A lack of quality sleep will affect every major body system and your mind, affecting your future health. Today one-third of adults do not get the recommended amount of sleep. Are you one of them? Sometimes I am, but I know how important it is so I make it a focus.
Sleep affects every major physiological system. People who only average 5 hours a night have a 65% increase in all-cause mortality. In other words, they have a 65% higher chance of dying for any reason compared to people who get sufficient sleep. Sufficient sleep would be considered 80% of the time you get good quality 7 to 8 hours of sleep. Unfortunately, we cannot push the limits all week and then recover on extra weekend sleep, the damage that is done daily when we shortchange our sleep, is not repaired by weekend binges. Although the binges do feel great! :)
A shortage of sleep will affect our anxiety levels, can cause depression, it will affect our digestive system, and create digestive problems, and we all know that is no fun. A lack of sleep can cause headaches and heart disease. Not getting enough sleep will affect our hormone levels impacting our reproductive process as well as causing weight gain.
Your immune system will be affected. Just one night of four hours of sleep will create a 70% drop-in natural killer cell activity. Killer cells are just what they sound like, they go after and kill the cells that cause illness. This is a huge compromise for our immune system, so if you did not get enough sleep last night be sure to take extra precautions to stay healthy the next day. If I don't get enough sleep I will take an Inner Defense or two the next day.
In another study where DNA was measured in people when they got 6 hours of sleep compared to when they got 8 hours of sleep, there were 711 genes with distorted activity when they only had 6 hours of sleep. This means a lack of sleep will affect our DNA expression, which will ultimately affect our health. We need healthy cells for future health.
1.6 billion people participate in an experiment twice a year and we call that Daylight Savings time. When we spring ahead there is a 24% increase in heart attacks and accidents and in the fall when we gain that extra hour there is a 21% decrease. Hmm, that should tell us something! I am so grateful Arizona does not participate.
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So many people shared great testimonies about Balance & Burn, a new product from Young Living, and I was very excited to try it. I’ll be honest—I imagined these “magic pills” would transform my body without much effort from me.
I took Balance & Burn for five months. During that time, it did help curb a lot of my overeating, and I stopped gaining weight. But I didn’t lose weight either.
Looking back, I can see that I didn’t make many changes to my diet beyond eating less, and I also didn’t increase my non-existent exercise. Those may have been important factors in why I didn’t see the results I hoped for.
Then I listened to a podcast by Howard Gurney, the lead scientist behind Balance & Burn. He talked about several reasons why some people may not see success with B&B right away. One factor that really stood out to me was high cortisol.
That sent me digging a little deeper. I started learning more about how cortisol works in the body, the symptoms of high cortisol, and how a body under too much stress may struggle to burn fat. When cortisol is produced too frequently, it can have negative health consequences such as feelings of fatigue, difficulty maintaining healthy weight, and difficulty maintaining optimal health of cardiovascular systems. So this month I am trying something different. I stopped taking Balance and Burn and started taking Cortistop as well as signing up for a step challenge.
Less than a week into my new routine I have more energy, I am sleeping deeper, and I have a renewed hope of achieving my goal of aging gracefully. Everyone is different and will respond uniquely to plant based support. Let's connect and see what habits or products will help you reach your goal.
