mood, boost energy, and support metabolism, making it just as important as the food you eat and the exercise you do. When combined with the Metabolic Balance program, quality sleep helps stabilize hormones, support digestion, and enhance overall wellbeing, leading to a happier, healthier lifestyle. Make sleep a priority, and watch how it transforms your health!
Sleep plays a vital role in keeping your metabolism healthy! Lack of sleep can disrupt hormones that control hunger and appetite, making it harder to maintain balance. So, it’s important to prioritize rest for a balanced, energized body. How many hours of sleep do you aim for every night?
Although nutrition is key for weight loss, sleep is also an important component to weight loss and overall health and wellness. A good night’s sleep is crucial for maintaining a healthy metabolism. When you don’t get enough rest, it can slow down your metabolic rate and disrupt the hormones that regulate hunger and energy. This imbalance can lead to increased cravings and reduced energy, making it harder to maintain a healthy weight. So, when you prioritize sleep, you’re helping keep your metabolism running efficiently to support overall health, including balanced energy levels and better digestion.
Sleep disorders – The new widespread disease (?)
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And that’s a good thing, because sleep is vital. However, almost every second person nowadays suffers constantly or occasionally from sleep disorders, with women being disproportionately affected.
A person can survive several weeks without food, a few days without fluids, but after just 24 hours of sleep deprivation, the brain begins to suffer. Sleep is vital because important regenerative processes take place during sleep. In addition, sleep has an enormous influence on health, vitality, vigor and body weight.
Lack of sleep makes you sick
More and more studies show that restful sleep plays a central role in health. Those who sleep poorly or too little not only struggle with poor concentration and a drop in performance during the day, but can also suffer from various mood disorders that manifest themselves as muscle tension, headaches and stomach aches, and weaken the immune system. During sleep, the muscles relax and recover from their work. Those who suffer from chronic sleep disorders do not allow their body to rest, the regeneration phases are shortened or even do not occur at all. The body is overloaded and the risk of developing obesity, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular problems and many other diseases increases.
Causes and triggers of sleep disorders
One of the most common causes of sleep disorders is stress and overburdening at work or in private life. However, also stressful life events such as a bereavement in the family, disputes, separation or unemployment can temporarily cause sleepless nights.
But also illness, medication, alcohol, unhealthy foods – especially in the evening – can turn out to be real problems stealing sleep.
Only with a balanced lifestyle, combined with a healthy diet, is the body able to produce sufficient amounts of the sleep hormone melatonin.
The sleep hormone melatonin
The messenger substance melatonin, which regulates our day-night rhythm, plays a particularly important role in healthy sleep. This means that melatonin, which is produced by converting serotonin in the diencephalon, is increasingly produced as darkness falls and fatigue sets in. However, melatonin is only secreted in the dark. Light stimuli prevent its formation! Therefore, TV, tablet, PC and cell phone should be banned from the bedroom.
With increasing age, less and less sleep hormone is produced, but this can be influenced. With a healthy lifestyle and diet that provides plenty of natural vital substances such as vitamin D, B vitamins, magnesium and zinc, you can support the body in the production of melatonin.
The happiness hormone serotonin, the basis for melatonin
Melatonin is a natural messenger that is also found in small amounts in some foods, such as pistachios, cranberries, tomatoes, corn and oats. But even if you don’t eat these foods every day, the body also has the ability to produce melatonin itself. However, it needs the appropriate building blocks to do so.
Melatonin is formed in the pineal gland of the brain from the precursor, the happiness hormone serotonin. Serotonin not only wakes us up and puts us in a good mood, but also forms the basic substance for nocturnal melatonin. To produce serotonin, the body needs sunlight and daylight as well as the essential amino acid trytophan, magnesium, vitamin D and B vitamins.
Tryptophan-rich foods include cheese, meat, legumes, nuts and eggs. Abundant B vitamins are found in meat, fish, and also potatoes and whole grain products. Magnesium is abundant in nuts, oatmeal and green vegetables, for example.
