Sleeping your way to better health

Thinking Nutrition

Sleep is like good nutrition for your brain. Poor sleep is like putting your brain on a junk food diet – literally. Now a growing pool of research is linking poor sleep habits and disrupted sleep patterns from shift work with adverse health problems that include obesity and metabolic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. In this podcast, I’ll look at the sleep-health connection and explain what disrupted sleep could be doing to your food habits, hormones and weight.

Links referred to in the podcast

• Meta-analysis of the effect of shift work on the risk of obesity https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/obr.12621
• Effect of sleep restriction on fat metabolism https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31484696
• Effect of sleep deprivation on food choices https://elifesciences.org/articles/49053

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