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Q: How does sleep deprivation cause weight gain?
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Natralia Calmeze Sleep Aid contains natural ingredients to help relieve insomnia and sleeplessness. View profileSleep deprivation impacts our hormone levels which in turn promote weight gain:
- The body makes more cortisol- thereby promoting increased appetite, a craving for sugar, and weight gain
- The body makes more ghrelin- an appetite-stimulating hormone released mostly by the stomach. When ghrelin levels are up, people feel hungry
- The body makes more leptin - a hormone, released by fat cells, that promotes a feeling of satiety.
- The body makes more cortisol- thereby promoting increased appetite, a craving for sugar, and weight gain