Can Metabolic Balance counteract insomnia?
In fact, many participants who eat according to their Metabolic Balance nutrition plan report that they sleep significantly better or even that they need less sleep and can still start the day fit and well-rested. On the one hand this is due to the fact that with the individual nutrition plan all nutrients and vital substances are ingested, which the body needs for the production of the body’s own hormones, such as serotonin, and at the same time the body and the organs are being eased. Furthermore, participants who follow their Metabolic Balance nutrition plan feel much more balanced than they did before the change in diet. As a result, stress levels drop, i.e. stress hormones such as cortisol or adrenaline are being produced less and thus do not inhibit the formation of serotonin.
Sleep tight and wake up feeling bright! Did you know bad sleep disrupts hormone regulation? Which can lead to increased appetite, cravings for unhealthy foods, and decreased metabolism. A good night’s sleep promotes a healthy metabolism, supports optimal hormone balance, and enhances overall well-being, so it’s important to prioritize quality sleep and aim for 7-9 hours per night. Give your body the gift of a good night’s sleep and wake up ready to conquer the world!
Did you know that getting enough quality sleep is essential for good health? March 18 is World Sleep Day, and it’s a great opportunity to focus on improving your sleep habits.
Some tips for better sleep include establishing a regular sleep routine, avoiding caffeine completely after lunch and alcohol too! And creating and maintaining a relaxing sleep environment can also really help.
Getting enough restful sleep is important for our overall health and well-being. Poor sleep can lead to a weakened immune system, mood changes, and weight gain. Aim for 7-9 hours of sleep each night and remember to avoid devices before bedtime too!
Please prioritize sleep as it’s such an important part of your overall health and well-being!
Sleep. It is something we all need but many of us don’t get enough of it. But getting enough of it is so important for our overall health.
When we’re getting our zzz’s, our body rests, recovers, and recharges. It builds muscles, repairs cells, and allows the brain to form memories and improves recall.
But did you know that what you eat, and when, affects how you sleep?
“It might seem obvious why a double espresso after dinner might disrupt your sleep that night — as might a greasy, late-night cheeseburger with fries. However, the connection between a noontime salad and your slumber is somewhat less straightforward — but it’s an important one” – Ana Krieger, MD, MPH, Medical Director of the Centre for Sleep Medicine, New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine.
Learning what to eat and when through Metabolic Balance will directly enhance your sleep, increasing vitality and performance.
Sleep. It is something we all need but many of us get too little of it! Sometimes we need a little reminder of how important it is to help us get back on track. Sleep is not like money, although we can “catch up” on sleep after a busy week, we can’t bank sleep hours like we can money. If we don’t sleep enough each night there is not a true way to make up for it after the fact. This is why it is so important to get at least 7-8 hours of sleep each night. In addition, getting enough sleep is important for overall health. While we sleep, our body uses that time to rest, recover, and recharge. It builds muscles, repairs cells, allows the brain to form memories and improve recall. Additionally, it can boost your immune system and improve your heart health. Sleep just like exercise and nutrition is vital for your overall health and helps keep your body healthy and strong!
For tips on how to improve your sleep or sleep schedule check out these websites below!
https://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/getting/overcoming/tips
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/sleep/art-20048379
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-hygiene/healthy-sleep-tips
Whether we call it beauty sleep or sleep for health reasons, we need sleep to regenerate body and mind. If sleep is disturbed, for example due to sleeping disorders with frequent or early wake-up, the next morning is tough. We feel tired and dull and are not as efficient during the day as usual. Long-term sleep disorders can lead to exhaustion and even depression.
Many factors can unbalance the day-night rhythm. Stress levels, stressful thoughts, the bed situated on an interference zone (e.g., electromagnetic or geological fault zone), are only some of the reasons. Another essential factor is proper nutrition. For example, it helps to eat lighter food in the evening and at least three hours before going to bed. The organism should not be burdened with tough digestive work during the night. This makes it much easier to fall asleep.
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