American scientists described a chain of processes linking chronic lack of sleep with weight gain. As expected, the main role in the mechanism of this connection is played by hormonal disorders, provoked by a lack of sleep, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka.

Net According to researchers at the University of Chicago, people who limit the length of their sleep by 18 percent increase in comparison with the norm the formation of the hormone leptin (reducing appetite and eliminating hunger) and a 28 percent increase in the content of the somatotropin-releasing factor in the blood that exerts the opposite act.

As a result, after a sleepless night, a person experiences a constant feeling of hunger that does not correspond to the actual degree of saturation of the body. With regular lack of sleep, this leads to the appearance of extra pounds.

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