Just Bein' Honest

Episode 28 : The POWER of SLEEP and your hormones with Katherine Brown

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Sinopsis

A short and sweet talk about how the POWER of SLEEP can directly influence the aging process, your hormones, and the rate at which you metabolize fat. Did you know: The results found that subjects who slept less than six hours a night over the course of this five years had a 32% gain in visceral fat, and this is compared to those who slept for more than six hours per night, and they had 13% increase on average. This is more than twice as much visceral fat accumulation due to sleep deprivation. Alright? Also, did you know that Aging + Sleep are directly correlated? I'm talking telomeres? What are TELOMERES?! Telomeres are our greatest biological marker that inform us how long we're going to live. And this is located- these are like the endcaps at the end of all of our chromosomes. And as we age, like it gets clipped off more and more and more until our- basically our chromosomes unravel, you know? Our DNA unravels, which doesn't sound good, but there was enzyme discovered that can add length back onto those te